From My 4-track Cassette Days: “Highway 61 Revisited”
Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan, recorded by Richard Hunter all instruments and vocals by Richard Hunter I’ve been transferring my cassette tape archives to digital media, and I’m finding stuff I like. It’s amazing to remember that in the 1980s cassette tape (or for…
Overdubs, overdubs
Worked tonight on overdubs for “Blue Future” songs including “Mercy Me,” a 12-bar minor blues, and “Disconnected Blues,” a big strutting blues with a harp running through an envelope filter driving the tune. I’m liking a horn section of 2 harps, at least one pitch…
Stay tuned for the solo performances from SPAH 1997!
Got the live cassette tape recording of my solo performance at SPAH 1997 (among other things) from Randy Singer, and I’ve started to converting the tape to 16 bit WAV files. The set I played there was about 30 minutes long and included 10 or…
Two days left to help fund Richard Hunter’s “Blue Future” on Indiegogo!
Two days left to contribute to Richard Hunter’s “Blue Future” on Indiegogo! For $10 you can order a digital copy of “Blue Future”; for $20 you get that plus a signed copy of “The Lucky One” CD; and for bigger contributions, well, check it out…
Songsimian.com posts their review of the 4 best (in their opinion) amp modelers
Songsimian.com just posted a review of 4 top amp modelers, one of which is our own favorite, the Digitech RP500. That’s the one we used for every harp track on our record “The Lucky One;” check out the player above to hear what it sounds…
The Fender Mustang in the Studio: Like, Perfect
I had the opportunity last weekend to use my Fender Mustang III amp in the studio for the “Blue Future” sessions. In a word, it was perfect for recording a wide range of amped and clean tones. (I wouldn’t mind if it weighed ten pounds…
Counting Down to the “Blue Future” Sessions This Weekend
I’m leaving for Philadelphia on Friday night, April 13 2018. Saturday morning we–me plus Mike Brenner, Mark Schreiber, John Cunningham, and engineer Pete Rydberg–begin recording the tracks for “Blue Future.” I’ve been working, working, working on these sessions. Practicing harmonica, thinking about the instruments for…
Reminder to self: Back It Up
A couple of nights ago I left my laptop in a hotel bar. I realized it the next morning when I picked up my laptop bag and realized that it was a bit light. For some reason I did not immediately freak out, notwithstanding that…
Should I release “Blue Future” in digital-only form?
Tell me if you feel like it: do you think I should release “Blue Future” in digital and physical (like a CD) form, or just digital? I notice that a lot of new cars don’t have CD players in them. Do you listen with a…
Thanks to everyone who contributed to our IndieGoGo campaign to fund “Blue Future!”
The campaign to fund my next record, “Blue Future,” has concluded at Indiegogo.com. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this project–we raised about $750, which will be used to help pay for mixing and mastering the record. Every penny helps!
