I’m heading back to Catherine North Studios to record another set of songs with producer Michael Chambers this month! Marshall Block at RealiiReel Studios and David Mosher from his home studio will be doing some tracking for me too.
Recording dates are Sept 19-Sept 21st and tentative release date is Halloween. This will be a full band creation that features Stuart Tucker on drums, David Mosher on fiddle and maybe mandolin, Michael Chambers on bass and piano, Hannah Fralick on vocals, and possibly more.
Current songs being demoed include:
- Empty Cup
- Love and Be Proud
- I Know I Made a Mess This Time
- I Will (If Your Plane Is Late)
- I Just Want to Be Your Last
- Ohio (Neil Young cover)
I’m thinking four will be on the EP. It’s going to be a whirlwind of three days of recording and then a day or two of mixing. My goal is to kick this EP out in a week!
Hi everyone, how was your return to school last week? It still feels weird not to return to the classroom. I left my teaching position last spring to pursue music fulltime, and it’s been a wild summer. When the school year approached, it felt strange to not be preparing my lesson plans and preping my classroom. I’m missing everyone in the hallways, but I have to admit, being able to focus on music right now is an amazing gift.
This focus has helped me reach some goals: I’m debuting my full band–Mike Vial and the Great Lake Effect–featuring Stuart Tucker (drums) and Kevin Vines (bass) at a Holly, Michigan showcase. Then, we will be playing some full band shows throughout the fall. The talented David Mosher (mandolin, fiddle) will be accompanying us at select shows too! If those gigs weren’t enough, I’m heading back to Catherine North Studios in Canada to record a third collection of songs at the end of the month. David Mosher, Stuart Tucker, and Michael Chambers (producer at CNS) and others are playing on the record.
So while I won’t be grading papers this month, I have quite a bit of homework for myself. Anyways, I hope you all are doing well. Thank you to everyone from Manistee who recently signed up for my newsletter at the Port City Street Fair.
Hope to see you soon,
Mike Vial
Vialator Song Club. Once a month, I’m sending out a newsletter that will be including free song downloads, gig schedules, contests for tickets, stories, guitar lesson features, interviews with bands, and other musings. The Sept. newsletter will feature a free download one of the demos for the third EP being released on Halloween.
You can subscribe below:
I’ve been reading through my American Songwriter magazine for five days, and just realized I’m IN it! You can find me in the “Tweet Smarts” section of the Letters page. So cool. (God how I love this magazine.)
Photos from my show with Jeff Pianki on the Grand Princess were posted at Livingston Daily. There are some hilarious photos of my in musical stance, hair flying everywhere and guitar pedals being stomped. You can view them here:
I’m in photos 14-32 of the set.
Special thanks to Gillis Benedict from the Daily Press & Argus for capturing the photographs.
Photo by GILLIS BENEDICT/DAILY PRESS & ARGUS
