What was it like having Tony Levin as the band’s producer on Whitewater?
Tony has played on some of the greatest albums that have been made. When we were looking for a producer, originally we were thinking maybe we should hire one of these big-time expensive producers, but the budget wouldn’t allow for that. So what ended up being maybe even better than that was having Tony, who has worked with some of the greatest producers in the world and on some really amazing albums. His experience working on a variety of projects really helped make the album flow well and helped us by having his ears when we were there playing in the studio. We recorded the entire album in basically three and a half days. It actually went very smoothly and that was largely in part to having Tony there helping us. He really is an amazing musician and in the role of producer I felt he was able to use his breadth of experience and knowledge and apply it to our work in the studio to produce what I feel is our best CD yet. In fact, we meet up with Tony on Wednesday and we’ll be doing eight
