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In 2009, Josh Rheault began emailing demos from his apartment in Los Angeles to friend, composer and Boston-based drummer, Sammy Dent. As the months carried on, song ideas took shape, and Josh parted ways with his former band and busy LA-life, returning home to north-central Connecticut to start something new. Tucked into this farm and forest-littered landscape is ‘The Barn’, a rehearsal/recording space that Mercies now calls home. It wasn’t always a functional space though. What was used for decades to hang tobacco grown on adjacent farms had become just an oversized storage shed.
But in the Fall/Winter of 2010/11, new life was breathed into the structure as Josh and his family started renovating.
Paralleling this restoration project was the recording of Mercies’ debut LP Three Thousand Days. ‘It started getting pretty cold in the Barn, and we’d sometimes have to turn the electric heaters off to have enough power to run the recording gear,’ states Josh. They even recorded some percussion parts with pieces of construction debris they found laying around. Sammy adds, ‘I dropped a can of nails and wire nuts and lightheartedly said to Josh, ‘sounds like a good shaker, let’s record that!’ So we did.’ Chronicled on Three Thousand Days is this intense, creative and inaugural period for both Josh and Sammy; a moment-in-time aided by family and friends. ‘’One of those releases that engages within a few bars; immediately feeling like something special. Something important. Something to keep around, something to tell your best friends about.’ ’ My Old Kentucky Blog
Paralleling this restoration project was the recording of Mercies’ debut LP Three Thousand Days. ‘It started getting pretty cold in the Barn, and we’d sometimes have to turn the electric heaters off to have enough power to run the recording gear,’ states Josh. They even recorded some percussion parts with pieces of construction debris they found laying around. Sammy adds, ‘I dropped a can of nails and wire nuts and lightheartedly said to Josh, ‘sounds like a good shaker, let’s record that!’ So we did.’ Chronicled on Three Thousand Days is this intense, creative and inaugural period for both Josh and Sammy; a moment-in-time aided by family and friends. ‘’One of those releases that engages within a few bars; immediately feeling like something special. Something important. Something to keep around, something to tell your best friends about.’ ’ My Old Kentucky Blog
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