Down From Montana Pete Wilke Los Angeles I wasn’t born or raised in Montana. I probably won’t die there either, unless I go pheasant hunting with Dick Cheney. But, I did go to Flathead High School and I consider Kalispell to be home. There’s been a lot of water under the bridge since 1966, the year I graduated. This album is my homage to Montana. Some of it comes directly out of experiences I’ve had there. Some of it doesn’t. You can chalk the rest up to good ole fashioned lament, I suppose. Anyway, for better or worse, this is for my classmates. Brown Grass Music – When I called Paul Scholten of County Q Productions in Nashville, I told him I had an album I wanted to do (in what we know these days as) “unplugged.” He said that was great, that he loved cutting records that way, sort of like “Oh Brother Where Art Thou?” I responded; “well, let’s just say I want to do the album unplugged.” I’ve always thought of my favorite country music as being more along the lines of white trash blues, but I didn’t especially want to reveal that to Paul at the time. So, I sent him the work tape and he charted out the tunes for his hand-picked blue grass studio band to play on the album. When I arrived in Nashville and went into the studio, Paul told our sound engineer, Rob Matson, that we were going to spend the day cutting a “brown grass” album. Okay. I can live with that. Maybe that’s a little more flattering than “white trash blues.” Maybe it isn’t. Either way, it's heartfelt and that's the point. Enjoy it. ---------------------------------------------------------- Music & Lyrics by Pete Wilke Lead vocals: Pete Wilke Back-up vocals: Lorraine Devon Wilke, Pete Wilke Music produced and arranged by Paul Scholten Vocals produced, mixing and mastering by John Perez Back-up vocal arrangements by Lorraine Devon Wilke Music Sound Engineer: Rob Matson Vocal Sound Engineer: John Perez Players: Drums, Percussion: Paul Scholten Acoustic Guitar: Steven Sheehan Banjo, Fiddle, Guitar: Joe Spivey Steel: Russ Pahl String Bass: Don Kerce Music produced at County Q Productions, Nashville, Tennessee Vocals, mixing and mastering at Audioworks, Glendale, California cd photos by: Dillon Wilke Special thanks to: OBs Grill & Bar, Manhattan Beach, CA and Susan Willick for supplying the location for the album photo shoot. Down From Montana’s tracks Down From Montana by Down From Montana published on 2019-08-26T00:09:20Z The Fool Has Struck Again by Down From Montana published on 2019-08-26T00:08:35Z Show Me the Way by Down From Montana published on 2019-08-26T00:07:51Z Barstool Cowboy by Down From Montana published on 2019-08-26T00:06:54Z I'd Already Taken the Fall by Down From Montana published on 2019-08-26T00:06:06Z I'll Never Stop Crying by Down From Montana published on 2019-08-25T23:59:41Z My Hornback Cowboy Boots by Down From Montana published on 2019-08-25T23:58:00Z Don't Grow Up Too Fast by Down From Montana published on 2019-08-25T23:57:06Z Locked Up in the Big Sky by Down From Montana published on 2019-08-25T23:56:23Z Sea-tac Airport Nightmare by Down From Montana published on 2019-08-25T23:55:22Z
