Petra's 1982 album More Power to Ya, recorded in a music studio located outside of Uvalde, Texas.
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In the interview, Celebrating “FIFTY” with Bob Hartman of PETRA! , Hartman stated that the band recording its album,
More Power to Ya, in a music studio located outside of Uvalde, Texas.
In the interview Hartman said the Band spent two weeks in a recording studio located outside of Uvalde, Texas. According to Wikipedia, More Power to Ya is the fifth studio album of the Christian rock band, Petra. It was released in 1982.
Hartman said, “Starsong had their own studio in Houston. We were talking about recording there. A guy came into their studio one day and said, ‘I am brokering some recording equipment and want to know if you guys are interested in buying some things. He told this story of this guy in West Texas outside of Uvalde, Texas that built this studio and failed for a number of reasons and he was selling off the equipment. And they started asking, ‘What would it take to get that studio back up to where it could record?’ He told them what they would need. He said, ‘Can you find out how much they would charge us for maybe two weeks there?’
Hartman continued saying, “This studio was really unbelievable. it was really, literally in the middle of a desert. There were all kinds of wildlife around; herds of jackrabbits, deer, snakes, there were centipedes and all kinds of things.”
“We spent two weeks recording and we had a lot of fun. It was very isolated,” Hartman said.
“Petra is an American music group regarded as a pioneer of the Christian rock and contemporary Christian music genres and was, for many years, regarded as the “world’s most popular Christian rock band”.[2] Formed in 1972, the band took its name from the Greek word for “rock”. Though it disbanded formally in 2006, incarnations have played reunion shows in the years since and released two albums in November 2010, and in November 2017. In 2013, it reformed with a new drummer, Cristian Borneo, and recorded a new song titled “Holy is Your Name”, before going back on tour,” according to Wikipedia.
(Editor’s Note) It is unclear where the recording studio was located near Uvalde.
The band is currently touring as part of Fiftieth Reunion Tour.
