yes. here's some info:Sachsen wrote:Any idea why it's called The Dogtown Sessions? Does that have something to do with St. Louis?
"Farrar's rehearsal and recording space, Jajouka, is housed in a squat brick building on a quiet residential corner of a neighborhood called Dogtown. It's a long room, riotous with amps and instruments in road cases, two mixing boards, a melodica, and an ancient organ, cluttered with copies of Rolling Stone, a dog-eared paperback memoir by Al Kooper, color photos printed from the Internet of the Beatles and William Shatner. The yellowed walls are mostly bare, save for an old photo of a children's ensemble and a St. Louis city map tacked above a ratty couch.
This is actually the second Jajouka; the first, where Son Volt recorded its 1998 album Wide Swing Tremolo and Farrar tracked his 2001 solo debut, Sebastopol, was in Milstadt, Ill., southeast of St. Louis. Directly below this current space is a professional studio called Broom Factory; upon moving in, Jay punched a hole in the floor and ran cables to Broom Factory's control room. As a result, the tracks that make up his new disc, Terroir Blues, were performed upstairs at Jajouka but recorded below at Broom Factory.
Farrar started the work that yielded Terroir Blues here in the spring of 2002. That's when he began toying with a digital sampler, recording bits of notes and noise, then manipulating and reversing them. As the weather warmed he made time nearly every day for music-not as easy as it used to be for a man now married with a four-year-old son and a daughter born last April. He sat in this studio working out melodies on guitar, scrawling lyrics on scraps of paper, and recording his ideas; by summer's end he'd penned an album's worth of songs."
full article - http://www.jayfarrar.net/press/harp03.htm