musician, studio engineer, blind handyman
I don’t remember what we originally called this collection but it has been renamed. Most of this album was done in 1989 over at my old house on a Fostex eight-track tape recorder. I did the rhythm stuff on the first six tracks and then moved all of that to tracks 7 and 8. This left me six tracks for leads and vocals. This day and time that sounds impossible but that is what I had so I did it. At that time I had no compressors or peak limiters so everything had to be very carefully mixed. Fortunately the room and my monitor were pretty good and it all came out well. I think it is the best stuff I have ever done but, that’s just my opinion.
After we got recordable CD’s we went back and put all the stuff I did on little 45 records many years ago back in Houston on them and renamed all of it, Phil, Thru the Years. We also added a couple of Christmas songs at the end with the Harris sisters Jovina and Juanita singing with me. Give a listen and let me know what you think. Here are samples of all the songs. Hear a previewEarly in this decade karaoke got to be a big deal in clubs all over. Maybe it got big before that but I was not aware of it. Anyway, my friend Leonard Peterson bought a collection of karaoke songs and I copied them and bought some myself. These were of good quality and I thought well, I could do an album with these. Point being, here is the album and I called it, American Classic Country after a show I did on the local radio for several years.
I do an introduction with each song and give a little history about the original artist who made the song famous. My wife says I should separate the songs from the introductions and, maybe someday I will do that. But for now here is the album. There are a couple of songs I had tracks on done here in my studio but for the most part these are karaoke cuts. Somehow I left the first one out but I will give the title anyway. Hear a preview