The recording studio has been undergoing some changes and upgrades in the recent days. We’ll post more as things take shape.

Meanwhile you can visit the recording studio and take a look around here:

guttersnipe recording co.

Around here we’re fortunate enough to call Alejandro Escovedo a friend. If you know Al, or his story, you know he’s had a rough patch — if you can call nearly dying a “rough patch.”

Recently Al performed his new song from his upcoming album with Bruce Springstein live in Houston. Yeah, it’s really cool to see Al playing with the Boss and Steven Vansandt. But what’s really stunning is seeing my friend having such a great time. Listening to the unmastered mixes of his upcoming album one thing is clear; that sense of enjoying music again is alive in Al’s music as much as Al is.

“Every once in a while let your love show
Every once in a while, honey let your love go

Nobody gets hurt”

The Young at Heart Chorus, from North Hampton, MA. When you’re a young songwriter there are certain dreams you have; performing live on the Grammies, Wembly, meeting your idols, etc.

When you get beyond 30 – hopefully – you get beyond those to bigger dreams; moving people with your music, saving a life with your words, imparting some bit of life’s lessons, or even just bringing a smile.

In the business of art we get wound up tightly in the perils of thinking that youth is a metal stronger than wisdom. Maybe what we truly should remember is that feeling is a scion more precious than ambition.

Nothing illustrates this better than the Young at Heart Chorus. Watch this video and see what I mean. Watch it all the way through; if you still have dry eyes maybe you should re-evaluate your approach to your craft, if not your life.