Search - Border Blasters :: Sun Session

#3 CD on the Freeform American Roots Chart, June 2011! In the tradition of so many musicians - famous and obscure - who have walked through the doors of Sun Studios in Memphis with a few hours of studio time booked, The Border Blasters laid down these eight tracks one evening in that hallowed room. Beneath the photos of Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Howlin' Wolf, Elvis Presley, even Bono, vintage mics were set up and they did it acoustic and live, with only Matt the engineer as the audience. These are mostly single takes, says Border Blaster Todd Jagger, We had just finished our last showcase performances at the International Folk Alliance Conference so we just decided to go to Sun and knock 'em out. I think we did a second take on two of them. Then we got a rough mix, bought a t-shirt and took a cab back to the hotel. It was a little intimidating, honestly, to be in that room where so many iconic songs had been recorded, so much music history made. If you told me there were ghosts there I'd believe you. 'Little Red Rooster' kept going through my head. For 'On The Borderline' I used one of the studio guitars, a Martin that Marty Stuart had written 'If found return to [some address]' in Sharpie on the top. Probably a story there... This is how music used to be done. This is how it should be done, I think. It's real an unpolished. There's an immediacy, an intimacy, a personality - and I think that's a good think. Hope you do, too.