A familiar name appears on the new release from country/pop sensation Taylor Swift, Bowling Green’s own Chris Carmichael.  Carmichael is listed in the credits as a player as well as for composer and string arrangements. His home studio, Stonehurst, is also listed among the recording studios used for the album.

Though some of Carmichael’s work did not make the final cut, the track Enchanted, originally slated as the title cut, features Carmichael’s arrangment as well as his performance on violins, violas and cellos.   In fact, twenty individual instrument tracks he created are featured in the song.  Each track was recorded in his Bowling Green studio.

Swift has described the fourteen tracks penned by her as being inspired by real life situations in which she wished she had said more before the moment passed.  The album is thusly named for the common inclusion of the directive “Speak now or forever hold your peace” during wedding ceremonies.

Speak now is one of twenty albums on which Chris Carmichael received credits in 2010.  The credit vary from perform to string arrangements and engineer.  Other recent releases include Amy Grant’s Somewhere Down the Road and The Museum’s Let Love Win.  For a semi-complete list of Carmichael’s recording credits visit his Amplifier Artist Directory listing.