Pete Keating, Seven Players and the Making of Louder at London Bridge Studio

An Alt-Country Single Recorded Live with Upright Bass, Organ, Drums and Three Harmony Singers

Louder was recorded live at London Bridge Studio near Seattle in January 2026. Its credits list seven people playing and singing on one song that runs five minutes and 46 seconds. Pete Keating wrote Louder, words and music, after an older musician’s resilient fight with multiple sclerosis moved him. He then released the alt-country single with his band, The Renslow Trestle, on 3 July 2026.

Pete Keating’s Louder is in the playlist below with the folk and chamber folk records this desk keeps returning to. His coverage so far sits on his artist profile. The single reached NewMusic.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Give it a listen, then read on for who played what.

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London Bridge Studio Gave Pete Keating and The Renslow Trestle a Live Room for Louder

A song about pushing through needs a room where a band can push together. Pete Keating picked one built for exactly that. London Bridge Studio has hosted recording sessions since 1985. The brothers Rick and Raj Parashar founded it. The designer Geoff Turner then gave it 5,000 square feet of tall ceilings, hardwood floors and brick walls. The layout includes several live rooms.

Today three producers own the studio: Geoff Ott, Jonathan Plum and Eric Lilavois. That last name matters here, because Eric Lilavois produced and engineered Louder. In other words, the man behind the desk knows the building from the inside. That helps when the plan is to capture a performance, not build a track one part at a time.

That was the plan. Pete Keating’s acoustic guitar and lead vocal went down live, together, so the phrasing stays the way he wrote it. He describes his writing as a return to the roots of mid-century Americana, blues, folk and jazz. The band’s stated aim is simpler still: get feet tapping and folks dancing. A live take suits that aim, because the song keeps the shape of a performance.

What Each Player Brought to Pete Keating’s Louder

The credits read like a cast list, and each name has a clear job. Pete Keating sings the lead and backing vocals and plays the acoustic guitar. So the song starts with the person who wrote it. Harrison Keating holds down the low end on upright bass. Meanwhile, Jacob Brown plays both piano and organ, and Trevor Olohan plays the drums.

The credits name three more singers too. Baylor Burbidge, Debbie Cantwell and Marita Schott all sing backing vocals. That turns a singer-songwriter’s song into something closer to a group statement. For a song about refusing to give up, that extra weight of voices fits the subject.

Louder Turns an Older Musician’s Fight With Multiple Sclerosis Into a Song About Pushing On

Louder is a self-empowering song by design. Pete Keating presents Louder as a reminder to push through the heaviest limits life sets. That is the lesson he took from that older musician. The size of the line-up backs up the message, since nobody on this record pushes alone.

On Spotify, Pete Keating is the main artist, and The Renslow Trestle appears alongside him. The composer and lyricist credits are listed under Peter Keating. The song also opens Stray Curls, the band’s five-track EP from the same London Bridge sessions. Tenderly, Perfect, 240 Girl and Don’t Listen follow it. On Spotify, it returns on the Tenderly single from 7 August. So Louder belongs to a larger set rather than standing alone.

The live work continues as well. Pete Keating’s own show list runs into 2027, with dates in Clinton, Chimacum, Tacoma and Seattle. Among them, Bailey’s Corner Store in Clinton on 7 November takes him back to a familiar room. The band filmed a live set there in March 2025.

The Band and The Avett Brothers Show the Same Kind of Teamwork

The Band made one of the clearest cases for recording a group in a room that feels like home. Sessions in a New York studio did not work out. So they set up in the pool house of a rented home in the Hollywood Hills. Sammy Davis Jr. owned the property at the time. Robbie Robertson wanted a clubhouse feel for the songs. The album that came out of it, The Band, arrived in September 1969. On that record, Garth Hudson played organ and Richard Manuel played piano. Jacob Brown covers the same pair on Louder.

The Avett Brothers show how much an upright bass can anchor a roots band. Bob Crawford plays double bass alongside Scott and Seth Avett. That acoustic low end is part of the band’s identity. Likewise, Harrison Keating plays the same instrument on Louder. As a result, the band keeps an acoustic bottom end under the organ and drums.

Who Should Hear Pete Keating’s Louder

This single suits listeners who like alt-country with a full band in the room. It also fits anyone who needs a song for a hard stretch. Louder sounds like company rather than a lecture. Start with Louder, then go to Stray Curls to hear the rest of the set.

From the NewMusic.News curator team: “Look at who produced this record and where: Eric Lilavois engineered Louder in a studio he co-owns. When the producer knows every corner of the room, a band can spend its energy on the performance. You can hear that on this single.”

Follow Pete Keating and The Renslow Trestle

Stream Louder on Spotify and Apple Music, and hear the whole Stray Curls EP on Bandcamp. The Tenderly single is on Spotify too. Follow Pete Keating on his Spotify artist page, Apple Music, SoundCloud, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Show dates are on the official website.

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