RSR302 - Cason Cooley - Writing and Producing Ingrid Michaelson, NEEDTOBREATHE, and Katie Herzig
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Cason Cooley a writer, musician and producer who started music at a young age in Wichita, KS, often travelling across the country with his parents who were a part of the Grammy award-winning Southern Gospel group, The Cathedral Quartet. In 1997 Cason moved to Nashville to pursue music becoming a member of the Normals followed by focusing his attention on songwriting and production.
Cason has written and produced artists such as Ingrid Michaelson, including her singles "Girls Chase Boys" and "Hell No," American Authors single "Deep Water," Katie Herzig, Ben Rector, David Archuletta and more. His work has been placed in dozens of popular television shows including Grey's Anatomy and Pretty Little Liars. Most recently he has produced NEEDTOBREATHE's latest album "Out of Body" and American Author's "Seasons", Drew Holcomb's "Dragons" and Ingrid Michaelson's "Stranger Songs."
Cooley is now based out of Nashville, TN where he works out of his studio The Masonic Lodge.
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| 0:36.9 | I was about to abandon the idea and our bass player runs into the other room. Like, that's great. What are you doing? I'm like, it's just this little thing that I was about to sweep under the rug. It's like, no, no, that needs to be the thing. You need to play that here. And it's, yeah, over time it became something that I really loved. But I think what I learned from that is the experience of playing a part and the experience of listening to a part are two totally different things. |
| 1:10.1 | Welcome to recording studio rock stars. I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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