Currently in the works are some returning favorites (Lew Hopson) and some exciting new singer/songwriters. We are looking forward to introducing these artists and their work here, and at RudeLab Records. We think all of these artists are worthy of your attention. Please keep your eye on RudeLab Records for CD release dates and sales information.

*** Ruby Nordby's song "Eyes Open Wide" has been entered in a contest for this year's Lillith Fair. If you vote for her she might get to perform a short set, so please click here.

 Paul Teerlinck:
Singer/songwriter Paul Teerlinck's new CD “Strong And Steady” is a great collection of well-crafted songs and heart-felt vocals. He is recently transplanted from Phoenix, Arizona to here in Winona, MN. Two of his songs are posted on our Artists page.

 Corey Koehler:
Corey Koehler's new mini-CD “Never Too Late” is hard-driving acoustic rock.
Two of his songs are posted on our Artists page.

 Ruby Nordby:
Ruby Nordby's new CD “In My Little Town” is is a two CD set. The first disc is dedicated to the town of Rushford, MN, where she grew up, and was devastated by a flood a couple of years ago. It features her great songs, singing and piano playing, and includes many local musicians. The second disc is batch of her solo piano compositions and is a fine record on it's own. Two of her songs are posted on our Artists page.

 Trevor Marty:
Trevor Marty's new CD “Troubled Times” is a rootsy, bluesy, acoustic journey from the backporch to the highways, with a little boxcar in between.
Two of his songs are posted on our Artists page.

 Lew Hopson:
We are very excited about the completion of “Sing N4U” with old friend and former band-mate from Los Angeles, the great soul singer Lew Hopson, currently out of Houston, TX, with the RudeLab house musicians and guest saxophonist, David Woodford of Los Angeles. Two of his songs are posted on our Artists page.

 Chris Kendall:
Chris' second CD, "Let's Take A Walk", is a new collection of great songs, filled with stories, humor and color of the Midwest. Featured musicians are Mark "Gundy" Gunderson on stand-up bass, Tom Moncrieff on dobro and guitar, and Betsy Neil on fiddle. Link to recent gig photo. Two songs from this CD are posted on our Artists page.

 McLooney Tunes spin-offs:
We're changing our web design business over to Winona Web Works and keeping McLooney Tunes for music production only. “WWW” can be found at www.winonawebworks.com, for details and links of our site designs.
In addition, we will be starting RudeLab Records for the purpose of promoting some of the artists here, and selling their CD's. www.rudelabrecords.com.

 Hip-Hop Loop Factory (the GrooveLab):
McLooney Tunes is geared up to support Hip-Hop artists by incorporating several popular Loop-based programs in the RudeLab. Fruity Loops, Reason, AcidPro, and Spectrasonics Stylus RMX are some of them. We've organized our extensive sample, loop and SFX library for making our own killer beats. Or roll your own!

 McLooney Tunes in the News:
Fleetwood Mac connection: Our own Tom Moncrieff is being featured in an extensive Q and A session at the Fleetwood Mac fan site www.fleetwoodmac.net. Topics include his involvement with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks before they joined FM and became mega-stars, learning from them in the studio, and how to avoid the big time!

McLooney Tunes was featured in the Winona Daily News in an article by Kari Knutson. In the interview she covered what we do, why we do it, and the age-old mystery "How did you guys ever end up in Winona?" Musical Couple...

 RudeLab Update:
The RudeLab has been very busy upgrading all of our computers to Custom-built Pentium 4/3GHz units with tons of ram, and larger 19" dual monitors. Also, we now are using two UAD-1 DSP cards giving us even more of those modelled vintage recording processors we love to use along with the ability to record 24 channels of 96k/24bit recording with our MOTU 24 i/o interface.

 Copyright tips:
We've recently added links to help with copyrighting your material. There is a link to the US Copyright office, and a number of links for down-loadable copyright forms in PDF format. Use the links under "Misc Resources - Copyright Info" on our Links & Info page.

 Digital Audio tips:
We've added links to some great on-line resources for anyone into doing Digital Audio on the PC. Excellent documents can be found for optimizing your PC for the WinXP OS by using the links under "Misc Resources - Digital Audio" on our Links & Info page.