The August Hour Music Page

We’ve finally started uploading some of our music production from the past few years. Many would say it’s about time.

So far there are only a few MP3 samples, but we’ll keep uploading songs as we dig them out and get them formatted into MP3.

So far the page features music from The Silver Shore, The Daybirds and myself. It’s mostly there to give you an idea of our music production chops and to introduce you to some music you might not have heard before.

It’s always nice to revisit your first love — and music is definitely mine. Being a recording engineer/producer is a lot like being something between a midwife and a high-school guidance counselor. Midwifery is the term commonly used to describe the art of helping a woman give birth. And a high-school guidance counselor is there to help kids turn into adults. As a parent you do the best job you can at strengthening and perfecting your kids and then you release them into the world where you know others will project themselves onto them. For any real songwriter or composer songs are children and music production and engineering is all about helping the songwriter parent their babies. Because sometimes people can be unfair in their projections — or downright rude — you hope you’ve done the best job possible of preparing the songs for this state of vitality and exposure.

So yeah, it’s fulfilling work. And it can be rewarding. Sometimes I hear songs I’ve worked on and think “you know, there’s some real genius in there” and I am just thankful to have had the chance to help with them.

It all sounds good anyway.

enjoy.