During a tour pitstop in June 2018 The New Mastersounds returned to Welcome To 1979 studios in Nashville, TN to record a follow-up to their 2016 live-in-studio album The Nashville Session. The band performed 15 tunes in front of a small invited audience, recorded them straight to tape using tasty vintage gear, and selected 8 favourites to go onto a vinyl LP, adding two more for the CD and digital releases. 

Their live set was recorded and mixed directly onto ¼" stereo tape reels on a hot summer evening in front of an invited studio audience, members of whom took turns either to watch in the live room or listen from the control room. The first Nashville Session album was organ-only, so to give this one a different flavour Joe Tatton played acoustic upright piano, a Fender Rhodes, a Wurlitzer and a Prophet 5 synthesizer. 

With no edits and no overdubs - just bass, drums, guitar and keyboards - both albums capture the band's heavily-improvised and energetic approach to live performance yet share the same warm, naturally crunchy, analogue tape sound of the classic soul-jazz and funk recordings of the late 60s and early 70s which first inspired the band to start making music together nearly 20 years ago. The compositions presented here are all NMS originals.

Published by Big World Publishing

The New Mastersounds - The Nashville Session 2

The Nashville Session 2

Eazin' Down

Flimsy

3 On The B

Pudding & Pie

Miracles

Yokacoka

Thermal Bad

All I Want (Right Now)

Dusty Groove

Big World Publishing is an independent music publisher established in 2000 by Patrick Meads.

Representing the finest funk, soul, jazz, electronica, Latin jazz, Afro funk, ambient, blues, reggae etc., our artists & writers include: Adam Gibbons aka Lack of Afro, The New Mastersounds, Eddie Roberts, Wax & Herbal T, Mother Earth, Bernard Purdie & Friends, Matador! Soul Sounds, Jack Tyson Charles, Sulene Fleming, Cavviar, The Unity Sextet, Blue Mode, Hot Border Special, JetTricks, Sam Hare, Chris Kibble, Eddie Roberts West Coast Sounds, The Impellers, Eddie Roberts & The Fire Eaters, Karthala 72, Rodina, Papadub, Malena, Orgatronics and Shandy, Will & Grruff.

Music Like Dirt is our classic reggae music catalogue and was established in 1986.

In 2019 Patrick felt the time was right to make some changes and, after a long search to find the right music publisher to continue representing the fantastic artists and writers music in the catalogues, found Sentric Music and sold Big World Publishing and Music Like Dirt to them in November 2019.

Enjoy the music!