Assisted by engineer Jim Vollentine, over a week, the musicians laid down vocals and backing tracks for five of Alan’s tracks and three of Joe’s (that Alan intended to re-work back in England), together with various guitar and harmonica parts.  Alan was keen to record drummer Richard Lamm and bassist John Wolfe (who perform with Joe as ‘The Joe Richardson Express’) to give the tracks an element of performance as well as providing additional material for loops and samples.

Alan: "Like any session where one is working with others for the first time, there is bound to be a degree of ‘feeling each other out’, you know - understanding the humour, developing the studio banter and so on.  I decided to ease into it by getting the whole band in and recording drums and bass first.  By the end of the week, we were quite comfortable and in fact, recorded most of Joe’s vocals on the last day.  The sum of what we achieved during the week outweighed what I’d expected and I actually came away with quite a lot of bonus material.  Everything was recorded to multitrack (for that special tape sound) and then transferred into ProTools.  I managed to take the entire session home on a palm-sized hard drive!"


Joe: "It all went so easy and so quickly and Alan made the whole thing a real pleasure so the entire process couldn’t have been more fun or easy.  He’s a creatively gifted person and just an all around nice guy!"