I just finished recording Lil’ Alice Spencer and Her Monkey Butlers. It was my first purely engineering project. I loved it, I only had to worry about the sound and didn’t have to juggle that with bass playing duties.

Here is a description of the band from Alice’s website:

Li’l Alice & Her Monkey Butlers perform jazz and blues from the 1920′s & 1930′s, as well as original material. The band is led by singer Alice Spencer with Mark Rubin on tuba (Bad Livers, Klezmer Brass All-Stars), ‘Pops’ Bayless on ukulele and banjo (Shorty Long, Asylum Street Spankers), Joe Cordi on piano (Giant City Sextet), and Ben Saffer on clarinet (Rubinchik’s Yiddish Ensemble, Victrola).

I’ll post clips once we have it mastered.

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L.A. was great. I think we cut the song that will be the first single for the record and another two that are also really strong. The magic happened at the House of Blues Studios which is located at a mansion in L.A. It used to be Tito Jackson’s house and studio. Luckily there wasn’t that much of the creepy Jackson family vibe left over from that time.

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