Tape Notes
by John Kennedy · In The Woods
Podcast hosted by John Kennedy that reunites an artist and their producer to reconstruct how a record was made, playing demos and original session stems. Listeners understand real studio decisions about song ideas, arrangement, instrumentation, recording and mixing.
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