I became intrigued by audio recordings at an early age long before the cellular phone took over the world. In the 1960s, my family would send 1/4” audio tapes to my father who was stationed overseas. Hearing myself on playback sounding completely different than the way I sounded inside my head sent me on a lifelong obsession with audio.
Then came the music. Harry Nilsson’s cover of Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin” came creeping out of the family station wagon’s AM radio–music that seemed like it was from another world. The same thing would happen to me again a decade later when I heard The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop” causing me to throw out most of my records that came before them.
After a few years of rocking in a post-punk band in the neon haunted clown house known as Myrtle Beach, I realized I didn’t wake up someday 50 years old playing in a bar band in Margaritaville Hell. So in the mid 1980s I headed off to Nashville to do what people do in Nashville – make records. I worked at the Castle recording studio assisting for Music Row artists like Alan Jackson and George Jones by day and playing in clubs and recording at home by night in a little room of the house that would become Beech House Recording.
From there I went on the road with gospel producer Sanchez Harley recording artists such as Albertina Walker and Kirk Franklin while continuing to put out my own records and tapes on Bloodsucker Records. One of those releases was a split 7” vinyl with Cyod and Lambchop that led to 20 years of recording Lambchop and touring all over the world.
After 30 Years in Nashville, I decided it was time to relocate the Beech House to the ocean and swamp of Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Feel free to contact me about recording /producing and or mixing your jams.
As for now I’m still surfing – searching for that perfect audio wave.
Mark Nevers