Louise’s new release, “Paris”, was produced by Cliff Eberhardt with a full band featuring Broadway musician, Seth Farber (“Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”), on keyboards, Violinist Carol Sharar, Dave Trenholm on saxophone, Mark Fraser on cello and Pete Adams on pedal steel. The band also included Paul Kochanski (Lori McKenna) on bass and drummer Keith Levreault along with background singers Bobby Sweet (Arlo Guthrie) and Lara Tupper. Stylistically more “torchy” than her previous releases, Louise has also been co-writing with living folk legend, Tom Paxton, via Zoom for two years and three of their songs appear on the new album.

“Paris”, the album, began recording on May 5th, 2024 at Side Track Studios in Northampton, MA with engineer, Shawn “Gundy” Gundersen and producer, Cliff Eberhardt, at the helm. Eberhardt had a vision for the album and had begun the arrangements months prior, “The production on Willie Nelson’s “Stardust” album has always inspired me and I wanted that kind of simplicity for Louise’s record. When we got to the studio and found that it didn’t have a piano, but it DID have a B3 organ and Wurlizer piano, I knew that the limitation was going to be the way. I asked keyboardist Seth Farber to only play figures and no chords, so he played with his right hand only and his left hand up in the air! I wrote the string arrangements at home on my iPad in the evenings. We wanted a lot of SPACE in the songs, and mixing was more about removing notes rather than trying to fit them all in.”.