MUSIC | stephenallendavis1

This CD titled "Life" contains 95 songs from the years 1964-2016. The 12 CDs in "Life" are: "The Light Pink Album", "The 8350 Nederland Tapes", "The Desert Sessions", "Human/Human", "Bogalusa Shake", "The Weed Years", "London 1972", "The RCA Studio B Sessions", and bonus tracks, "The Early Years 1964-1969", "Water Meditations", and "The Ocean-Skye Meditations".

In 1991 I left Nashville, Tennessee and moved to a small cabin high up in the Colorado Rockies. I started playing out again extensively and began writing songs that were a new direction for me. The first song I wrote at the cabin was "Still Loving You." That song led to "Highway, Highway," "47 Martin," "Jesus In The Back of a Cadillac" and all the other songs on "The Light Pink Album." All of the songs were performed live and on mic at my cabin studio Twangstar Recording.

I had never really latched on to a definitive way to perform "Take Time To Know Her," the song Percy Sledge recorded that started my career. Late one night I was playing around and had the mic and guitar all hooked up and did the performance that you hear on this CD. It was quite unexpected and that one song became the groundwork for "The Light Pink Album."

These songs were written in 1995. The record was completed in about 90 days.

The tracks were recorded on an MCI 24 Track 2 inch machine. I used a TAC Matchless console and various mic-pre's and compressors. These sessions were recorded at my cabin studio Twangstar Recording and involved a lot of people. Having to haul drums up the mountain on a snowmobile was interesting.

During the recording of "The Light Pink Album" I came up with the idea of making a trilogy. "The 8350 Nederland Tapes" is the 2nd release. "The Desert Sessions" completed the project and a live DVD was recorded at The Boulder Theatre in Boulder, Colorado. The program was picked up by PBS and aired nationally.

I wrote, played, engineered, mixed, and mastered the CD "Human / Human." It was recorded at the boat I was living on while docked at Marina del Rey, California. I had installed a full recording studio on board.

"Bogalusa Shake" was recorded in Nashville and then overdubed, sung and mixed at The Studio in the Country in Bogalusa, Louisiana. I was signed to Barclay Records in France and the album was produced by Phillipe Rault.

My exclusive songwriter contract with Al Gallico Music in New York City gave me exceptional access to recording studios and musicians. These songs were written and tracked between 1970 and 1973 and aptly reflect the times we lived in. My band was called The Jive Martians and one memorable night John Hiatt opened for us when we played at The Exit/Inn in Nashville.

"London 1972" was recorded at both Abbey Road Studios and Apple Recording Studios. Phillip McDonald engineered and co-produced this album with me.

This album was my first recording deal that was released under my name Steve Davis. I was 19 and my band really captured the soul/rock sound of the songs that I wrote and co-produced. It was cut in Nashville at the legendary RCA Studio B recording facility.