Corner Room Recordings

07/07/2024

Here's the 1999 Corner Room Summer Catalog that was a single sheet of paper that, when folded just right, became a mini-booklet of goodness. It features several baby/toddler photos of band members featured among the titles listed therein. Super fun and pre-internet/pre-smartphone! Take that, Y2K!

10/12/2023

What’s this you ask?
Well, it’s the official Corner Room cassette display box that used to live at a local Chattanooga record store (Chad’s) back in the late 90’s/early 00’s! It is built like a tank and withstood the Y2K changeover with zero problems! It’s even still holding some tapes to this day as it continue to sit in the room that was the original Corner Room Studio A.

09/12/2023

Dingus! It’s a Chrimbus miracle!

No way! An album that (in my opinion) is easily one of the very best self-recorded solo 4-track cassette releases ever, just got uploaded to Bandcamp for a FREE download--The Knight & The Chicken At The Great Wall Of China!

https://theknightandthechicken.bandcamp.com

Originally self-released as a cassette tape 25 years ago in 1998 on Chattanooga's Corner Room Recordings, Knight & The Chicken is/was the solo project of our good friend Eric Buckner (Title One/Season's Glreekins/Regal Beagles)--this album overflows with melody, experimentation, and seemingly on-the-fly arrangements--it's weird and funny and loads of fun!

I'm not on the recording at all, but I was present while it was being mixed, along with Eric's brother Brandon. The three of us toured behind these songs (along with Jim Tate) on the east coast, opening as The Knight & The Chicken for fellow Chattanooga band Title One (which was really just all of us + Kenny Burnap) in the summer of 1999, right when I was starting to make the first Half-handed Cloud album (which all of us are also on).

This picture here shows us performing as The Knight & The Chicken in 1999, Eric in a blue jumpsuit and helmet, me in an orange mummy sleeping bag, Jim in wig & false beard, and Brandon in a conquistador get-up, spontaneously fabricated from drum-kit travel padding.

This album has twenty songs about things like growing human organs on the backs of lab mice, wondering if hummingbirds need a prescription to Ritalin, heartbreak, annoying people, and scary chemical tankers on the freeway.

We love it, and urge you to download it ASAP and share it with your friends, just in case Eric changes his mind and takes it down. Hurry, lo-fi pop lovers everywhere!

04/12/2023

Whoa! This album can rent a car!

ANNIVERSARY: This month marks the 25th Anniversary of The Season's Glreekins--a Chattanooga Christmas music project that I was involved with in 1998!

Here it is for FREE, look:
https://seasonsglreekins.bandcamp.com/album/the-seasons-glreekins

Limited to 100 (or was it 150?) cassettes, and self-released on Corner Room Recordings, the tape featured 10 original holiday songs, recorded on a 4-track cassette machine, and given away to family and friends.

We had a lot of bands at that time--the five members of The Season's Glreekins were all involved in other Chattanooga recording/performance projects, including:

• Title One (https://titleone.bandcamp.com)
• Wookieback (https://wookieback.bandcamp.com)
• The Regal Beagles (https://regalbeagles.bandcamp.com)
• A>Pants (https://apants.bandcamp.com)
• Soupman (https://soupman.bandcamp.com)
• The Knight & The Chicken (https://badgerland.bandcamp.com/track/little-tree)
• etc

The Season's Glreekins project only lasted a couple of weeks and played just one show (pictured). Corner Room Recordings' logo was designed by Eric Buckner. The sole song my kids really know on this Season's Glreekins tape is track 10, one of Brandon's, which has the protagonist buying all their Christmas gifts at a gas station. Classic!

About six months after The Season's Glreekins, I started working on Half-handed Cloud as a solo project (with guests), and a song like Season's Glreekins track "Transformer Manger" leads pretty directly thematically into songs I would go on to make for Half-h the following year.

More pictures here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0b6gUvslHj

15/10/2023

“And what about Chrissy?”
RIP Suzanne Somers

from the album Live Before a Studio Audience

20/09/2023

ANNIVERSARY: This month marks 25 years since the release of Wookieback's 2nd album, 1998's Robots Be One Crazy Weasel on Chattanooga's Corner Room Recordings:

https://wookieback.bandcamp.com/album/robots-be-one-crazy-weasel

In the years before Half-handed Cloud, Wookieback was the main project I contributed to. Like 1997's "Proposed Moon Suit," this Wookieback album was recorded on Eric Buckner's 4-track cassette machine (a Tascam 464), engineered by Brandon. But unlike the 1st album, "Robots" was recorded intermittently over a longer stretch--Brandon & I didn't mix it until 5 months after it was tracked.

All of us sing on this album--Brandon on a full drum kit this time (brushes again), with some not guitar arrangements, + John dusted off his trombone. A 3rd of the songs were recorded as a duo (Matthew didn't live in Chattanooga), & a few hint at things to come with Half-handed Cloud's 1999 debut.

We left several songs off this album, a couple were re-recorded for 1999's Let Me Tell You About This Machine EP, but others remain unreleased, including a song titled "Robots Be One Crazy Weasel."

This is a photo of the cassette of Wookieback's Robots Be One Crazy Weasel, paired with picture of a Chattanooga show we played in Fall 1998, opening for Elephant Six bands Of Montreal & Elf Power.

More photos and descriptions on Instagram here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CxYGez1sHrU

12/01/2022

Thanks to Jim Tate (on bass here), you can revisit the slower side of Title One circa April 2001 (in Columbia, SC).

10/12/2021

Half-handed Cloud and Vest With Hood (Brandon Buckner solo thing) both have Christmas songs over on Badgerland’s bandcamp page! Go do it!

30 track album