Blue Sky Recording Studio, Blue Mountains

19/03/2024

Happy 77th Birthday to musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer, Ry Cooder. Cooder has been a key collaborator of Buena Vista Social Club and Ali Farka Touré, and played an integral part in their respective stories.

05/02/2024

I am now teaching guitar lessons in Katoomba. If you are out of the area and wish to learn, i offer online lessons also. Send me a message.

26/09/2023

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Private Bass Consultations with Ron Carter are now available...

Bring a bass, a pencil and a notebook, and you will be ready... Maestro Ron Carter is now offering individual instruction via Zoom.

The one-hour sessions cover:
- How to produce a quality and even sound.
- Knowing where the notes are located and how to find them on the instrument.
- How to construct bass lines using The Ron Carter Library.

Note: Hard work and practice, practice, practice are required 😉

Find more info and sign up here: https://ow.ly/5W8050PmctR

Private Bass Consultations with Ron Carter now available.

📸Henry Adebonojo

08/05/2023

Another channel of vintage Neve for the setup.

03/03/2023

Today at 4am, Wayne Shorter peacefully continued on his immense journey into the unknown. He was surrounded by loving family. In his words, “It’s time to go get a new body and come back to continue the mission.” Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

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16/02/2023

I think we spent about 60 days all up in this studio. Sometimes laying good stuff, sometimes not getting anything done.

I think we finished "Love Poem" around day 45.

Excited to show you another piece of my work.
Ed

30/01/2023

Great song. Proud to have been involved with this.

Love Never Runs on Time.

Proud to announce my next single "Love Poem on a Bookmark" will be coming out February 17th!

I am so incredibly proud of this song. First written as a little folk diddy, Chris Gillespie, Ben D'Costa and I then morphed into a masterpiece. The song feels like a place we have all been, and I am excited to invite you into my world with it. The stories, atmospheres, and environments you can create and explore in your mind when you're feeling smitten, and eventually accepting when they're fictional.

In fact, after we finished recording, Chris called it the greatest rejection song he's been involved in. Not sure if I should be proud about that 😂.

Artwork by the lovely .
ben on the drums, recorded and mixed by , mastered by .

Pre-Save link coming soon.

06/01/2023

24/11/2022

Music by Nerida Cuddy - Music, Chris Gillespie on Dobro. Recorded by Chris at Blue Sky Recording Studio, Blue Mountains

12/11/2022

Fantastic photo of movie star GARY COOPER, sitting on the couch with the dog, playing Hawaiian style on his National Tricone, circa late 1920s-early 1930s. I think the dog likes it.

WORLD'S #1 SOURCE of new Nationals and more: www.catfishkeith.com/national-guitars/

Photo thanks to Pascal Mesnier.

01/07/2022

This is young STEFAN GROSSMAN with the 17 or 18 year old RY COODER, taken at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles in 1965. Caption on the back of the photo (look below in the comments section), is by Ry's father, Bill Cooder.

WORLD'S #1 SOURCE of new Nationals: www.catfishkeith.com/national-guitars/

Photo, with thanks, to Charlie Banks from the Ry Cooder Fans Facebook Group.