Youngstown always has been a part of Red Wanting Blue’s touring history, from small bar gigs at long-closed clubs to headlining the first Federal Frenzy and a playing a sold-out New Year’s Eve show at B&O Station.

Now the city also is a part of its recording history.

Later this month, the band will release “The Peppermint Sessions,” half of which was recorded analog at Youngstown’s Peppermint Recording Studio. The first voice heard on the album isn’t lead singer Scott Terry; it’s Peppermint owner Gary Rhamy saying, “Here we go, this is take number 4 — ‘Glass House.'”

The band — Terry, lead vocals and baritone ukulele; Mark McCullough, bass, keyboards and backing vocals; Greg Rahm, keyboards, guitar and backing vocals; Eric Hall, guitar and backing vocals; and Dean Anshutz, drums and percussion — re-recorded five of the tracks from its 2018 release “The Wanting” accompanied by a quartet — Jenna Barvitski, violin; Megan LaMarca, cello; Fred Burazer, saxophone; and Kyle O’Donnell, trumpet — that had joined the band for a couple of live shows.

“It was all live, no overdubbing at all on the thing, which presented an interesting challenge,” Rhamy said. “Not only did the performance have to be good, but what we did in the studio to capture it had to be good. We used about 32 tracks to record everything.”

Friends from Historian Recording Co. (Sam A. Buonavolonta, Melanie Rae and David J. Pokrivnak) shot video of the daylong session in February 2019, and several videos from the session have been released in the last year on the band’s social media accounts.

Creating social media content was the initial inspiration for the session, but the idea to release the recordings came soon after.

“The label (Blue Elan Records) is constantly surprised by us,” Anshutz said. “They thought we were going to make a little video. That’s not in our nature. As Red Wanting Blue, we don’t put anything out we don’t 100 percent believe in. They couldn’t believe how professional it was, how great it looks. It was a testament to working at Peppermint and how great things sound there. It made complete sense to release it.”

Anshutz, who grew up in Creston but has lived in Youngstown for the last five years, was the driving force behind recording at Peppermint. He collects vintage 45s and LPs recorded in Youngstown, and Anshutz, Anthony LaMarca (who records music as The Building and is a member of the Grammy-winning band The War on Drugs) and Pokrivnak do DJ gigs where they spin those local grooves using the name Peppermint Pals.

“I’m into vintage stuff and seeing a place like Peppermint; Gary built that place,” Anshutz said. “Everything inside has been under the control of Gary since 1971. It’s amazing to be in that studio, to see these mics that were used on all of these great records I’ve been collecting and get a change to use them again.”

“The Wanting,” produced by Will Hoge, was released in April 2018, and the songs were recorded in 2017. By the time the band filmed and recorded “The Peppermint Sessions,” it had been playing those songs at nearly every gig for the last year. Anshutz said he believes the band’s familiarity and comfort with the material can be heard in the recordings. And he believes the experience of the Historian Recording Co. crew as musicians themselves (Buonavolanta fronts the Youngstown band Sam Goodwill) is one of the reasons the videos turned out so well.

“They would really key in on what they were hearing as musicians,” Anshutz said.

Rhamy had his own explanation for the quality of recording session — “The band is terrific. They know what they’re doing.”

In addition to the five songs recorded at Peppermint, the album includes live performances of songs from “The Wanting” recorded during promotional appearances, as well as “My Name Is Death,” a popular live song that is a hidden track on the 2012 release “From the Vanishing Point.”

The music will be available on streaming services starting Aug. 21. CD versions are available for pre-order on the label’s website (www.blueelan.com) along with “Peppermint” inspired gear like a red-and-white RWB football jersey-style T-shirt, and RWB branded tin of peppermints and a squeezable stress toy that looks like the gnome that always can be found on stage with the band.

“Have you been to our show? Have you seen our stage? We love trinkets. We love tchotchkes,” Anshutz said.

That gnome — and the rest of RWB — hasn’t been on stage for a while due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And Anshutz said the band doesn’t want to rush back.

“We want to make sure everybody’s safe. We’ve talked, and we could go out and do this show or that show, but we don’t trust that it’s going to be a safe experience yet.

“I’m excited by the time off, taking a break. Let the ears relax. If we can’t go to a show until 2021, everyone’s going to appreciate it that much more. The performers and the audience, everybody, can just realize how great it is to see live music and, as performers, realize it’s not a job, it’s something we’re lucky to be able to do. I don’t want the industry to shut down and I don’t want people to not make money, but sometimes I think a reset button is a great thing for musicians and the audience, too.”