Gary Laney

Phone:

325-***-**** or 325-***-****

Address:

**** ***** ***** **. **., San Angelo, Tx. 76904

Birth- 4-3-1953

Work History:

****- ****- ******** ** ***** Emporium Recording Studios, Nashville, Tn.

1986-1995- Manager & Chief Engineer at Sound Emporium Recording Studios

Worked with- Keith Whitley, Trisha Yearwood, Don Williams, Alan Jackson, REM, Texas Tornados, Al Kooper, Johnny Cash, Don Henly, Dolly

Parton, Amazing Rhythm Aces, Collin Raye, Jason & The Scorchers, Green On Red, New Grass Revival and Scott Wesley Brown to name a few.

1995-now- self employed jewelry & metal artist

2002- 2009 – Adjunct teacher at McMurry University in Abilene, Tx. Teaching basic jewelry techniques

2001- 2003- manager at W. C. Laney Dental Lab

2003-2011- owner of W. C. Laney Dental Lab

2009- now- self employed recording engineer & producer at Lakeside Recording in San Angelo, Tx. and do live sound and live recordings.

2010-now- self employed – owner of Palmwood Music

Education:

1971- graduated Central High School in San Angelo, Tx.

1975-1977- went to Belmont College in Nashville, Tn.

My name is Gary Laney. I worked as engineer, chief engineer and manager at Sound Emporium Recording Studios (the original Jack Clements

Recording Studios) in Nashville, Tn from 1977-1995. I recorded and mixed albums for Trisha Yearwood, Keith Whitley, Don Williams, Texas

Tornados, Flaco Jimenez, REM, New Grass Revival, Al Kooper, Alan Jackson, Amazing Rhythm Aces, Jason and The Scorchers, Green on Red,

Tracy Nelson, Jamie O’Hara and Collin Raye to name a few. Around 1995 the recording business started to change for me in a way I did not like. I

didn’t like tuning up people and it seemed the songs & singers were getting worse. No substance!

I have always loved the recording process, I just got tired of the music business in general and the country music business in particular. To me it was

– if you can’t sing why are you in here? Fixing a few lines was fine but the auto tune and crap songs just drove me away.

I moved back to San Angelo, Tx. in 1995 to take care of my parents and to develop my skills as a metal and jewelry artist. After a number of tough

years my parents have moved on. After a few years I ran into some really good song writers and musicians. I bought myself a Pro Tools rig and

started recording them. I now have a small music publishing & record company and small recording studio.. I know I am 59 years old but I am a

young 59. My slow Texas drawl may make it seem like I am old or slow but I am full of energy and I am not ready to ride off into the sunset, sitting

on my couch watching television. I have started a recording studio at my house, a small indie record label, a music publishing company and a music

cooperative to try to place songs in film & tv during the last few years. I may not have a world class studio with the best mics, acoustics and console

but the records we have done sound pretty darn good and I have gotten airplay on our recordings on the PBS show Undercurrents and other radio

stations across the United States. Our recordings have played next to everyone from Willie Nelson to Black Keys and they have held up pretty well. I

have had to teach myself promotion to push the records as that is something I had never done before. If you would like to check out our records you

can go to www.palmwoodmusic.com . We also made two videos on the cheap but they are pretty good. Granted the quality is not as good as what

major labels do but I think we did pretty well. I had never made a video before. You can check the videos out at www.youtube.com/watch?

v=g8vPJJSpK-E or http://www.youtube.com/watchv=9KjmxHIGXwQ .

This past year I started a music cooperative with a friend of mine, David Alexander. We are trying to place songs in film & tv. If you would like to

check any of these songs out please go to www.soundcloud.com/10aciousmusic . All of these were recorded at my home studio.

I am very comfortable working under pressure and with all kinds of people. Having been a manager of Sound Emporium Recording Studios I

understand about budgeting, hiring and working with artists and the artist’s management. I also taught a jewelry making class at McMurry

University in Abilene, Tx. for 7 years. Even though I do not have a college degree I do have 18years experience making hit records and 35 overall

years in the audio business. I believe I would be an asset to your business.

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