Lake Fever Sessions Archive

If you're a long time reader of the site, you may recall that I built a site in 2009 for an endeavor called "Lake Fever Sessions." Some friends of mine ran a recording studio called "Lake Fever Productions" and some other acquaintances had a video production house called "Tugboat Productions" - together, they captured performances from a number of different bands and I helped get them on a nice looking site under the Lake Fever Sessions name.

While doing promotion for The Features Some Kind of Salvation LP that I reissued, I ended up posting some in-studio performances from their LFS session and realized it might be a fun challenge to revive the site. The recordings were all still on Vimeo, they were just kind of languishing there.

So, I unearthed an old Dropbox folder of PHP files for the site and got to renovating. The database that powered the site is long gone but the internet archive had all the missing pieces I needed. Many of the techniques used for web development in 2009 are unnecessary now (anyone remember sIFR?), so I modernized where I could. The site is responsive now and uses iframes for video, not objects. Other than that, I tried to leave it alone as a testament to what was.

It was a fun exercise but I hope people do take the time to actually watch the sessions. There are loads of local Nashville bands on there that probably have less broad appeal but sessions from St. Vincent, Cursive, Travis, Brendan Benson, Those Darlins, Sondre Lerche and more should appeal to plenty.

I was proud of it then and I'm proud of it now. Please enjoy Lake Fever Sessions Archive.