| Making of
the album
Andrew started writing songs from the
time he picked up the guitar at age 14. Barely a year passed before
he was ready to do an album. Many consider music to be his outlet,
as if some sort of internal force drives him to write and play
has diligently as he does. Although anxious to get his first album
out, it was not until Andrew turned nineteen years old that he
met a man named Jerry Brown of the Shady Grove Band that his goal
of a completed album would be accomplished.
Andrew and Jerry first met when Andrew and fellow member of Arktype,
Hillmon Poythress, went into Jerry's studio in Chapel Hill North
Carolina to record two songs. After that it would not be another
year until the two would speak again. Arktype disassembled and
Andrew, though playing with another band, sought out to do the
album he had wanted to do for so long. He called up Jerry and
Jerry called him in.
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In June of 2007 Andrew now
twenty years old, recorded five songs with Jerry in the course of
one day. Out of the five songs one called The Rabbit grabbed Jerry's
ear. It was from there that the two started discussing working on
album together. Jerry once said "I've never met such a prolific
songwriter at such a young age", and it was this statement
that really motivated Jerry's role in the making of the album.
What songs to choose? Andrew had by now a long list of songs in
many various styles and so both he and Jerry sought out on finding
the best ones to fit this first album. Because Jerry had been recording
since 96', he had ran into many great musicians and thought it best
to have Robert Sledge of Ben Folds Five to play bass, and studio
musician Kevin Brock on percussions. Also included on the album
will be Charles Humphries III on stand up bass, Nicky Sanders on
violin, Andy Thorn on banjo, and Mark Shimick on the mandolin.
Now in it's pre-release stage, the album to be named Loose Roots
due to it's semi-folk feel and because of Andrew's ever changing
lifestyle, will consist of thirteen maybe fourteen songs. It will
be released under the Chapel Hill Recording Company this year and
Andrew now 21, could not ask for more.
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