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Mar 15

Tony Morra commented on Bret Teegarden's group Songwriters

"Hi All!! I'm putting together a session on Monday March 26th here at the Studio. $450 gets your song tracked, provided I get the amount of songs I need to make it happen. Be bass, drums, 1 gtr, keys, aux guy (mando acou fiddle). Let me know as…"

Mar 14, 2012

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"THAT WOULD BE *CHANCE! BUT SPELLING DOESN'T COUNT DOES IT?"

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"TRACKING AND EDITING DRUMS FOR NEW PRESONUS STUDIO ONE v2 DAW. LOTS O'DRUMS! PRESONUS THING IS PRETTY COOL, CHECK IT WHEN YOU GET A CAHNCE!"

Jan 30, 2012

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Jan 7, 2012

Tony Morra commented on Bret Teegarden's group Songwriters

"Hi Guys and gals! I have an interesting situation. I was hired to do a demo session at omni this coming Tuesday the 10. This Tuesday. A few writers had to drop out for one reason or another, so looking to see if anyone needs to cut at least 1 song…"

Jan 7, 2012

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come on...make the whole world sing!

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Nov 4, 2011

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Occupation:: Drums, Producer

Company Name:: The Downtown Batterie

About Me:: Born in NYC into a Family of musicians. My dad was a drummer my grandfather was a drummer. I guess I had no choice. Moved to Nashville 11 years ago. I had the great fortune to play for Kathy Troccoli for 3 years out of NYC. Through that relationship, I found myself in Nashville working more then I was in NYC! I followed my faith and packed up the wife and dog and made the move! God was ever faithful. I got to town and immediately was working with Cajun Country Artist Joel Sonnier! Yes my first gig in town fresh off the NYC Italian boy boat I'm playing with someone as Southern as it gets! It was awesome. I then continued touring with KT as her music director. I then was blessed by one of my dearest friends in town, David Cleveland, by getting the call to do the Crystal Lewis gig. Let me tell you what a joy that was. On that tour, Avalon was the opening act. I mean are you kidding me! You talk about some singers! I think that year,'99, the band that Dave put together played for everybody that year! What a great experience for me. I must Working for Twila Paris was a special time. Her music had a very profound affect on my life. Then Avalon came into there own and I was asked to be their drummer music director. That lasted about 2 years and I was starting to do some more session work around town. So I took that major leap of faith and stayed home to develop this phase of my career! It was slow going at first, so in my down time I was again blessed to be able to do gig with Point of Grace! The girls were a trip. They were and are awesome to work with. A year into that, the session thing picked up and my wonderful wife and I were adopting a baby girl from China so I decided to stay home and let God do his thing, Well we adopted the sweetest girl from China and simultaneously God chose to bless us with a baby boy through Mercy Ministries! Instant Family! At this point in time I decided to put a little drum room together for tracking some little demo projects at home for some programmer friends who were prompting me to do it. Well, a million dollars later and countless hours reading Mix mag, I have had a full blown tracking room in my home. The studio is called the Downtown Batterie!
My main focus is having incredible drum sounds and tracks for you all at an incredible rate. Making it cost effective to put live drums on demos, custom projects that might not other wise get drums do to costs of big studio, cartage and other rising rates.
It has surpassed any expectations that I have ever had! I've worked on many Master recordings, TV and Film work and lately have been doing a number of video game tracks. I've been blessed to work for:
Keith Thomas, Jonathan Crone, Paul Taylor (Winger), Rod Morgenstein (Winger), Matt Bronleewe, Nathan Chapman (Taylor Swift), Regie Hamm, David Mullen, Paul Mills, Matt Huesmann, Rick Cua, Robert White Johnson, Jason Hayes( Warcraft Video Composer), our very own Bret Teegarden!, Paul Buono, Kent Hooper and a million other folks I'm forgetting cause I'm getting older. I need to buy more memory for my brain! Don't ya wish ya could. I still do sessions out and around. It's great to be with a players in a room!
I have also been producing a bit too! At this point I can do full band tracking pretty effortlessly here. So I'm available for that too. No drum cartage fee's! there's half your budget right there:)
Well that's about it! I Look forward to meeting and hopefully working with..... well all of you! I love what I do and Thanks the good Lord that I can do what I love and support my family!
Blessings to all,

Tony M

Website:: http://www.downtownbatterie.com

Number of years working in Nashville area:: 11 Years

Number of years in the music business:: Forever

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Keith Thomas
Phil Ramone
Diane Warren
Guy Roche'
Toby Gad(Big Girls Don't Cry Writer)
Paul Taylor
Rod Morgenstein
Pete Kipley
Nathan Chapman
Matt Bronleewe
David Browning
Lari Goss
Bob Farnsworth
Bryan Lennox
Jeremy Bose
Rick Cua
Chris Davis
Bernie Herms
David Mullen
Toby Mac
Kent Hoope
Sara Hart
Jeff Thomas
Joe Beck
Jonathon Crone
Rob Hawkins
Guy Zabka
John Mays
Jamie Moore
David Cleveland
Regie Hamm
Tim Akers
Salvo
Jim Frazier
Dennis Dearing
Sal Oliveri
Danny Duncan
Brett Milligan
Doug Beiden
Otto Price
Chris Eaton
David Zaffiero
Robert White Johnson
Gary Sadler
John & Dino Elefante
Dean Samms
Billy Sprague
Steve Siler
Artists
Avalon
Anointed
April McLean
Avalon (Music Director)
Carmen
Ceili Rain
Charles Billingsley
Crystal Lewis (1998 Dove Female Vocalist)
The Darins
Greg Long
Henry Kapono of Cecilio & Kapono, “Same World” Tour (Producer: Michael McDonald)
Ian Crockett
Janna Long (Music Director)
Jeff Silvey (Dove Award winning artist)
Jody McBrayer (Music Director)
Jo-El Sonnier
Kathy Troccoli (Music Director)
Katy Hudson
Kelly King
Kim Hill
Larry Howard (Griderswitch)
Marvellettes
Michael O’brien
Michael Ripoll
Michelle Tumes
Nicol Smith
Nicole Nordeman (Music Director)
Nikki Leonti
Out of Eden
Phillips,Craig and Dean
Point Of Grace
Rick Cua
Stevie B. (with C&C Music Factory, En Vogue, Michael Bolton, M.C. Hammer, Huey Lewis)
Susan Ashton
Sweet Sensation (with New Kids on the Block & Wilson Phillips)
Twila Paris (Dove Award winning artist)
Jeni Vernadeau
Kara Williamson
Worship Together (Worship Band/EMI)

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At 10:05am on September 29, 2011, Billy Alexander said…: Tony always brings it. Never let's me down and saves my bacon!

At 10:09am on January 29, 2010, Cheyenne Montanna - Lee said…: Hi Tony,
Nice Drums, fancy Your Pop and Grandpa also drummers, keep it in the family man. Best Wishes

Cheyenne

At 3:16pm on September 21, 2009, Jon Knox said…: Hope all is well and you're doing great! -Jon

At 2:11am on April 21, 2009, Aaron Appleton said…: Hey Tony,
Thanks for the online friendship! I heard about you via Stephanie Smith (who I used to play bass with before heading to Africa). The drums sound awesome on her recordings!!

At 10:33am on January 19, 2009, Charlie Morgan said…: Hi Tony,
thanks for the great compliments. Yes, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra gig was quite a wild experience! I had a few in the EJ band! all the best...CM

At 9:12pm on January 11, 2009, David Browning said…: Hope you're doing well... miss you, dawg!

At 4:09pm on January 5, 2009, Pete Warren said…: Thanks! I'm kinda booked up the first part of this week, but get more free later on. What's your schedule look like?

At 1:35pm on December 31, 2008, Pete Warren said…: Your resume is freaking amazing! Thanks for finding me.

At 8:38am on November 7, 2008, Joy Bastow said…: Yes we can get the impressions done and they are good with me for 2 months. :) Oh goodness! I don't want to work today. LOL Can I take the day off?

At 8:02am on November 7, 2008, Joy Bastow said…: Morning! How are you doing? I am up in Nashville on the 17th & 18th. Did you want to get ear goo squirted in your ears this trip? LOL