is a series and a podcast that looks at the stories behind some of the songs we're playing on our new music discovery stream, . On this special episode, we're doing things a bit differently.
A prominent recording studio in North Carolina's indie rock scene was destroyed by a fire in January. was home to early work by Superchunk, Polvo, Archers of Loaf, Pipe, Dexter Romweber -- even Ryan Adams recorded a project there. But now studio owner Jerry Kee is trying to figure out what's next.
A group of local musicians launched an and to help the studio get back on its feet. 吉彩网网站's Eric Hodge took a drive to see what's left of this piece of North Carolina's music history. During his visit, Mr. Kee fondly reflected on many of the artists that had recorded at the studio over the years.
Jerry Kee on Tift Merritt 鈥淪he had a great band, and we recorded pretty much live. It鈥檚 fun seeing how well she鈥檚 done.鈥�
Jerry Kee on Superchunk 鈥淢ac was in one of the first bands I recorded called Wwax. When Superchunk got together they recorded their first album really quick. They鈥檙e great people.鈥�
Jerry Kee on working with Ryan Adams 鈥�...you could tell he was a songwriter, he was good. The songs more or less just had one verse, he hadn鈥檛 really learn to flesh stuff out, but he was good.鈥�
Jerry Kee on Dex Romweber 鈥淚 recorded his big band, the New Romans, and that was a ton of fun. He鈥檚 always been a hero of mine.鈥�
Jerry Kee on Polvo 鈥淭hey definitely were in a place all their own. When I first met them I wasn鈥檛 sure what was going on...the tuning was weird, the guitars were cheap and funky, but they knew what they were doing.鈥�
Jerry Kee on The Kingsbury Manx 鈥淚 love that group. They had a nice trio of songwriters, so one person would take lead and they鈥檇 all flesh out and play different instruments.鈥�
Jerry Kee on John Howie Jr. 鈥淗e was in the first band I recorded. The band was called Light In August and he was the drummer. I didn鈥檛 realize he was so young at the time.鈥�
Listen to the episode here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=662HpVHFg6I
