Crossroads Recording Studio provides creative outlet

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BRANSON MO NEWS: Music is used as a creative outlet by many, but for some, music is more than a hobby. For those who want to make a career out of music, there is a resource offered in the basement of the Texas Tech Library.The Crossroads Recording Studio is free for all students, staff and faculty at Tech who want to record music, voice-overs or any other audio publication.In 1999, Curtis Peoples, associate archivist at the Southwest Collection/Special at Collections Library, was working the library when Don Caldwell Studios closed in Lubbock. Peoples said he persuaded the dean of libraries and the head of the studio to agree to save the tapes produced at the studio in the archives.
In 2002, Peoples was hired full-time to work on the Crossroads of Music Archive. Lubbock was dubbed the crossroads of Texas music by the state legislature, he said, and this was how the idea of starting a recording studio originated.Peoples said in early 2011, the then-dean of libraries Donald Dyal asked him to build a recording studio.“At that time, all we had as recording studios were on the second floor of the library,” Peoples said. “They had closet type individual studios. …



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