Emily Dunbar’s songwriting is like a great book: rich with detail, filled with twists and unexpected turns, and ripe with emotional highs and lows. Emily’s new album, ‘Hello, Better’, slated for release Sept. 15, 2018 on CD, with digital formats to follow, is a journey through the pages of her life, and always with a glass-half-full mentality — even in the toughest parts of her stories.
Emily Dunbar is slated to release her solo album, ‘Hello, Better’ Sept. 15, 2018 on CD, with digital formats to follow. Tone Tree Audio, LLC recorded and mixed the album in 2017 - spring 2018.
Tone Tree Audio, LLC is not a stranger to Emily’s music, having worked with her and Hope Dunbar on previous albums, including the awesome Bluestem Psalter Volume 1. In 2017 Emily began recording scratch tracks and initial guitar parts with Tone Tree Audio at A NOTE-Worthy Studio in Kearney, Nebraska. She overdubbed accordion, ukulele, glockenspiel and final vocals throughout 2017. Melissa Reichert performed violin on numerous tracks on the album; Lisa Smith added bass; and Kent Lutt performed drums and percussion.
Of special note during the tracking process: Emily brought in her husband and sons to perform choir vocals on two tracks, highlights of the tracks ‘You’d Think By Now’ and ‘January First’.
Tone Tree Audio finished mixes of the album in spring 2018, and the album was mastered by Focus Mastering in summer 2018.
Dunbar said this of the recording process for ‘Hello, Better’: ‘Working with Tone Tree Audio has been easy and resulted in an album that I am so proud of. (Tone Tree was) a true partner in creating the sound I wanted both in the recording and mixing process.’
For information on Emily Dunbar’s ‘Hello, Better’ album, visit her official website and follow Emily’s Facebook page.
Check out in-studio performances from A NOTE-Worthy Studio in Kearney, Nebraska from ‘Robert Frost’.
Listen to ‘Robert Frost’ from ‘Hello, Better’ below.