Program #246 (June 4 at 8:00 p.m. and June 5 at 3:00 p.m.)
Grace Pettis epitomizes the term singer/songwriter. As a singer, her voice is both powerful and beautiful, and she uses it like a fine arts painter to color and craft her songs.
From an early age, Grace was encouraged to speak her mind and to express herself musically. Words and music were the family heirlooms she inherited from her parents, a traveling songwriter (Pierce Pettis) and poetry scholar (Dr. Margaret Mills Harper), who were divorced by the time she was a small child. As a result of that separation, she was raised in two very different parts of the Deep South : the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, and the backwoods of Mentone, Alabama.
Muddy Bottom Blues Program #246 (June 4 at 8:00 p.m. and June 5 at 3:00 p.m.) Grace Pettis epitomizes the term singer/songwriter. As a singer, her voice is
Rupert Neve, the Father of Modern Studio Recording, Dies at 94
His equipment became the industry standard and influenced the sound of groups like Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Chicago and the Who.
Rupert Neve in 2009 at a mixing console at the Magic Shop recording studio in New York City. His revolutionary consoles like the Neve 8028 (not shown here) had a huge impact on the music industry.Credit.Joshua Thomas
Published Feb. 19, 2021Updated Feb. 21, 2021
When the Seattle grunge band Nirvana recorded their breakthrough album, “Nevermind,” at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Calif., in 1991, they used a massive mixing console created by a British engineer named Rupert Neve.