Nashville Trax Studio

14/06/2024

1st song off the most recent Swansons album dropped today, the music recorded/arranged/produced right here at Nashville Trax using our amazing musicians:

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29/05/2024

Today's morning and afternoon sessions...legends... who prove it on every track.

25/05/2024

Need Trax? Upcoming: Legendary session guitarist Brent Mason, 5-29-24; Five times CMA Musician of the Year Jenee Fleenor 6-10-24, fiddle and mandolin. Pictured is Charlie McCoy: Session leader on Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde. Harp on George Jones He Stopped Loving Her Today. Sax on Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman, Musical Director for Hee Haw for 19 years. Harp on Delta Dawn...hundreds more! He'll be here this coming Wednesday and he just might be good enough to do your song justice? Order your track(s) today! Text or call 615-319-8616.

22/05/2024

Our new state-of-the art mix station. It allows us to virtually mix your project in various mix rooms around the world and check mixes in multiple environments- in a car, on earbuds, in a dance club, etc.

21/05/2024

Breaking News: Nashville Trax has been nominated for Independent Producer/Production Facility of The Year by The Josie Awards which will be held in October '24 at The Opry here in Nashville.

21/05/2024

When planning your next song, consider adding one of the biggest bangs for your buck: background vocals. They will enhance and lift your song to a more polished, professional level than you thought possible.

Our singer Brittini pictured below delivers yet another stellar performance. And she'd be happy to do the same for your song(s) whether it's part of a Nashville Trax production, or a song you are self-producing at home.

Book your project now! Text or call 615-319-8616

20/05/2024

Yes we do full band production, singles albums but also tracks for those who self-produce. Need to enhance your project with a great foundation- drums and bass- you can build on? Maybe ear candy from a mandolin? Send us a .wav or .mp3 quick mix of where you're at and we can add pedal steel, fiddle violin, viola, acoustic guitar, piano, electric guitar, sax, tamborine, shaker. Call or text 615-319-8616.

11/05/2024

Feedback just in: "Thrilled. I love you, Nashville Trax!! I kind of forgot about this one because I’ve been busy working on some other stuff. So it was both a surprise and perfection. Did I say I love it?"-Pat C.

27/04/2024

Feedback in from Wayne (from Maine) on his trio's song we produced titled "Jesus Is The Reason":

"Hi Bill. This is Wayne.

I wanted to let you know what an awesome job musically was done on this song! In review, everything is tremendous.
The song sounds absolutely fantastic!"

We have produced quite a few albums over the years for them. One song off an earlier album went Platinum. One album won the NACMAI Gospel Album of the Year Award.

01/03/2024

High praise for our work on Take Turns Driving project:

Hey Bill,

"I just wanted to follow up and thank you again for the work on my tune. The fiddle is fantastic.
The background vocals - I’m really blown away. Exquisite. A word I never use.

I’m a huge Leonard Cohen fan and I have watched the video of “Live in Dublin” several times. On that album and video, the background vocals are a key to the performance and they are pure class and perfectly fitting throughout. That’s what I hear when I listen to Brittini’s work on the tune I sent you.

If you think of it, please thank both artists for me. And thanks to you for putting this all together and for your awesome work on recording."- Pat

10/02/2024

Nashville Trax client Dan singing the song 100 Year War he wrote with his father Steve on the S.I.R. vid shoot.

Photo courtesy of Vic Mendazo.

10/02/2024

Aria on the S.I.R. vid shoot.

10/01/2024

If you are interested in video after your recording is finished, we can provide!

Our next vid will take place at room #2 @ S.I.R. in Nashville. That room features a stage, full p.a. and lights and we're flying in videographer extraordinaire, Vic Mendoza. from Los Angeles.

N.T. clients Steve and Dan from Florida will be featured singing and shredding guitars on their original rock tune, 100 Year War, with a backup band of the Nashville Trax session musicians who played on the project (Bill Watson on bass, guitarist Tom Wild and Jim Riley on drums).

Simple you on acoustic and vocal? Can do. More elaborate full band, MTV style? Got ya covered! Call or text 615-319-8616

09/12/2023

"Damn! ..I like like like it! Brit..you go girl .great job as always." Feedback from Songwriter J.Teal on his song we just demoed, Britt sang lead and bgvs "It's Been A Long Time". Instrumentation: Jim Riley drums; Bill Watson bass guitar; Brent Mason acoustic and electric guitars; Jenee Fleenor fiddle and mandolin; Steve Sturm pedal steel. Produced and mixed by Bill Watson.

13/11/2023

We were present for this awards show for independent artists a few weeks ago, attending with clients who were nominated. It was held at The Opry here in Nashville and it was close to a full house. If you're an independent artist, band or musician it is worth submitting your work for the 2024 Josies. It's free to submit starting January 15th. Here's a list of categories and 2023 winners as listed in the Nashville newspaper, The Tennessean:

On Sunday, the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville hosted an award ceremony for the independent music industry, the 9th annual Josie Music Awards.

09/11/2023

Just in from the We Three Kings camp Christmas project who loved Britt's 6 tracks of bgvs, the ambient steel track, fiddle and mando tracks we added to their already-started recording: "Thanks for all the extra icing on this song Bill. Its excellent."

09/11/2023

5th consecutive win last night for our fiddle/mandolin player, Jenee!

Congratuations to Jenee Fleenor. This lady won the CMA Award last night in Nashville for Musician of the Year. This is her 5th consecutive win for her outstanding fiddle work! BTW, she was playing fiddle on Greg Moses Music song "Good Ole Country Raisin"'. Nashville Trax Studio

01/11/2023

If you couldn't get to our website the last two months it's because the host we had for over a decade went belly up and with little notice, we lost the site and much of the content; the only thing left was the URL giving a WARNING message to visitors. Lovely.

But we finally got the new site running at a new host:

Where Music Comes to Life

15/10/2023

BREAKING NEWS! All the songs for The Jailbirds (Walther and Dirk pictured below) from Germany now have bgvs added and are mixed. mastered and ready for airplay or pressing.

This just in from Walther: "Bill, all the 5 titles are really perfect, and Britt's parts are simply wonderful, as are the violin and keyboard parts. Thank you so much for your advice and guidance.

By the way, I will issue a CD with the 5 titles, and I will send you a few copies, of course." - Walther

03/10/2023

Brittini taking a break from today's bgv session to say, "Hey y'all!"

15/08/2023

Great we could help connect Jack's song with this M.A. P. artist as well as help on the music production. Build it and they will come: Drums: Jim Riley of Rascal Flatts; Acoustic and Electric Guitars: Grammy Winning session legend Brent Mason; Fiddle: 4 xs CMA Musician of the Year Jenee Fleenor, Background vocals: Brittini Black; Bass Guitar: Bill Watson who also produced, mixed, mastered. Thanks Mike!

11/08/2023

RE: Our mix, master and adding Brittini on for background vocals and harmonies: "You hit it out of the park, Bill! Wow is all I can say!!"

Need stellar harmony, background vocals, mixing mastering for YOUR project? Call or text 615-319-8616

08/08/2023

We wanted to remind y'all we have a blog with a lot of info you might find useful if you write songs, have songs demoed, self-produce and need a helping hand or intend to record an album. There are many samples of our work and suggestions on how we can interface with you to make your next project professional level, with baked in marketing points:

Songwriting & Recording in Nashville TN

08/08/2023

E-mail from our clients from Germany who were here for the tracking but left the mixing for us to finish later. This in just this morning:

"Hi Bill,
Thank you for the mixed version of 'The Thrill is Gone'. This is really fantastic. Dirk and I agree, the background singer you chose is also perfect. All in all, this is simply wonderful. You now can go on with mixing the other titles."

Best regards, Walther

21/07/2023

Congrats to songwriter Jack Teale! The demo we produced for him led directly to this pitch and success!

10/05/2023

Feedback just in from client Bob Moser regarding his song Trees in Heaven:

"Hi Bill, What you do in the recording studio is pure MAGIC! You are a musical genius (and that’s not an exaggeration)! You (and your people) did a GREAT job! (I could write more, but your head would become too large for your hat). The female singers is fantastic!!!" (Trees singer Brittney, one of our top two female vocalists, pictured).

14/04/2023

This just in from Steve Hodges in Florida regarding the 3 rock songs we just completed tracking (drums, bass, guitars, keyboards) on for him, sent him the 3 quick mixes of the tracking with only basic mixing at this point:

"Bill, It's all so awesome we can't thank you enough! It's going to be so good! Please thank everyone for a great job! Hoping to see you all soon!"

Regarding a song titled Praying Tonight
we added fiddle to a project Pat C. had already started

"Hi Bill, I just dropped the track into my DAW. It sounds great!! Thank you so much. I didn’t want to make any style suggestions, and this is exactly the kind of feel I had in mind. Very cool process you have"- Pat.

And this from long time client, Sean Morton from Canada regarding adding a fiddle and banjo on his song Forever:

"Thanks Bill. Both tracks sound absolutely amazing!!!"

Need just one instrument track to add icing on your cake? Multiple tracks? Bass guitar and drum foundation to get your project off on the right foot? Full production? Text or call 615-319-8616.