Yellowcard's Ryan Key launches Kickstarter for The Lone Tree Recordings

Yellowcard frontman, Ryan Key is already at the halfway mark of his recently launched Kickstarter campaign for The Lone Tree Recordings, a studio that he hopes will be the platform for the next step in his music career, as well as a place for other artists to start theirs.

Key’s beginnings in the music production business started with a simple email to the Yellowcard website in 2011. The email was from the band manager of Like Torches, an alternative rock band based in Sweden, looking to produce a new record and go on tour. Key and Yellowcard guitarist, Ryan Mendez, teamed up to produce the band’s first record and that project ignited Key’s passion for producing. In early 2015, Key recorded and produced the second Like Torches album on his own in Stockholm, Sweden. “Working with Ryan on our last two records has really helped us reach a new level,” said Jonathan Kärn of Like Torches. “We feel like we’ve created a great sound that we are proud of and Ryan definitely helped us find it.”

Key has had the opportunity to work with and learn from some of the industry’s best production talents, such as Neal Avron, Yellowcard’s producer/mixer for more than a decade, and Erich Talaba, Yellowcard’s Grammy winning engineer, both of whom have become mentors and supporters of this next pivotal step in Key’s career and have the utmost confidence in his ability:

“After working on six Yellowcard albums, I can honestly say that Ryan Key is a true talent,” said Avron (producer and mixer of Linkin Park, Weezer, Aerosmith, Fall Out Boy, Yellowcard). “I have watched Ryan successfully hone his techniques as a songwriter and now producer. Armed with these skills, Ryan truly has an innate sense for what a song needs.”

Ryan comments,

“Having this studio will act as a classroom for me to continue learning and hopefully teaching others how to drive their career. For over a decade, I’ve been lucky enough to learn music production from the best in the business. Now it’s my turn to pay it forward and help other musicians who want to experience and enjoy the recording process as much as I do.”

The Lone Tree Recordings will be a professional studio in Nashville, with state-of-the-art equipment and hand-selected artists will get the chance to take their music to the next level. Once the studio is built, one of Key’s goals is to bring his new musical side project, Will & The Whiskeymen, to life. The Lone Tree will be the place where their first Kickstarter, backer-exclusive EP is recorded. Every backer pledging $5 or more will receive a digital download of the first ever Will & The Whiskeymen song, “Wretched Heart.” Backers at the $30+ mark will receive an exclusive, backers-only EP from the band.

For more details and to get involved and back this incredible project, head over to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lonetreerecordings/the-lone-tree-recordings

The funding sought for The Lone Tree will go solely towards the creation of The Lone Tree Recordings and the projects that the studio will produce. Key partnered with good friends at Adjective & Co., a branding and digital agency, on the other aspects of the project, including developing The Lone Tree brand, the Kickstarter campaign and an extensive range of rewards. There will be 19 different rewards, from a digital download of the first Will & The Whiskeymen track for $5 pledges, to having Key record an acoustic cover song of the backer’s choice for a $1,000 pledge. Those who pledge $5,000 or more will have the chance to enjoy a 90-minute private acoustic set at the venue of their choice with up to 100 people. These rewards are all Key’s way of saying thank you to those who are making The Lone Tree Recordings a reality.

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