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MP3 Woodlind - Woodlind - The Lost Pumpkin Studio Sessions
A journey through the music, stories, and emotion that personified the acoustic rock band, Woodlind.
11 MP3 Songs in this album (52:15) !
Related styles: Rock: Acoustic, New Age: Meditation, Type: Lyrical
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Woodlind was an acoustic rock band (hailing from Chicago’s musically rich South-Side) comprised of members John Chesna, Ted Camer, and Gary Wesselhoff. Founded in 1969 the band was locally recognized for writing and performing an entirely original song list—and quite a list it was. Between ’69 and ‘73 the band would create an astounding catalog of over 100 original songs.
In 1970 Woodlind recorded their first studio session; a 45rpm single entitled “The Beautiful World We Live In” at Sound Unlimited Studios in Harvey Illinois. In ’71 Don Marks joined Woodlind and about that time Chesna left the group. Not long after Marks’ arrival, Woodlind began working on an untitled studio album. This album would be a departure from everything that they had done before; the premier distinction being a contracted string quartet to lay down an orchestra bed for some of the numbers. They added session musician Jim “Red” Stevens on Keyboards and for the first time Woodlind had a drummer playing with them. Close friend of the band David Keeney helped with the orchestral arrangements and key transpositions of the songs. Woodlind was looking for an acoustic rock sound that could scale up into a stadium rock band.
Gary Loizzo was the owner and Engineer of Pumpkin Studio, the place where the album was to be created. At the time Pumpkin was a FOUR TRACK shop but that would not be a hindrance to the project; Loizzo was a master of mixdown bouncing the four musical tracks down to two—leaving two tracks open for vocals and sweetening overdubs. As you listen, you’ll agree that there is a tremendous amount of music encoded on so few tracks. The musicians of today would be crippled by these conditions.
As you listen, you may hear mistakes that the band did not fix in the mix and some “rough cut” tracks. Also, the extensive signal processing equipment found in modern studios was not even envisioned back in 1972. Rough Cut music does NOT happen in today’s musical enterprise, but 1972 Woodlind sought a different kind of perfection--sonic perfection was not the ultimate objective of Woodlind’s final masterpiece album. It was the music, the stories, and the emotion that the band was working to present.
When Woodlind recorded the songs for these Studio Sessions they did not realize that they would be the group’s last project; even before the task was complete Marks, Camer, and Wesselhoff were beginning to head separate musical directions. Many of the closing tracks were played by a single band member. The boys all remained close friends throughout the years however.
For decades the master tapes from those sessions remained lost and nearly forgotten. Then by chance Ted stumbled upon them. He transferred them to digital form, burned and mailed a CD of the sessions to Wesselhoff. Gary re-mastered the songs in the Dragon Dream Studio that he created for his G-man Blues G-force project. Although the songs had been dormant for thirty-seven years re-mastered songs sounded as vibrant, fresh, and wondrous as the day they were recorded.
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