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When I first walked into fame, which was we'd seen the, you know,

I'd seen the documentary and just had my entire worldview shaken of that,

I had no idea that Bustl Sholes was even a place. It was like, wait, a bunch of 19-year-old kids from Alabama, Roger Hawkins was 19 on this. Like, what the hell is this? But, you know, the thing is, it's like those pockets and things, you know, like, I'm a big guy. Once I got out of trying to be Danny Carey or Carter Beaufort as a drummer, and I got into like studying what pockets were, like Steve Ferone. Roger Hawkins is one of those ones that I didn't even know I was listening to until I saw the documentary. I remember watching the documentary and then getting to go down and some friends of mine and said, yeah, you can just go by and ask for-and-so, and they'll walk you into the room. And I remember walking into Fame A and getting chills walking in the room, just being like, holy shit, like all this music was done in this room. And that was like my first experience like that where I got to like, you can go up and you just kind of touch it. You know, he'd like, wow, you know. Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help

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Welcome back to Recording Studio Rockstars, bringing you into the studio to learn from recording professionals so that you can make your best record ever and be a rock star of the studio yourself.

My guest today is Jay Tuk, a Canadian-born, award-winning producer, drummer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and mix engineer, now based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

After a 14-year run in Nashville, Jay developed a reputation for his innovative and organic approach to production, working with artists like Randy Houser, Cody Johnson,

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