Session #1: Bull City

It’s finally here! Today is the release of our first complete Session, our March 2nd session with Bull City, out of Durham, NC.

March 2nd was a beautiful, unseasonably warm day down here in North Carolina, the perfect setting for an afternoon filled with Bull City’s unique brand of ass-kicking rock and roll. 12:00PM rolled around, so we hauled the Sessions gear into our recording space, the Caldwell Lounge, and the band soon arrived and set their gear up. JC proceeded to put them through the sound check, micing the group up appropriately and making several test recordings to ensure that the real recordings were of a high quality.

During the sound check, we were approached by a passerby who noticed the music and asked if we’d like him to take some photographs. We agreed, of course, and an hour later, he reappeared with a really nice-looking camera and proceeded to photograph the goings-on.

As it turned out, his name was Pavel and he was from a professional photo-shooting company out of Raleigh known as PhotoShooters. He took some absolutely beautiful photographs of the session:

Sound check complete, we began recording and the group proceeded to rip through their setlist, tearing through entire universes of epic rock and roll in single takes. Of particular note are the solos; can you believe that they were able to cut tracks like Game and Knock It Down in one fell swoop? That’s what live music from the Triangle is all about.

A few weeks later, Jim gave us his mixes of the Session, which sounded absolutely massive. These new recordings demand to be played loud with the lights off, and they’ll sound awesome whether you’re wearing a pair of cans or playing it through your stereo.

So, how can you get them? You can download the full Session right here and, soon enough, on jamendo.com. It’s licensed under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0), so if you like it, feel free to share it with anyone you’d like. Until next time, keep on the lookout for more content; we’ve got over 8 more Sessions we’ll be putting up soon and many more after that!

Full setlist:

Boss ‘N Pete

Game

Himeola

Hold It Down

Magnolia

Sam

What Could Have Been

Knock It Down

Lick the Boots

Credits:

Head Sound Engineer – J.C. Molet
Head Mixing/Mastering Engineer – Jim Brantley
Sound Co-Engineers – Chris Barnobi, Adam Kincaid, Alex Steinbaugh
Recording Supervisor – Steve Salevan
Special Thanks – WKNC (for putting up with us), Red Hat (for sponsoring us), Jim Brantley (for helping us with mixing), Greg DeKoenigsberg (for being an awesome dude)