Clients

Here are just a few projects recorded at Sound Emporium throughout the years.

Discography
Artist: Various
Album: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Label: Lost Highway
A masterwork from producer T Bone Burnett. #1 on 5 different Billboard charts, including Top 200 Albums. Winner of Grammy Album of the Year and 3 other Grammies.
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Artist: Waylon and Willie
Album: Waylon and Willie
Label: BMG
Featuring "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" !!!
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Artist: Robert Plant/Alison Krauss
Album: Raising Sand
Label: Rounder
Winner of 5 Grammies, including Record of the Year and Album of the Year.
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Artist: Little Big Town
Album: Tornado
Label: Capital
Features Grammy nominated #1 hit Pontoon.
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Artist: Jamey Johnson
Album: Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran
Label: Mercury
Jamey Johnson pays tribute to Hank Cochran on this album that was recorded at Sound Emporium. Nominated for Best Country Album.
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Artist: Don Williams
Album: And So It Goes
Label: Sugar Hill Records
Reaching #1 on the UK Country Charts and #20 on the US Country Charts, reviews from The Examiner have hailed the record as Don's best album to date.
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Artist: Cast of "Nashville"
Album: The Music of Nashville Season 1
Label: ABC
Original Soundtrack of ABC's hit show "Nashville"
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Artist: Old Crow Medicine Show
Album: Carry Me Back
Label: ATO Records
Landing at #22 on the Billboard Charts in its first week, Carry Me Back was the bands highest chart position at #1 on the Bluegrass and Folk Charts and #4 in the Country Charts.
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Artist: Will Hoge
Album: Modern American Protest Music
Released in 2012, songwriter Will Hoge describes the record as personal expression as a song writer that is not the typical Will Hoge record.
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Artist: Ronnie Dunn
Album: Ronnie Dunn
Label: Sony
"Cost Of Living" Nominated for Best Country Solo Performance
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Artist: Kenny Chesney
Album: Lucky Old Sun
Label: BNA
Kenny Chesney tips his hat not to the Great American Songbook but the great ball in the sky, the one that shines on beaches from coast to coast.
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Artist: Joaquin Phoenix - Reese Witherspoon
Album: Walk the Line [Soundtrack]
Label: Wind-Up
A #1 Billboard Soundtrack Album and a Grammy winner. Reese Witherspoon won the Oscar for her portrayal of June Carter.
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Artist: Cold Mountain
Album: Soundtrack
The soundtrack to the 2003 film Cold Mountain that stats Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger
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Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: A Believer Sings The Truth
A double Gospel record from the Man In Black.
Artist: R.E.M.
Album: Document
Label: I.R.S. Records
A breakthrough album for the band. "The One I Love" was a top 10 single on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Artist: Al Green
Album: Precious Lord
Label: Word Distribution
Won the Traditional Gospel Grammy in 1982
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Artist: Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor
Album: Appalachia Waltz
Label: Sony Classical
This album, recorded in Studio A reached #1 on the Billboard classical chart.
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Artist: Keith Whitley
Album: Don't Close Your Eyes
Label: RCA Records
Keith Whitley's first album with producer Garth Fundis. Three landmark singles reached #1 on the Billboard country charts: "Don't Close Your Eyes", "I'm No Stranger To The Rain", and "When You Say Nothing At All".
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Artist: Todd Rudgren
Album: Runt
Label: Bearsville
Todd Rundgren's first solo album and one of the first albums recorded at the brand new Jack Clement Recording Studio in 1969.
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Artist: Kenny Rogers
Album: The Gambler
Label: EMI Music
A #1 album and Grammy winner for Best Country Song and Best Male Country Vocal Performance.
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Artist: Ralph Stanley
Album: Ralph Stanley
Label: Columbia Records
"Assisted by the incomparable Norman Blake on guitar, Stuart Duncan on banjo, Mike Compton on mandolin, and bassist Dennis Crouch, the arrangements are never intrusive on Stanley's voice, allowing his natural tenor to creak and crag through ten classic ballads and one new original." - from allmusic.com
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Artist: Trisha Yearwood
Album: Hearts In Armor
Label: MCA Records
"The leap Trisha Yearwood made as an artist between her debut in 1991 and Hearts in Armor in 1993 is remarkable. It remains one of her highest achievements." - from allmusic.com
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Artist: Delbert McClinton
Album: One Of The Fortunate Few
Label: Rising Tide
Featuring an all-star band including Benmont Tench, Jim Keltner, Jim Horn, and Mavis Staples. Delbert has recorded many albums at Sound Emporium through the years.
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Artist: Uncle Kracker
Album: Happy Hour
Label: Atlantic Records
The hit song "Smile" features a piano lick played on our sadly missed 9' Chickering grand, now residing at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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Artist: Various
Album: Rhythm, Country, and Blues
Label: MCA Records
This double Grammy winner contains the stunning "Rainy Night in Georgia" by Sam Moore and Conway Twitty. It was to be Conway's last session. He died three weeks later.
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Artist: Sam Bush
Album: Glamour And Grits
Label: Sugar Hill
"Surrounding himself with a blindingly talented list of supporting musicians (Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Al Kooper, among others), Bush still manages to maintain his own presence on the mandolin and even with his own pleasantly everyman vocals." - from allmusic.com
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Artist: Willie Nelson
Album: Country Music
Label: Rounder
"The soft-plucked string bass and strummed acoustic guitars are trademarks of T-Bone Burnett, the roots music producer whose well-tailored analog impressionism fetishizes authenticity, prizing every piece of pristinely preserved vintage equipment and then recording them immaculately, often with appealing results. " - from allmusic.com
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Artist: Sugarland
Album: Twice The Speed Of Life
Label: Universal Music
Sugarland's triple platinum debut was recorded and mixed in Studio A.
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Artist: Don Williams
Album: I Believe In You
Label: MCA Records
"The album is solid track to track, without a weak moment, and gives Williams fans what they desired most: a collection of tunes that were all love songs no matter how they were framed, because no one, no one, sings a love song like Don Williams, even now." - from allmusic.com
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Artist: Gillian Welch
Album: Hell Among The Yearlings
Label: Almo Sounds
"An affecting work filled with richly woven tales of death, despair, and the drugs (namely morphine and whiskey) often used to dull the pain." - from iTunes store review
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Artist: Soundtrack
Album: Smokey And The Bandit
Featuring "Tulsa Time" performed by Don Williams.
Artist: Ray Stevens
Album: Everything Is Beautiful
Label: Delta
This million-seller won a Grammy award in 1970.
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Artist: Sheryl Crow
Album: The Very Best Of...
Label: A&M Records
Contains "The First Cut Is The Deepest", recorded in Studio B with Shannon Forrest, Tom Bukovac, and Matt Rollings.
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Artist: The Chieftains
Album: Down The Old Plank Road
Label: RCA Records
Featuring Bela Fleck, Patty Griffin, Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss and others.
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Artist: Earl Klugh
Album: The Spice of Life
Label: Koch Records
The noted jazz guitarist comes to Nashville.
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Artist: Manhattan Transfer
Album: Swing
Label: Atlantic Records
On this continually interesting CD, the Manhattan Transfer revisits tunes from the swing era. With Buddy Emmons, Mark O'Connor, and Asleep at the Wheel.
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Artist: Alvin & The Chipmunks
Album: Urban Chipmunk
Label: Epic
Urban Chipmunk was one of the classic Alvin & The Chipmunks records. A parody of the current country scene inspired by the film Urban Cowboy, The Chipmunks run through a number of the era's biggest hits.
Artist: The Dynamites
Album: Kaboom!
Label: Thirty Tigers
Old-school shouter Charles Walker joins the established eight-piece Nashville based Dynamites and the union is a match made in hard funk heaven.
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Artist: Tomahawk
Album: Tomahawk
Label: Ipecac
Tomahawk can go without mentioning the personnel behind this project, which mostly speaks for itself: Mike Patton of uncountable amazing projects, Duane Denison of the Jesus Lizard, John Stanier of Helmet, Kevin Rutmanis of the Melvins.
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Artist: Willie Nelson
Album: Heroes
Label: Legacy
A 2012 collection of classics, contemporaries, and originals, Willie returns to the Columbia/Sony family after nearly two decades away.
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Artist: Kenny Chesney
Album: Just Who I Am: Poets and Pirates
Label: RCA Records
Featuring appearances by George Strait and Joe Walsh.
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Artist: Lawless
Album: Soundtrack
Label: Sony Classical
Ralph Stanley sings Lou Reed in Studio A!
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Artist: Urban Cowboy
Album: Soundtrack
Label: Elektra/Asylum Records
Winner of 2 Grammy awards
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Artist: Paul Anka
Album: Both Sides of Love
Artist: Tom Jones
Album: Darlin'
Tom Jones turned to country music in the early '80s. Darlin', his first attempt at string-laden country-pop, was also his most successful
Artist: Jerry Reed
Album: Texas Bound and Flyin'
Label: BMG
Featuring "East Bound and Down"
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Artist: The Villain
Album: Soundtrack
Soundtrack to the movie starring Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margaret, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: Silver
Label: Sony
Produced by Brian Ahern. This album contains an epic version of "Ghost Riders in the Sky".
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Artist: Willie Nelson
Album: Sings Kris Kristofferson
Label: Sony BMG
A return to country-rock after the smash success of Stardust the year before, this is one of Willie Nelson's best albums.
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Artist: Marshall Tucker Band
Album: Dedicated
Produced by the great Tom Dowd.
Artist: John Denver
Album: Some Days Are Diamonds
Label: Sony
This is a very lush and processed sounding recording that includes some of John Denver's later work.
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Artist: Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
Album: Soundtrack
Soundtrack to the 2002 Callie Khouri directed film that stars Sandra Bullock and Ashley Judd
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Artist: Where The Heart Is
Album: Soundtrack
The soundtrack to the 2000 movie staring Natalie Portman, James Frain and Ashley Judd
Artist: Blue Valley Songbird
Album: Soundtrack
Dolly Parton lends her song "Blue Valley Songbird" to the movies soundtrack. She also stars in the movie alongside Billy Dean and John Terry.
Artist: Honeymoon In Vegas
Album: Soundtrack
James Caan Nicolas Cage and Sarah Jessica Parker star in this 1992 movie.
Artist: 8 Seconds
Album: Soundtrack
Artist: Bridget Jones's Diary
Album: Soundtrack
The soundtrack to the film from 2001 that stars Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant
Artist: Exit Wounds
Album: Soundtrack
An action movie from 2001 that stars Steven Seagal, DMX and Isaiah Washington.
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Artist: All The Pretty Horses
Album: Soundtrack
Soundtrack to the 2000 movie starring Matt Damon, Penélope Cruz and Henry Thomas.
Artist: Albert Collins
Album: The Compleat Albert Collins
Label: Imperial Records
The album is, overall, more of a rocking affair, with less emphasis on brass instrumentation and more on fiery guitar and funky rhythms.
Sound Emporium
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For booking info contact Juanita Copeland. For technical details or questions contact Chief Engineer Matt Andrews.