Welcome to Sierra Drive Sounds.
The songs below have had varying degrees of SDS involvement. Ranging from full writes, arrangements, audio production and executive production. Enjoy!
About
Artist incubator, homegrown nano-Label, production team, you get it–we do a little bit of everything here in the 757. Sierra Drive Sounds (SDS) is a project spun off from the founding members of the band, Buddha Council. It is led by Travis Mansell, longtime BC manager and sometimes BC writer and instrumentalist. SDS pools the resources garnered from years of touring and over 50 songs recorded and released. Current projects include original song productions released as Sierra Drive Sounds, the “Music Scene” podcast, Sierra Drive Sessions – a live acoustic concert series of our podcast guests, and artist launch and management (Jonquan), and label services (Jake Retting).
Blog
We Write Our Own %&*!
We wrote our own chord progressions, our own drum fills, our own bass lines, guitar solos, lyrics and harmonies. We created our own marketing materials, filmed our own videos, booked our own tours, built out tour buses and designed our own album covers. We learned from our mistakes—usually, and picked one another up when we …
Take the Train – Blog #3
I took a mostly empty train to visit family recently and was given some time to reflect on my current musical projects and all the projects I’ve shelfed for now due to lack of time and resources. Initially, I was a touch frustrated with the list of items I haven’t been able to get to. …
Achieving success in the music business
I think it safe to say, as young musicians, we all had dreams of limo’s, nice hotels, and fancy things, but success along those lines is frankly unlikely and a bit shallow. That being said, I have seen a multitude of success stories in the music business and the point of this blog is to …
Podcast
Search “Music Scene Podcast” on your favorite podcast outlet to check other episodes.