Want to be in a music video?

The new album is coming along quite nicely and is tentatively set to hit your local uh.. iTunes, Amazon and other internet outlets in late August. We are really excited about it!

Here’s where you come in! The single “It’s All Over Now” will be released in mid-July and music experts say that a music video must accompany the first song. SO… How would you like to star, film, act, direct, lip-sync, dance or just rock out on camera? The idea is for anybody with a video camera, a web cam or a BETAcam to act along or film something that fits the song lyrics. We are looking for creative scenes, so make it your own!

If you are interested, please send a reply on facebook, send an email to musicvideo@johncallawaymusic.com or comment right here. We will contact you with more instructions and a link the mp3. 

Thanks for helping us out! It is going to be a lot more fun to have all of you in the video instead of David Hasselhoff, who originally volunteered. 

A Recording Sampler

Tracking at Castle Recording Studios with Rich Ramsey was a wonderful experience. Kyle, Eric and Kevin were awesome all weekend and made some great music. At the end of the session on Saturday I asked Rich to bounce out the songs exactly where they were with a rough mix. The two days we spent tracking were really only focused on bass and drums with the rest of the pieces to be added in later. In the sampler below you’ll hear the songs exactly as they were recorded with no editing, scratch vocals, scratch guitars and little to no effects. Later in the process I’ll post the songs as they progress from their beginnings as recordings on a laptop microphone to the finished product.

5 Song Sampler - Rough Mixes from Castle Recording Studios by John Callaway

More videos and audio clips are on the way in the next few weeks and months leading up to the release in August. As always, thanks for reading!

JRC

John Callaway and the Midnight Tacos

It was an awesome first day in Nashville.  We’re tracking music in a great studio with a great producer…the same rooms where huge album tracks have been cut.  It is a good environment for creativity here out in the rolling hills in Franklin, TN.  

After a long day of tracking full-band songs, we headed out downtown to do the tourist thing.  A few onion rings and a couple of pitchers later, we found ourselves at the best taco stand ever.  I’m so glad we could do some studio work in addition to tacos on this Nashville trip.

EO