I think in the back of our minds we’d been wanting someone to point us south again ever since Matthew Perryman Jones did that beautiful take on Patty Griffin’s “Top of the World.” There was a great story Emmanuel...

Drove up a super windy road in the hills of LA, pine trees everywhere in the neighborhood…whenever you’re in the mountains of LA you always forget for a minute that you are actually in LA. The room where we...

When Anna mentioned Spirit Family Reunion was interested in filming a session for the project I could do nothing but smile. I’ve loved the band ever since I first saw them play last year; their music instills in anyone...

Stockholm was a magical city when I arrived, neighborhoods buried in snow. Ane had planned the shoot for the evening I arrived in town so I went straight down to the studio. It was the same studio Ane recorded...

In the studio I’m very used to the recording process taking a long time, with layers upon layers often punched in and out, so I crave sessions like this, where the moment and the emotion are captured straight away....

This one was actually on Halloween, Rachel was playing that night at Joe’s Pub (not far from my place so easy to get to) and turns out neither Rachel nor I had figured out Halloween costumes so ran out...

Sometimes the most magical moments happen when everything falls into place despite nothing going according to plan. The Low Anthem, traveling from Montreal and scheduled to perform at Boston’s landmark Old South Church, were stopped on their way across...

I tried to find the place in Williamsburg for ages as I had gotten the wrong address, which was actually a construction site, and by the third time I passed the builders were my new friends trying to point...

I’ve been a big fan of Mason’s for a long time, so when Anna gave me the ok to collect some songs up here in Vancouver, and it coincided with his tour stop here, he was an obvious first...

I was introduced to Paddy Boom years ago (aka Patrick Seacor…aka Spike) at a friend’s house one lazy summer that of those lazy summers from when you’re younger that stay in your mind as a series of sun-filled snapshots....