Discography

The Kid E.P.
Released January 2006
This E.P. was produced for my mother's birthday present. The album was recorded at my home studio and mixed by producer Jim Barnes at brown town studios. The song deals with a child's endless day dreaming, a problem I struggled with in my early days of school.

Inaugural Address E.P.
Released July 2006
This E.P. was released under Inside 55 and was written and released in honor of our fighting men and women abroad. You can listen to the single and read more about by clicking here.

Show & Tell
Released September 2005
Show & Tell follows a good 3 to 4 years of my life in college and early marriage. The album took years to record on my roland 8 track and even more years to bounce the 40 to 60 virtual tracks down to get the mix. In the days before pro tools I have to admit I was proud of this album because I literally did it all myself on some very primitive equipment. It sounds GOOD for the gear i was using, yep I'm quite proud of it!

You Are Good Chris Layton Band
Released Fall 2005
Produced by Jim Barnes, recorded in Hattiesburg, I had to opportunity to record 3 albums during my run with the Chris Layton Band, although Chris is now off the road we do occasionally get together for a weekend gig now and then. This was the last album we recorded together and I had the chance to lay all of the keys and winds on this one. It was a great album and we are all proud of it.

Audience Of One
Released Spring 2002
Recorded this one in the dorm room, IN THE DORM ROOM! Crappy mics and instruments BUT some of my favorite songs. This album was very important to me and I spent a lot of hours writing this one. It goes without saying that your first major project is always a lesson learner, I learned a lot of lessons on this one! Recorded almost entirely mono, it's a real bad sounding album. The major problem was the overly compressed master but that's a story for another time.

Nat's Song E.P.
Released 1999
Wrote this song sort of as a bitter sweet goodbye to New Albany and my friends there, one of who happened to be Natalie McMillan.

Steve Thomas
Released 2000
Within the first month of early rehearsals with the start of what would soon become the Chris Layton Band (even before Daniel joined) Steve Thomas approached Chris needing a studio band to quickly ( in one day) record his album. We rehearsed the music on Thursday and recorded the album Friday morning.

First Priority
Released 2001
First priority in Hattiesburg funded the first Chris Layton Band album in the summer of 2001. We left our first summer of GBA and headed directly to the studio to lay down the tracks we had played live all summer long. Two days later and you have first priority. Ask any one of us what we think of this CD and you'll get and interesting reaction, we were young, young, young!

Evening With You E.P.
Released 2001
Another single released for Jenn's 2001 birthday, An Evening With You's tracks were being recorded for Audience of One and i wanted to give her a copy, so I ran a small run of these E.P.s

Storm E.P.
Released 2001
I wrote this single for my little cousin, Sara Beth, and did a small release of about 20 copies. The song would later find it's way onto the Audience of One Album.