Piety Street Recording

Piety Street Recording is a recording studio at 728 Piety Street in the 9th Ward/Bywater, New Orleans.[1]

Piety Street Recording as seen from the northeast corner of Piety and Dauphine streets.

The building was originally a US post office and later housed the Louisiana Center For Retarded Citizens. After a few short term tenants, the building was purchased in 1999 by producer/engineer/musician Mark Bingham and ex-REM manager Jefferson Holt. In 2001 it was rebuilt as a recording facility and christened Piety Street with 3 studios and an apartment which remains Bingham's home base. Piety Street has 2 other partners; artist Shawn Hall who acts as studio manager and producer/engineer John Fischbach. Wesley Fontenot is the studio's chief engineer.[2][3]

The big room (studio A) features an SSL 4064 G+ loaded 48 channels with 30 outboard mic pre-amps.[4]

Acts who have recorded at Piety Street include: Pretty Lights, Dr. Michael White, Dr. John, Ryan Adams, Dave Matthews Band, Garage A Trois, Dany Brillant, Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint, Harold Battiste, Terence Blanchard, The Black Eyed Peas, Crowbar, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Drums and Tuba, Joe Sample, Ed Sanders, 3 Doors Down, Steve Earle, Cassandra Wilson, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Harry Shearer, Judith Owen, OK GO, Shannon McNally, John Mooney, Nellie McKay, Erin McKeown, Korn, The Knux, Imagination Movers, Charlie Hunter, Hot 8 Brass Band, Happy Talk Band, Mary Flower, Nicholas Payton, Less Than Jake, James Singleton, Jon Cleary, Bo Kaspers Orkester, Alec Ounsworth, Peter Stampfel, Jay Weigel, and John Scofield who named a CD after the studio.[5][6][7] Other artists who have used the Piety Street title on their CD's include James Blood Ulmer, Eric Lindell, and Christina Groth.[8][9][10]

In August 2013, owner Mark Bingham shuttered the studio after 12 years of operation. When asked about his decision to vacate the space, his response was, "The spiritual intention of the city of New Orleans and its music scene is vastly different than it was 10 or 20 years ago," "It would have been fine to keep going, but I felt the world had changed.”[11]

Less than a year later, Alex Ebert (lead singer of the band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) plunked down $750,000 for the 4,865-square-foot studio in the Summer of 2014.[12]

References
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  11. "After 12 years, music man Mark Bingham shutters Piety Street Recording studio". NOLA.com. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  12. "Musician Buys Former Piety Street Recording Studio for $750K". Curbed New Orleans. Retrieved 2018-02-25.


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