Was Your Favorite Country Song Recorded in a Hotel Room?

Was Your Favorite Country Song Recorded in a Hotel Room?

With the audio landscape in front of us today it is not only possible to record vocals to a song anywhere, it is happening more and more with each passing year.

Breland was a guest on Taste of Country Nights to talk about his exciting new song called “In My Truck,” which a reworked version of the popular early 2000s 50 Cent song “In Da Club.”

When I asked him the story of the song, he told an epic story that involved a hotel room and some noise complaints.

“I was actually playing some shows for the troops out in eastern Europe and that’s literally where I cut these vocals was in my hotel room a few miles off the base. The moment struck and I was like ‘I gotta record this right now.'”

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I have had multiple artists tell me over the past seven years that they too have a mobile rig and record vocals not only in hotel rooms but on tour busses and backstage at concerts. When the moment strikes, you gotta go while the iron is hot.

Was Your Favorite Country Song Recorded in a Hotel Room?

My next question to Breland about these hotel vocals was if he gets noise complaints when recording in a hotel room as voices tend to carry into the hallways and through walls.

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Breland tells me “I did get a noise complaint. Someone was like, I guess I was being a little loud doing adlibs or whatever, but I was like ‘You don’t understand, I think this is a hit.”

The “My Truck” singer told hotel staff “‘Y’all don’t know me or anything I’ve done but I think this might be a hit, so I was ok with that [noise complaint].'”

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