| Am I Alone in This? Bill Bottrell in the January 2001 New Settler |
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recording studio, because I hadn't been working in the commercial recording industry-which was part of why I moved here: I wanted to work locally. But a project came to me that I was really intrigued with, and so I decided to do it, and that triggered in me a need to build a studio again-which I'd had in LA and had left. So I got this building-rented it from Oscar . . . The old brick building at the south west of the barely-there town of Caspar. At one time it was the company store, the very soul of Caspar-where the sun sets, where the cows grazed behind. BILL:So I rented this building, which was the only masonry building around. Masonry is good for a recording studio, |
especially when it sits apart this way, because you don't have to do any soundproofing, which is extremely expensive. You can just sort of move in and use it as is-and that's what I've always done with a recording studio. We set about to fix it up-it was a bit rundown. We fixed it up, with all local contractors and recycled almost all the wood we used from the rafter beams and the old paneling that was in the other room, the exception being the new windows to the west. I took my family to Alabama to work on this project I'd taken on while this place was being built. It was an album by Shelby Lynne. It's still out there doing pretty well. I worked for a year on it writing it and producing it, and halfway through, we came back here to Albion and it was finally my whole family, finally moving here. And the next day, two assistants and I were working here installing |