Bowling Royal
2022
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About Bowling Royal
We stayed busy during the pandemic of 2020 through 2021, and although the pair were on different coasts, progress was steady on the third album by Baby Grand "Bowling Royal". Haley moved to Arizona to get some education on being a motorcycle mechanic (and to get a change of scenery) and Colby slaved away in a cabinet shop day by day.
By this time, it was never a question about if there was going to be another album, it was just a question of when. One day, after Haley had come back from Arizona, we were cooking something (we loved the concept of Spoonerisms at the time, still do) and joked that a "Rolling Boil" became a "Bowling Royal".
Every time we started a new project we obviously wanted it to be better than the last, and so we bought a drum set and added percussion to our songs (a wild concept at the time).
“Misunderstood” was probably the first song we recorded, and from the beginning we felt the album was in a different league from our first two. “Hungry Soul” was an older song, written around 2012. Recording “Manic” was its own adventure, hyperventilating and screaming into microphones for hours. “Eulogy” was the final song recorded before the album’s release on June 12, 2022.
Most of Bowling Royal was recorded at Colby's house in New Kent, a sort of farm-type-family-holler-situation that belonged to his then wife. “The Road” and “Interlude in Cahoots” were recorded at our Nanny’s house shortly before she died.
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Baby Grand's first studio album was recorded over the summer and fall of 2018 in Southside Richmond, VA on Enfield Avenue. It is raw, unprocessed, and confessional. We gave no thought to what our sound was and how we wanted to present ourselves, we just sat down at the piano and started writing.
Recorded mostly on a pair of condenser mics, the album is prominently composed with an out-of-tune piano that came from our deceased aunt Sherry, and an old chord organ we salvaged from our grandmother's basement.
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