I'm lucky to have a great team of people working “Class Out The Ass”. My producer, Travis Ramin, who gets me, and works with me to to make my visions a reality. My record label, Rum Bar Records from Boston. Malibu Lou Mansdorf is unusual for a music industry type. He puts everything into his work and is amazing to work with. Kristi Vilinskis at Elephants and Flowers Media is the latest addition, and she's a peach! Now that the album is completed, we are all hustling to get it in the ears of the world…
Making “Class Out The Ass” took more than two years to complete.
The response to “Aloha From Kentucky” in 2022 (also on Rum Bar) was so positive, we started talking about a follow up after a couple of months. We went back and forth with dates and found a week we could all meet back in Lexington, KY at Brian Pulito's studio, “Horse City Hit Club”. All the originals starts returned for a follow up. Nashville Pussy's Canadian lead guitarist and all around goddess, Ruyter Suys, brought her guitars and found a mandolin in town. She played keyboard and sang duet and backups. Nasvhille Pussy frontman and Nine Pound Hammer guitarist and songwriter, Kentuckys poet laureate, Blaine Cartwright came to play and sing. He needs to get credit for coming up with the idea for this country supergroup, so I'm saying it here! Mark Hendricks returned on bass and backing vocals, with Travis Ramin on drums. He's not just a drummer- he produced the whole shebang! KY belter Heather Parrish came through to add her 2 cents and the record is all the better for it.
We cranked out all the basic tracks, duets and backing vocals in Lexington. Travis and I brought the tracks back to Minnesota to track the vocals and add Travis' stardust to it all. I recorded with Tom Herbers in the legendary Kay Bank studio inside Creation Audio in Minneapolis.
Travis sent all the tracks back to Brian Pulito in Lexington and he mixed them. This is one of the great things about modern recording - you can send things back and forth quickly. It still takes a long time for three people to listen and give feedback, though, and to get things mixed again - imagine that a bunch of times in a row…
It took awhile. The admin part of making art can take longer than the creating part.
Lou had Kurt Bloch master the tracks. That was a cherry on top!
The thing we made together and are putting out on the world is the best album I've made. I'm really proud of it, and grateful to the players and to Lou and Krista for helping me get it to the world.