Easley McCain Recording
recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee
Easley McCain Recording is an American recording studio, based in Memphis, Tennessee, notable for recording musicians such as Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Oblivians, Grifters, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Come, White Stripes, Townes Van Zandt, Pezz, Jeff Buckley, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Guided by Voices, Lydia Lunch, Box Tops, Rufus Thomas, Wilco, Cat Power, Modest Mouse, The Amps, The Cooters, The Walkmen, and The Cuts.
History
Easley McCain Recording began in the late 1970s as Doug Easley's rudimentary, four-track recording studio in the woods near the Wolf River bottoms in Memphis, recording blues musicians like Mose Vinson, as well as local rock bands. In the early 1980s Easley operated "Easley Recording" out of a hand-built garage studio behind his home near University of Memphis. During this period, bands such as Tav Falco's Panther Burns came in to record; Alex Chilton produced an album for a Detroit group called The Gories the last year the studio was located in Easley's garage.
By 1990, Easley, with new partner Davis McCain, had found a larger midtown Memphis facility for the recording studio and moved into it by the next year. McCain had been the sound man at a 1980s local alternative music nightspot called The Antenna Club. The new Easley studio site was originally built in 1967 as "the Onyx" for Don Crews, who had been a business partner at American Sound Studios with producer Chips Moman. Moman and Crews parted in 1972, with Crews establishing his own recording studio at the Onyx location.
Easley McCain Recording's business began to attract more clients from outside Memphis in the early 1990s, after local Memphis group the Grifters grew in popularity and advertised the studio's phone number in their liner notes. Indie rock bands from around the country including Pavement, Sonic Youth, and Come began recording there.
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