Randall's Ramblings
Steve Sizemore
Steve Sizemore was the first real musician that I ever recorded. I first met Steve sometime in the late 1990’s when he had a record store in Hazard, KY called Penny Lane Music. I was aware of Steve earlier through his work with a local popular band called Contagious. Steve and I became friends through our mutual love of the music of Bruce Springsteen. We would share and trade Bruce bootleg CDs.
When I opened my recording studio in 1999 Steve brought me my first real professional work. Steve was also a huge KISS fan and had been invited to work on a project called A World Without Heros. This was a project put together by the KISS Army Online. I got to record Steve’s vocals for a couple songs that he did on the record. Steve taught me one of my first recording tricks when we slowed the ADAT tapes down so he could sing a particular part a little lower and then put the tape back to regular speed so the high part was right on. KISS was never really my kind of thing but Steve loved those guys and once he told me that KISS kept him out of the coal mines because when he heard them he knew he wanted to be a musician.
Over the years Steve would come over to the studio for various projects that he was working on. Steve and I took a road trip to Atlanta in 2008 to see a Bruce concert. Here are a couple things we recorded from way back. Steve’s acoustic version of Thunder Road and one of his originals called She Graces Me. Steve is still out there rocking almost every week with his band SSG. Try to catch him if you can.
Thunder Road
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