Chuck Lee Bramlet
Chuck Lee Bramlet
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Chuck Lee Bramlet commented on Jean-Christophe chamboredon's blog post 'The Devil Makes Three "All Hail" / One take in Runyon Canyon, Los Angeles'
Sounds great. Wished I'd been there. A full vid concert might be a good idea. Cool lyrics, icing on the cake.
Jan 29, 2010

Track by track: Love Me • Recording

This one went down pretty easily. I wrote in alternate tuning (Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" tuning: CGCFCE), and I believe I used the Guild D4. Single guitar pass and vocal, one take for each, with a fix or two. Rich is such a great engineer that these tasks are never a problem. Having engineered myself many times, it can become a mighty struggle. Rich put down a hypnotic little percussion loop, then bass. Although it's fun to play bass on my own tracks, I love giving it over to Rich, he really is…See More
Blog post by Chuck Lee Bramlet Jan 12, 2010

BURN DOWN START OVER • Track by Track • Love Me

This song had it's start under bogus circumstances. Learned through the Grapevine that LeeAnn Rimes was looking for material. At that time I was still toying with the idea of expanding my craft to write for other artists. I thought a mainstream Nashville player like LeAnn could use some street cred, a closer-to-the-bone personal thing, like George Jones tried to do with "Choices". Never underestimate the power of my delusional mind to get it wrong. Here's the 3 ways I blew it.1. "Grapevine…See More
Blog post by Chuck Lee Bramlet Jan 7, 2010

Track by track: Time to Wake Up

Guilty pleasure: I am a fan of the BIG DUMB ROCK. True, I love smart writers and smart music, Aimee Mann is it in my book, Leonard Cohen, Red House Painters, John Prine, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Nick Drake get lots of play in my iTunes list, I have a huge collection of Western classical music and jazz, and I even bought and devoured the new They Might Be Giants album for science geeks. (If you laugh because these examples are not sufficiently smart/obscure/hip/geeky enough for you, please email…See More
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Chuck Lee Bramlet commented on Chuck Lee Bramlet's blog post 'Changes for the %$#@# Holidays!'
A producer is just an outside ear, another perspective. I produced my first 2 myself and things were getting a little... homogeneous. Rich shook things up nicely. Also he is a great engineer, and it was awesome not to wear that hat as well. Thanks,…
Dec 31, 2009
davo99 commented on Chuck Lee Bramlet's blog post 'Changes for the %$#@# Holidays!'
Chuck - following up on a question posed in the comments to the T-Bone Burnett thread, what exactly does a producer do? How does Rich's vision mesh with yours to produce the final result? Just curious!
Dec 30, 2009

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Chuck Lee Bramlet joined Kimberely Grant's group Dec 28, 2009
Chuck Lee Bramlet commented on Sarah Arslanian's blog post 'Coins'
Cool song. Has it been 3 years? Great googly moogly.
Dec 28, 2009
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Kyla Fairchild commented on Chuck Lee Bramlet's blog post 'Track by track: Eyes of a Killer'
Nice post. Interesting to hear the story behind the song.
Dec 28, 2009
Kimberely Grant commented on Chuck Lee Bramlet's blog post 'Burn Down Start Over'
I miss Aram and Sarah, also. And they're both so talented. (as are you.)
Dec 27, 2009

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Chuck Lee Bramlet joined Linda Ray's group Dec 27, 2009

Burn Down Start Over

I've recorded this album 4 times, hence the title. Not all songs that are present in the final, but most. After Murder of Crows in 2004, I kept recording original stuff at home, but tracks were either too raw, too fussy, or too overworked, in other words, "dead on arrival."I was playing bass in Renee Stahl's band at the time, and…See More
A blog post by Chuck Lee Bramlet was featured Dec 27, 2009

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Track by track: Love Me • Recording

This one went down pretty easily. I wrote in alternate tuning (Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" tuning: CGCFCE), and I believe I used the Guild D4. Single guitar pass and vocal, one take for each, with a fix or two. Rich is such a great engineer that these tasks are never a problem. Having engineered myself many times, it can become a mighty struggle. Rich put down a hypnotic little percussion loop, then bass. Although it's fun to play bass on my own tracks, I love giving it over to Rich, he really is… Continue

Posted on January 12, 2010 at 3:43am

Chuck Lee Bramlet

BURN DOWN START OVER • Track by Track • Love Me

This song had it's start under bogus circumstances. Learned through the Grapevine that LeeAnn Rimes was looking for material. At that time I was still toying with the idea of expanding my craft to write for other artists. I thought a mainstream Nashville player like LeAnn could use some street cred, a closer-to-the-bone personal thing, like George Jones tried to do with "Choices". Never underestimate the power of my delusional mind to get it wrong. Here's the 3 ways I blew it.



1.… Continue

Posted on January 7, 2010 at 3:31am

Chuck Lee Bramlet

Track by track: Time to Wake Up

Guilty pleasure: I am a fan of the BIG DUMB ROCK. True, I love smart writers and smart music, Aimee Mann is it in my book, Leonard Cohen, Red House Painters, John Prine, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Nick Drake get lots of play in my iTunes list, I have a huge collection of Western classical music and jazz, and I even bought and devoured the new They Might Be Giants album for science geeks. (If you laugh because these examples are not sufficiently smart/obscure/hip/geeky enough for you, please email… Continue

Posted on January 3, 2010 at 4:00am

Chuck Lee Bramlet

Track by Track: Werewolf on my Nightstand • Recording

This was the first track we recorded. We worked at Rich's apt in Hollywood. It was a while ago so details are a bit sketchy.



I had been overworking the song, playing it in a folky, Roger McGuinn-like, Byrdsy drawl. Every time I would try a home recording version I would run it by Amy Raasch, who loved the song. Very politely she would deem each version underwhelming. Back to the drawing board.



Rich Jacques suggested we take a different direction. He set up my guitar to… Continue

Posted on December 31, 2009 at 6:00am

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At 7:20am on January 8, 2010, Craig BuaCraig Bua said…
Hey Chuck been a long time,where do I pick up new album.....Craig
At 12:50pm on December 27, 2009, No DepressionNo Depression said…
Hi Chuck - Welcome to the No Depression community! We hope you're finding everything okay. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback (here are some FAQs in case anything's confusing). Thanks for joining. Cheers!
Kim
At 8:32am on December 25, 2009, Will JamesWill James said…
Welcome to No Depression, Chuck Lee. Good luck with the album. Please consider joining our ND Group, the Gram Parsons Project Board and best wishes for a healthy, creative and prosperous New Year.
 
 
 

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