Piety Street Recording

Piety Street Recording as seen from the northeast corner of Piety and Dauphine streets.

Piety Street Recording is a recording studio at 728 Piety Street in the 9th Ward/Bywater, New Orleans.^[1]

The building was originally a US post office and later housed the Louisiana Center For Retarded Citizens. After a few short term tenants, the building was purchased in 1999 by producer/engineer/musician Mark Bingham and ex-REM manager Jefferson Holt. In 2001 it was rebuilt as a recording facility and christened Piety Street with 3 studios and an apartment which remains Bingham's home base. Piety Street has 2 other partners; artist Shawn Hall who acts as studio manager and producer/engineer John Fischbach. Wesley Fontenot is the studio's chief engineer.^[2][3]

The big room (studio A) features an SSL 4064 G+ loaded 48 channels with 30 outboard mic pre-amps.^[4]

Acts who have recorded at Piety Street include: Pretty Lights, Dr. Michael White, Dr. John, Ryan Adams, Dave Matthews Band, Garage A Trois, Dany Brillant, Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint, Harold Battiste, Terence Blanchard, The Black Eyed Peas, Crowbar, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Drums and Tuba, Joe Sample, Ed Sanders, 3 Doors Down, Steve Earle, Cassandra Wilson, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Harry Shearer, Judith Owen, OK GO, Shannon McNally, John Mooney, Nellie McKay, Erin McKeown, Korn, The Knux, Imagination Movers, Charlie Hunter, Hot 8 Brass Band, Happy Talk Band, Mary Flower, Nicholas Payton, Less Than Jake, James Singleton, Jon Cleary, Bo Kaspers Orkester, Alec Ounsworth, Peter Stampfel, Jay Weigel, and John Scofield who named a CD after the studio.^[5][6][7] Other artists who have used the Piety Street title on their CD's include James Blood Ulmer, Eric Lindell, and Christina Groth.^[8][9][10]

References

External links

• pietystreet.com