MINIVAN GELICALS - EP
My sister and I have finally made a record! We have been singing together since as long as I can remember, but the stars have finally found their convergence and given us the opportunity to make some music together. This is the first thing I did upon returning home to Nashville, and makes me think that moving may have been a good decision.
we cannot say thank you enough to Eric Fritsch. but we'll try, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you...you get the idea.
it was a tremendous pleasure to work with Al Perkins. He produced one of our fathers records in the 70's. one of them neat little "full circle" kinda things.
released June 1, 2010
Engineered and Mixed by: Eric Fritsch at Eastwood Studios
Mastered by: Trevor Sadler at Mastermind Productions
All Songs by: Emily Roley and Matthew Roley
Produced by: Truck Roley
Vocals: Emily Roley and Matthew Roley
Guitars: Matthew Roley and Eric Fritsch
B3 organ/accordian: Reginald Bradley
piano: Matthew Roley and Emily Roley
pedal steel / dobro: Al Perkins
cello: Matt Slocum
mandolin: Eric Fristch
banjo: Matthew Roley
bass: Rachel Loy
drums / percussion: Derek Mixon
FRIENDS OF BADGER MTN.
“BIRDS OF PREY” EP
I started this project with my good friends; Jeff Simpson and Michael Wehling. We recorded in St. Louis MO and Portland OR. Making this record got me through the very emotional time of leaving Portland OR for my hometown of Nashville TN. I had left Nashville in search of something, don't know if I found it or not. But I'll always love and miss Portland.
We recorded in a basement in St. Louis MO, and an attic in Portland OR. We used a lot of different sounds on this record, my favorite was when we recorded my Hammond M100 tone wheel organ in my house with a Tascam 4 track tape recorder. It sounded so good that we decided to go record Jeff's Gulbransen Organ that he had in storage in a garage...and it still sounded fucking great! We were also not shy with the tape echo!!!
credits
Released May 1, 2010
Produced by Truck Roley and Jeff Simpson
Engineered by Matt Keuhne and Jeff Simpson and Peter Rodocker
Mixed by Duane Lundy at Shangrila Studios
Mastered by Trevor Sadler at Mastermind Productions
Matthew Roley: vocals, guitar, banjo, whistling, claps, shaker, tambourine,
Jeff Simpson: Wurlitzer, Piano, Trumpet, Organ, shaker, tambourine
Michael Wehling: guitars, casiotone, wurlitzer, claps, roland string synth
one day we will play a show!
ROGUE MOTEL - EP
I moved to Portland OR in order to explore other musical projects. This is the first record I made upon getting there. Originally we went in to make a demo, but it came out so good that we decided to release it, and looking back on it now, i'm not sure why we called it an EP. There are 8 songs, a few too many to be called an EP and a few too few to be an LP. Maybe we should have called it an IP.
Got some good play on college radio and was licensed into a slew of MTV shows. Yipeee!
credits
Released October 1, 2006
Produced by Truck Roley and Adam East
guitars/vocals: Matthew Roley
guitars/bass: Adam East
Organ/Piano/Wurlitzer: Reginald Bradley
Drums: Jeremy Kaplan
ROGUE MOTEL
“DAYLIGHT BREAKING”
I put this band together when I moved to Oregon. This was our second recording, and first full length. This band was together for roughly 4 years (2005-2009). We had some tracks get played on some MTV shows and on college radio nationwide. There were a whole lot of people in and out of this band over the years, too many in fact.
credits:
Released November 4, 2008
Produced by Duane Lundy
all songs by Matthew Roley
Mixed by Duane Lundy at Shangrila Studios
Mastered by Trevor Sadler at Mastermind Productions
guitar/vocals: Matthew Roley
B3 Organ/Wurlitzer/Piano: Reginald Bradley
Guitar: Michael Wehling
Bass: Adam Hill
Drums: Jeremy Kaplan
MOCKINGBIRD SUN - EP
Mockingbird Sun. I moved back to Nashville and started a pop country band. I tried to play the game, but i lost…I learned some invaluable life lessons though. We made some good music and met met amazing people and traveled all over the world. I’m very thankful for those experiences. This band lasted roughly from 2010 to 2016.