When Artist D’Elle contacted me about producing a roots-blues Americana track “Truth Be Told”, I was so excited. As a folk artist myself, the picture she had painted about her song and vision really resonated with me. We had talks about finding a way to produce the music that took you back to a Mississippi front porch. Picture sitting on the front porch picking on an old beat up acoustic guitar as musicians join in. The first goal, find the… [Read More]

StudioPros Country Song Contest winner Kurt Hunter shares “Old Guitar” final master We wanted to share with you the before and after of Kurt Hunter’s winning StudioPros Country Contest song, “Old Guitar”. Kurt is such a talented songwriter and was a true pleasure to work with throughout this country music production. The StudioPros production team chose to go with a live country band feel including live drums, bass, electric guitar, piano as well as some tastefully placed pedal steel. Kurt… [Read More]

First Annual StudioPros Country Songwriting Contest Winners The StudioPros producers are beyond excited at all the wonderful country songwriting contest submissions that we received. What started out as a fun contest, turned into such an outpouring of well crafted country songs that we had to sort through. We had over 500 submissions to the contest! Making the final decisions on the winners was a difficult decision to make, but we LOVE the songs we chose. Stay tuned as we will… [Read More]

John Jones is a songwriter that lives down under in Australia. I had the pleasure of meeting John after he contacted us regarding some production on kids songs that he has written. He had a great demo with excellent musical ideas on it so it was a breeze to get a direction for the song right off the bat. After going through some production ideas with him we got started on what I hope is the first of many productions that we… [Read More]

Roger is an extremely inspiring and proactive songwriter with an ever-growing music catalogue. When he’s not saving lives supervising the assembly of pressure relief valves and actuators, he’s writing hit country songs and branding himself as a song-writing powerhouse. Over the course of a year, Roger has completed 10 full productions with us. Roger would send us a scratch demo of himself singing along to an acoustic guitar and we would take it off his hands, carefully choosing the appropriate arrangements and producing these songs… [Read More]

  I always enjoy the process of working with young singer-songwriters because I always can see how much they learn throughout the production from start to finish and the promise in their futures is so bright. This month’s featured artist, Kaylee Keller is one of the most mature teenage girls I have ever met. Born and raised in Western Kansas (Garden City), Kaylee is just 16 years old and an upcoming junior in high school.  She has already gotten 10 college… [Read More]

Where would we be without our mothers? They have shaped who we are. This latest featured artist is Amy Scarlata. A young singer/songwriter and freshman in high school, Scarlata’s songwriting and life experience definitely exceed her 15 years of age. The chorus clearly speaks about her mother Christiana Scarlata, who has recently passed away. She has also recently written a new song for her mom, which will be the next in que for production. As a tribute to mothers for… [Read More]

This month’s featured songwriter, Irben Jeter, spends the majority of his time on the road as a coach operator. Along with that comes a lot of time to reflect and write melodies and songs. Jeter first started collaborating with the StudioPros team in 2013 and since then we have produced 8 full songs together. His strength is writing infectious melodies and lyrics. He records his melodic ideas into his phone and sends them over to me via email. From there,… [Read More]

This month’s Featured Artist, Steve Jiske, has a knack for writing catchy modern country melodies and lyrics. His latest production, Carolina Girls is an upbeat country track with an ode to his local ladies. I find myself singing along to the chorus everytime I play the final version of this song. I’ve had the pleasure of producing 2 songs with Steve over the course of the last 4 months and am really proud of the way his songs have turned… [Read More]

Producer’s Note: I usually present the Featured Artist blogs in interview format, but our most recent artist Patricia Charlton has such a gift of writing and storytelling that she has written first hand about working with our production team. With that said, read what the talented songstress has to say about her experience with StudioPros. The StudioPros experience from Patricia Charlton: I first got involved with StudioPros when I was online looking for studios in my area to record my… [Read More]