Mudhook: ‘First Home’ CD

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Just in time for the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, Dave Hallowell, Peter Hale, Mike Jenneau and Alan Eaton, collectively known as Mudhook, have completed the special ‘collector’s edition’ of their new CD, here at Mill Pond Music. With charming, mostly traditional material, ringing guitars and bouzoukis, sweet fiddles, haunting low whistle and vocals sometimes rowdy, … Read more

Brendan Taaffe

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Brendan’s exquisite, delicate guitar playing, sweet vocals can be heard on the four tracks he recorded here.  Follow this link to his website and click ‘listen’  on his his website.   The two B & K 4011 mics, with ruler-flat response, did a nice job of capturing the brilliant sound of his small-bodied guitar. The solid … Read more

At the Shaskeen in Manchester NH with Roger Burridge

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There was a T-shirt seen at a number of Irish music sessions around New England this summer, with “What would Roger Do?” inscribed under a silhouette of Roger Burridge in his trademark sunglasses. He’s a legend, and for good reason: this English fiddle player who moved to the US some years ago has played with … Read more

Mill Pond Music Studio

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Mill Pond Music is a recording studio located in Portsmouth NH, a minute’s drive from picturesque and bustling Market Square, and situated on the banks of the North Mill Pond in a vintage factory building. The studio is equipped with a carefully selected array of microphones of exquisite quality, the finest of microphone pre-amps and … Read more

Some notes from my many Nashville clients:

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“Thanks so much for your great work! I’m not so much talking about the finished product (terrific!), but the process- respectful, unhurried, caring, artistic- which infuses and is forever captured in the finished product.”  Mary Beth Stone, regional coordinator Nashville Songwriters’ Assoc. Int’l. New York City “Thank you so very much…Besides your wonderful playing and … Read more