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by Michael Dawson

 

Session ace Matt Chamberlain has played on dozens of hit records since first bursting into the limelight with the Texas-based singer-songwriter Edie Brickell in 1991.

In his January 2012 Modern Drummer cover story, we dig deep with the drummer into the mentality of what it takes to be one of the most in-demand session players of the past twenty years. Here we asked Chamberlain to comment on some of the things he learned from making a few landmark records during his illustrious session career.

 

Edie Brickel and the New Bohemians Ghost of a Dog (1991)

This was the first “real” record I ever did.

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We went up to Woodstock to Bearsville Studios. We rehearsed for two weeks in a barn beside the studio, and then we went to the main studio for ten days to track. We had just gotten off the road from touring for a couple years, so this record was more about ju