I started using the name Broken Radio back in 1991 for a solo project. The song I recorded was called "Rain", which was released on the critically acclaimed vinyl only lo-fi compilation "Hausmusik". Wolfgang Petters, the founder of Hausmusik records helped me out on this and played lead guitar.
My main band in the nineties was a folk-rock group named Borrowed Tunes. We recorded two full length albums and a six song EP while touring Texas in 1997.
In the band’s long process of breaking up I was looking for new ways to play and record my music. That was the time when I started experimenting with computers. Combining modern production techniques with traditional songwriting became the musical idea behind the project, that I named Broken Radio again.
The first song that resulted out of this concept was "Trouble", released on "Jimmy Gimmi More" a Hausmusik compilation from 1998. The following year "End Of The Road" came out on "Testbildreihe", another compilation album.
Over the years I kept on working on new material, mostly alt. country and blues. I had a bunch of good songs together which I recorded all by myself, using my home studio equipment here at Lost Creek (named after the street I live in).
My main band in the nineties was a folk-rock group named Borrowed Tunes. We recorded two full length albums and a six song EP while touring Texas in 1997.
In the band’s long process of breaking up I was looking for new ways to play and record my music. That was the time when I started experimenting with computers. Combining modern production techniques with traditional songwriting became the musical idea behind the project, that I named Broken Radio again.
The first song that resulted out of this concept was "Trouble", released on "Jimmy Gimmi More" a Hausmusik compilation from 1998. The following year "End Of The Road" came out on "Testbildreihe", another compilation album.
Over the years I kept on working on new material, mostly alt. country and blues. I had a bunch of good songs together which I recorded all by myself, using my home studio equipment here at Lost Creek (named after the street I live in).
Some of the stuff came out on compilations and featured songs like "Something To Live For" or "One Way Trip" The latter was released on "You Can’t Always Listen to Hausmusik" which also included my collaboration with Jersey, the song "No Honky Tonks Around Here".
Living Stereo the first full length Broken Radio album has been a work in progress for years and was originally supposed to be released in 2003. But I never managed to finish those recordings and with the time passing some songs were dropped others were added. I had to rerecord parts of the album after a severe hard drive crash - just to name one of the "disasters" that happened.
To make a long story short: After almost seven years Living Stereo is ready for release and nothing is going stop me to get it out. The fact that our label is going out of business at the very same time has some irony to it, but hey – just another disaster on the way.
I was intensively writing and recording new material in the last months. And maybe most important, I bought a pedal steel guitar which I am learning to play. We’ll see where this will get me but I hope that it’s not gonna take another seven years for the new songs to see the light of day.
Living Stereo the first full length Broken Radio album has been a work in progress for years and was originally supposed to be released in 2003. But I never managed to finish those recordings and with the time passing some songs were dropped others were added. I had to rerecord parts of the album after a severe hard drive crash - just to name one of the "disasters" that happened.
To make a long story short: After almost seven years Living Stereo is ready for release and nothing is going stop me to get it out. The fact that our label is going out of business at the very same time has some irony to it, but hey – just another disaster on the way.
I was intensively writing and recording new material in the last months. And maybe most important, I bought a pedal steel guitar which I am learning to play. We’ll see where this will get me but I hope that it’s not gonna take another seven years for the new songs to see the light of day.
