September 3, 2009

Welcome to the first blog for Hicks With Picks. We are the house bluegrass band at Rock Spring Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, which makes us, as far as we know, the only Presbyterian Church on Piedmont Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, situated near Fat Matt's Rib Shack and the Gorilla Car Wash, to have its own, in-house bluegrass band with 2 IT guys, an accountant, a jazzercise instructor and a reporter. "Find Your Niche And Fill It," that's what we say.

The reason to start a blog now is we are about to come out with a new CD. This would be our second CD. We recorded the first one in the basement of the banjo player on borrowed equipment set up conveniently close to a tub of beer. It was a huge hit (I think we sold hundreds of them! We pretty nearly "went linoleum" on that one). This time we were able to record in one of the great recording studios of America, Doppler Studios in Atlanta, Ga. For all we know it's one of the great recording studios of the whole universe, but we're checking that out.

We're also only using songs written by our banjo player, because we know we can stiff him on royalties. You can't sue yourself, right? Actually, he probably could but he's too cheap to pay separate lawyers both to sue and defend himself, so we're home free.

So far, we have recorded the songs and we have a preliminary mix that's we've really, really enjoyed listening to, and as soon as we can figure out how this blog thing works, we'll put a sample here for you to hear.