Famous albums that were home recorded.

I’m not sure how famous their albums are, but the Squirrel Nut Zippers did most of their recording in an old house. I think they used a different old house for Hot than they did for Perennial Favorites.

I think it really added to their sound and set them apart from the polished, studio swing bands of the era.

Rudy Van Gelder engineered hundreds of jazz albums from home studios in New Jersey. Would he count?

I believe that everything by Nick Drake was. I could be wrong, but that’s how I remember it.

Smithsonian magazine c. 1996 said The Harmonicats recorded in a bathroom (!) because the wall tiles made the right acoustics.

That’s all I know, not a fan or anything.

Apple Studios was pretty rudimentary, but it was located in the basement of the Beatles’ business office, not in any of their homes.

And Dave Gilmour doesn’t live on Astoria; it’s been fitted out exclusively as a recording studio. (Albeit a rather small one.)

Bob Dylan recorded Oh Mercy in a house in New Orleans, although with Daniel Lanois at the desk, it kinda stretches the definition of “home recording.” His two traditional cover albums, Good As I Been to You and World Gone Wrong were, I believe, recorded at home with a simple bare-bones recording setup.