Bill Watson Produces Three Vocal Tracks at Red Alert Recording Studio in Gallatin, Tn, Shawn Conley Engineering

This past week, Nashville Trax producer, Bill Watson, carrying a portable hard drive loaded with tracks for three songs he arranged and tracked at Nashville Trax, uploaded them into a Pro Tools rig at Red Alert Studios in Gallatin Tn, part of a collaborative effort between Watson and engineer Shawn Conley.

Once the tracks were prepped Watson and Conley teamed up to record, engineer and produce singer Dan Thompson as he sang vocals for his new album which is projected to receive airplay in Canada.

Although Dan was well rehearsed and had the songs he’d penned “down pat” each song took a little over an hour to record with multiple takes and phrase-by-phrase instruction on timing and pitch.

Singer Songwriter Dan Thompson of Canada sings his vocal on music tracks produced at Nashville Trax Recording Studios.

Singer Songwriter Dan Thompson of Canada sings his vocal on music tracks produced at Nashville Trax Recording Studios.

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Here’s a clip of one song done at the session titled “Our Love”

Our Love is © 2015 Dan Thompson. Produced by Bill Watson for Nashville Trax.
Engineers: Bill Watson, Shawn Conley, Vocals: Dan Thompson. Musicians: Jim Riley (of Rascal Flatts) drums; Tom Wild (of B.J. Thomas’ band) rhythm and lead guitars; Jenee Fleenor (Blake Shelton) fiddle, Mike Douchette (steel guitar); Bill Watson, bass guitar; Ron Fairchild (Oak Ridge Boys) Piano.


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Rascal Flatts Drummer Jim Riley Added to Nashville Trax Roster

Rascal Flatts Drummer Jim Riley on the cover of Modern Drummer.

Rascal Flatts Drummer Jim Riley on the cover of Modern Drummer.

One of the top drummers in the world, long time member of Rascal Flatts band, Jim Riley, has been added to the roster of drummers available from Nashville Trax. Jim’s residence and drum dojo are just six minute’s drive from the Nashville Trax studio. Congrats to Jim for landing the coveted spot on the cover of Modern Drummer magazine!

Rascal Flatts drummer, Jim Riley, at Nashville Trax on the house kit.

Rascal Flatts drummer, Jim Riley, at Nashville Trax on the house kit.


Performance Tracks of Hit Songs & Originals Now Available!

The band Hoffman performing a show in Hendersonville TN. Your single act can sound like a full band! Your cover band can sound just like the original recording!

The band Hoffman performing a show in Hendersonville TN. They’re paid  hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in base pay, plus earn even more in tips at each performance!

Do you perform with a band? As a trio? A duo? A single?

A quick search of Gigmasters proves that many singles and duos earn $400 to over $2,000 per performance! Why not you? Sound like a full band without the hassle or expense!

Perhaps you perform now? Have you ever tried making your sound bigger and richer by performing with pre-recorded tracks?

It’s EASY! you’ll hear four count off clicks and the song begins. You play along on whatever instrument(s) you wish. That instrument will be removed from the mix but the rest of the instruments will be there!

Your single act or duo can sound like a full band! Your four piece band can now have professional keyboards!

If you already use karaoke tracks you know most of the parts sound cheesy. Low quality programmed drums are usually the foundation and often, guitar parts are lame because they’re played on keyboards! All outputted to lossy, low quality mp3 files. Not with Nashville Trax, we use ONLY real, pro musicians, ONLY session quality players and we can give you high quality file formats!

For more information visit our site:

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Pre-Production Started On 10 song album for Blues Guitarist Tony Pizzino. Bill Watson/Jack White co-producing.

Blues Guitarist, Tony Pizzino

Blues Guitarist, Tony Pizzino

Pre-production has started for a 10 song album featuring blues guitarist Tony Pizzino and singer Grant Anderson. Bill Watson will be playing bass on it, as well as co-producing with Jack White, who will also be playing drums. Tony is flat out amazing on blues guitar and Grant has a unique, totally awesome voice that naturally leans toward blues They’ve both written some excellent songs for the project. Bill, Tony and Jack recorded test rhythm tracks back in August.

Update: This album is in progress. Several songs have been tracked and a Christian spinoff project is underway with a song titled “Finally Free” tracked and rough mixed, and another titled  “Into The Light” being co-written by Bill and Grant.

Nashville Trax Producer, Bill Watson

Nashville Trax Producer, Bill Watson


Strings Online: Keyboard-Generated, Live Player Violin, Cello and Viola Delivered Over the Internet

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Nashville Trax has added strings online to their list of instruments available to producers and self-producers of music.

The options you can add to a project you’ve started in your studio are:

  • Keyboard-generated string parts
  • Live string parts
  • A mix of keyboard and live musician-played parts (on violin, viola or cello)
  • Typically .wav files in the format required by the client’s recording setup (24/48, 16, 44.1, etc.) are exchanged via file exchanging services such as Dropbox.com or Hightail.com.

    Mp3s are lower quality than .wav files but can be exchanged via e-mail.

    For more information visit:

    Strings Online

    If you are searching for fiddle tracks:

    Fiddle Tracks Online

    If you are searching for keyboard tracks:

    Piano Tracks Online


    Looking For Music Produced Online? It Happens Here!

    Jim Riley, drummer for Rascal Flatts, playing drums on a song for Wayne from Main's album

    Jim Riley, drummer for Rascal Flatts, playing drums on a song for Wayne from Main’s album

    Do you want to have a pro sounding album produced with you as the singer?

    Or perhaps you’d like to do a project featuring you as both the singer and songwriter, online?

    Nashville Trax music producer, Bill Watson, can make it happen!

    You get: An album of between 6 and 14 songs played by top tier Nashville session musicians that will impress your friends and family, will be suitable for marketing you and your music to record company A & R and music publishers, can be sold on various Internet sites and may even get radio airplay.

    How would you like to have these musicians and their credits on YOUR album?

    “I’ve produced several album projects for singers who can’t easily come to the studio to record their vocals,” says Watson. “They send me their rough mp3, I professionalize it, hire great musicians and give that work to them. Some clients have added their vocals and mixed on their end. Others sing to our work, then send me their vocal file for mixing here. It works great either way!”

    In fact, Watson is doing an album project over the Internet as this is being written. It’s for “Wayne from Main” and Wayne is thrilled with the 5 songs (of 8 planned) completed to date. “They don’t sound cookie cutter at all which was the problem with other Nashville studios I tried prior to Nashville Trax, Each song on my album completed so far has it’s own sound and I love that,” says Wayne.

    Wouldn’t you like to have players of this caliber on your project? On Wayne’s project, so far Bill has used:

    Drummers:

    Jim Riley, drummer, Rascal Flatts

    David Northrup, has played for Travis Tritt, John Mellencamp, The Oak Ridge Boys’ and Wynnona.

    Greg Ewen, (F.W.O., Louise Mandrell)

    William Ellis, drummer for Montgommery Gentry

    Bass Guitar:

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    Guitar:

    Tom Wild B.J. Thomas, Mindy McCreedy,
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    Kevin Post (Blake Shelton)

    Steel Guitar:

    Kevin Post (Blake Shelton)

    Kevin Post, steel guitar player for Blake Shelton adds a pedal steel track to one of Wayne from Main's songs

    Kevin Post, steel guitar player for Blake Shelton adds a pedal steel track to one of Wayne from Main’s songs

    Violin, Viola, Fiddle:
    Jenee Fleenor (Blake Shelton, Martina McBride)

    Piano, strings, B3 Organ, Synthesizer:

    Ron Fairchild (Oak Ridge Boys)

    Steve King (Nashville session keyboard player)

    Saxophone:

    John Heinrick (Roniie Milsap)

    The cost?

    Forget the typical $20,00 to $50,000 budget most Nashville studios charge to produce an independent project!

    Try an 6 song album project as low as $4,000!* And you can pay as you go!. As little as $300 down will start your project. As each song is completed and paid for an additional down payment will be required.

    Want a sample? You are welcome to try one song before committing to an entire album project.

    For details or to have any questions you may have answered, simply e-mail: nashtrax@bellsouth.net

    Jenee Fleenor, fiddle player for Blake Shelton, @ Nashville Trax

    Jenee Fleenor, fiddle player for Blake Shelton, @ Nashville Trax

    * the $4,000 price reflects the client or the clien’t’s singer recording the vocals and mixing on their end.


    Nashville Bass Tracks

    If you need a Nashville Bass Track for your song, why look anywhere but Nashville Trax? We’ve satisfied ,ore clients with our “add this instrument to your project” over-the Internet service than any other Nashville based recording studio!

    Bill Watson Engineering and playing bass guitar

    Bill Watson engineering and playing bass guitar

    Order your bass guitar track here:

    http://www.nashvilletraxrecordingstudio.com/bass-guitar-tracks-online

    Need a specific bass and amp combo?

    Fender Precision? Ampeg? Hartke? Fender Jazz? Yamaha? Washburn? You name it, we probably have both the amp and bass you need. Not that knowledgeable? we’ll be glad to select the proper bass gear for your song!

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    Jenee Fleenor in for Fiddle Tracks Online Projects

    Blake Shelton's Fiddle Player Jenee Fleenor @ Nashville Trax Fiddle Trax Online

    Blake Shelton’s Fiddle Player Jenee Fleenor @ Nashville Trax Fiddle Trax Online

    The amazing Jenee Fleenor back in town from backing up the country contestant on The Voice featuring her boss, Blake Shelton, was in today to cut a fiddle track on one song and both fiddle and cello on another.

    NEED A FIDDLE OR VIOLIN TRACK on your song?  Text us or call 615-319-8616. Or e-mail nashtrax@bellsouth.net

    A recent Rascal Flatts album she worked on had keyboard string pads but they wanted it to sound more like live strings so Jenee layered her violin and cello parts in with the keyboard strings and properly mixed, it sounded fantastic.

    So we now offer that same option to our clients, just ask.


    Record Your EP or Album Over-The-Internet! We play session quality tracks, YOU sing!

    Our producer writes a custom arrangement and music charts for each of your songs:

    Bill Watson, Nashville Trax music producer Nashville Trax, Play It Again Demos

    Nashville Trax Producer/Arranger, Bill Watson

    Top notch session quality musicians play your song:

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    Professional background vocals are added:

    How would YOUR song sound with a Nashville pro singing harmony on it? Awesome!

    How would YOUR song sound with a Nashville pro singing harmony on it? Awesome!

    YOU record YOUR OWN VOCALS where you live, either on your own gear or at a local studio.

    Then WE mix (or you can mix on your end).

    Yes it works great!

    Interested? e-mail producer Bill Watson at nashtrax@bellsouth.net for details.


    Now Tracking: 5 songs for Wayne Lewis, 3 New Tunes for Winston Harold. Just added 1 song for Aleta Anthony, 1 for Joe Burnette + 20 Tracks Online projects in. Greg Jennings of Restless Heart on sessions! 1 Song Left On Stephane Bouchard EP!

    Nashville session musician Mike Douchette lays a harmonica track at Nashville Trax!

    Nashville session musician Mike Douchette lays a harmonica track at Nashville Trax!

    There IS time to get your song in on one of these sessions!

    Bill Watson, Nashville Trax music producer Nashville Trax, Play It Again Demos

    Play It Again Producer/Arranger, Bill Watson

    The players, all known as Nashville session quality musicians, some with live show artist gigs as well, will include:

    William Ellis drummer for Montgomery Gentry. William locks on a click and basically dares anyone to try and move him off it. Nope, won’t happen.
    Greg Jennings, session player and guitarist with Restless Heart.
    Ron Fairchild, keyboards. Session player and The Oak Ridge Boys long time session guy.
    Steve King, master session keyboard player.
    Bill Watson, bass guitar. guitar, Nashville Trax producer.
    David Northrup, Nashville session drummer. The Groove King was Travis Tritt’s drummer for years, currently with The Oaks
    Randy Smith. session bass guitarist.
    Jenee Fleenor, fiddle amd mando. Currently plays for Blake Shelton, her main gig, also for Martina McBride and The Opry staff band when she’s available.
    Mike Douchette, session quality Pedal steel guitarist and harp player. Mike’s credits are major league and extensive.

    1 new trio demo plus 9 tunes in for the full band/producers choice treatment. Wayne writes traditional style country and the trio of songwriters who make up Winston Harold write in a variety of styles. We’ve demoed several songs for them prior. This go-round one tune is going blues, another is Contemporary Christian and a third is leaning toward country. Update: Just got a new tune in to be done trio style (vocal, guitar, drums and bass guitar) for Aleta Anthony. We did a demo for her a few years ago that she was happy with but haven’t heard from since. Apparently she believes in quality not quantity. Altogether, with our Tracks Online projects and the Tony Pizzino album project we have about 40 song recordings in progress.

    Bill Watson is producing on all. Tracking should begin in about two weeks. Busy, but keep ’em coming. We LOVE busy and we have plenty of capacity!

    Our Tracks Online service is holding its own too with 1 guitar track, 1 piano, 5 pedal steel, 4 fiddle and 8 bass guitar tracks to add to client-produced projects. Trax Online clients are a mix of home recording enthusiasts and recording studios/producers, some in Nashville, some worldwide. This go-round we have 1 for a recording studio client in Ireland, 1 for a producer in Russia!


    “Help Me Jesus One More Time” Mix Finished!

    Here’s a clip of songwriter David Greer’s first demo with us, finished today.

    Based on David’s guitar/vocal rough, we produced two versions, one with  Ray, a baritone, singing lead and harmony and a Bob Dylan style harmonica played by Mike Douchette. as the main lead instrument that I thought turned out great, well enough that David’s father thought it was the best song recording he’d ever heard.

    But David wanted to hear it with a higher pitched vocal and fiddle instead of harp so this posted version features our singer, Jason. We’ll pick it up coming into the pre-chorus section:

    Blake Sheton’s fiddle player, Jenee Fleenor plays both fiddle and mandolin. Other musicians include William Ellis of Montgommery Gentry on drums, Nashville Trax producer Bill Watson on bass guitar, Ron Fairchild of The Oaks on piano and Tom Wellenbacher on guitar who’s played with everyone from B.J. Thomas to Mindy McCreedy, .

    “Jesus Help Me One More Time” is © 2015 David Greer. Bill Watson, producer.