We recently connected with Earl Wilt and have shared our conversation below.

Earl, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. What sort of legacy are you hoping to build. What do you think people will say about you after you are gone, what do you hope to be remembered for?

That the songs I helped produce and play on will continue to be enjoyed by my clients, their friend and family, as well as other people who happen to discover the music we made together.

Earl, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I’m a lifelong music lover and have been a musician since 3rd grade. I am primarily a guitarist, but also am proficient on other instruments such as bass, drums, keys, and vocals. I graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1988.

I started recording as a hobby, to write, perform, and produce my own original music. In the late nineties I started taking on clients part-time, as I felt my experience in recording justified moving towards making it my profession. In 2001 I started Jamland Studio and have been running it full time ever since.

The studio is a full-service project recording studio. I also teach private instruction for guitar, bass, drums, vocals and production/engineering. I have recorded and produced, as well as co-written music in almost every genre you can name and have worked with a vast variety of people of all ages, backgrounds, and experience.

I am most proud of the many returning clients that keep coming back, some after many years together.

We’d love to hear the story of how you turned a side-hustle into a something much bigger.

During the nineties, my recording studio was set up for my own projects, mostly as an expensive hobby. I took on a few clients on the side, but my profession was in sales.

After I got married and my wife and I had a baby on the way, we decided that during the day I would take care of our little girl while my wife worked, and then when she came home, she would take care of the baby and I would take on recording clients and students. We had a second child a year and a half later and the same arrangement continued to work until they were ready for school. Once that happened, the studio went full time and it’s been my full time job for the last 21 years.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

Creatives may work alone or in collaboration, and creatives need to have the flexibility to move between those two scenarios. Creativity is a natural inborn attribute, but as in most things, it is influenced by the individuals’ experiences and personal knowledge.

Sometimes something can be created quickly and effortlessly, other times trial and error is needed before the desired outcome is achieved.

Contact Info:

• Website: jamlandstudio.com
• Facebook: Jamland Studio