This is Rachel Lee Walsh. She’s pretty awesome.

This was the first time it occurred to me to snap photos of our studio. Rob likes to have the microphones just so, and you can tell in the sound quality of my final project. If you need a sound engineer in Brooklyn you should hire him and pay him lots of money. He’s worth it.

Rachel and he were scheming to play together, because she noticed his upright base in the corner of our sound booth and found out that he used to play blue grass. She has a country/folk/blues kind of thing going on. I think they’d rock together.

At one point in the interview I say to her, “Oh, you are of my people” which is a weird thing to say, I know, but the way she writes songs is from the perspective of wanting to tell a human story, and this is the way I do my podcast. Her writing is both clever and simple.

This is Rachel’s guitar strap, and I think it’s SO cool. It’s from Kelly Horrigan.

To listen to our interview, go to the interview page at HeyBrooklyn.com or type Hey Brooklyn into iTunes.

When Rob’s company went under, it was right after they had purchased about $20,000 worth of recording studio stuff so that Rob would have a place to work.  All of it is top-of-the-line stuff that he hand-selected, including an 8x8x8′ recording booth.  Since they had to liquidate it, he submitted a bid and, after a few nervous days of waiting to hear from the powers-that-be, we found out he won the auction!  He’s getting all the equipment at a fraction of what it cost.  This also means we will now have an 8x8x8′ recording booth in our apartment.  Which is awesome.  (Right?  RIGHT?!)  *sigh*

Anyone want to come over and record an album?  I’m wicked on the egg shaker.