Oakley Hall - Oakley Hall

On the coldest weekend felt in Brooklyn in the winter of 2003, eight musicians who made up the first incarnation of Oakley Hall took to the studio. Once located on a Brooklyn loading dock, the since razed Eastwood Studio and Studio Tropicale (the site of Oneida's recordings) housed the recording session that resulted in Oakley Hall's self-titled debut. The group's vocalist, multi-instrumentalist Pat Sullivan, will recant that the band had two reasons to be inside the barely heated studios that weekend -- one being the extreme cold, the other being the raising of the newly inaugurated terrorism color alert scale by the U.S. Read More