and I fight and I’m determined
as hell to hopefully have an al-
bum available by the end of
2018 for release or download…
God, I would love to have it on
vinyl if I could.”
Richards is currently writing
and recording demo versions of
the songs. He has a small home
studio in his new home where he
records his songs and ideas onto
a 16-track Zoom digital record-
er. If they start morphing into
more of a song, he drops them
onto his Apple Logic Studio and
starts adding instruments that he
doesn’t play to the mix.
One of the benefits of where he
lives is being 48 minutes from
Muscle Shoals and one hour
from Nashville. Most people
know Nashville and its history,
but Muscle Shoals has tremen-
dous history of its own. Artists
like The Rolling Stones, Lynryd
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Skynrd, The Allman Brothers,
Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin,
and Rod Stewart recorded clas-
sic songs there.
“There’s a feel and a vibe in that
room that’s just incomparable,”
said Richards.
Between the costs of hiring
top-notch performers and find-
ing the time to record while hav-
ing good days and a lot of bad
days, creating this album is quite
a challenge. But it’s something
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