My Favorite Way to Record an Album: Live, with Sincerity and Adrenaline
You’re transported to those days of recording: friends laughing over happy accidents that’ll make the cut, and most importantly the energy of people playing music together.
Alex McMahon
Alex McMahon is a New Mexico native who calls Albuquerque home. Alex is a professional musician, and a member of Albuquerque’s own Wildewood, as well as a hired gun with various studios and bands around the state. Guitar, pedal steel, dobro and mandolin are just some of the instruments he plays in the eclectic trio, who recently released their first self-titled full-length album. As a UNM graduate, Alex supplements playing music full-time by freelance writing as well as general contracting work. The future for Alex and Wildewood involves traveling out of state to support the new album, as well as writing and recording new material in down time.
Late-Night Tacos: A Musician’s Love Story
By the time I’m done playing, packing up, and paying the bar bill, I’m most likely hungry/hangry and any decent restaurant is closed. Enter Taco Cabana.
Telemasters of the Universe
To play a well set-up guitar is almost intoxicating—but to be involved in the creation of the guitar, that’s sublime.
As Live as Possible
Some of my favorite albums are born in noisy rooms, with hard-soled shoes on wooden floors, and feel like the band’s playing in a living room, just for you.
Wildetour: Wildewood’s Maiden Voyage Out of New Mexico
The audiences we encountered in the Pacific NW were incredibly gracious, quiet and attentive. Not even the slightest jest, heckle, or catcall. Surreal.
Why I Love Playing in Albuquerque
There are a lot of reasons to love living in Albuquerque (Mary and Tito’s stuffed turnovers spring to mind) and even more to love playing here.
Have Guitar, Will Work Enough to Keep Doing Just That
It doesn’t take long to realize how difficult (though not necessarily impossible) it is to make a living by playing music alone.
Don’t Tread on These Tracks: Home Recording
Wildewood’s album was recorded entirely in Albuquerque’s South Valley in a quaint adobe home near the river.