Nestled Into 100 Acres of Kentucky Heaven

45 minutes north of Nashville, beyond the city lights and roaring lanes of freeway traffic, fields of corn tremble in moonlight and gleam in the cool Kentucky sun of every brand new day. Doves fly there in less than an hour, zeroing in on the roof of a building framed by country roads and a sea of living green — a habitat that pulses with rhythm, vibrates with melody and life — a place where inspiration springs like clear water from the magnetic rocks of earth — a place aptly called Thunder Sound.

Thunder Sound was the vision and accomplishment of a young man who left us too soon, the late Billy Swayze, an outstanding songwriter and musician himself. He put love into building this place and it’s apparent. For Billy, the creation of Thunder wasn’t a mere commercial effort, it was the building of a house of dreams. 

Thunder Sound is engineered with sonic integrity for clean, deep dimension recording and mixing, but like some of the great studios of the past, Thunder is blessed with unique personality. The board and outboard gear offer a full range of analog and digital tools, meant to partner with the artist in capturing his or her intuitions. Sound likes to live in Thunder’s rooms and imprint itself with distinctive personality, an elusive magic is captured in this place beyond the outskirts of the little town of Franklin, Ky. Franklin is a historic place where, long ago, Johnny Cash married June Carter in the courthouse downtown. One might hope that the past is prologue, so follow the doves out to the country place and wrap yourself in the magnificent sound of THUNDER.