Tracy Grammar

Grammer discovered the tracks for Little Blue Egg during an emergency archiving project in the summer of 2010, a full eight years after Carter’s death. Rescuing the original ADAT tapes from a moldy basement where they were stored, she happily discovered that the tapes were in pristine condition. As she digitized the tapes in real-time, Tracy pored over old
studio notes about the recordings.
“Tears flowed, I laughed out loud, memories flooded back,” Grammer remembers. “It felt like a miracle to hear… Show more Dave’s voice — and our voices, together — singing old songs that sounded new again, along with others I had forgotten about entirely.”
From a total of about 30 tapes, Grammer compiled 16 songs worth of release — several of which had never before been published. She spent two days in Portland, Oregon that fall mixing the songs with Bob Stark at Kung Fu Bakery Recording Studio, which has produced recordings for such big-name acts as The Decemberists and The Shins. After a brief re-mixing session, an 11-song collection was brought to Grammy-winning indie folk label Red House Records.

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