It’s funny how you can come across things by happenstance sometimes. After having some pies and pints with a couple of my bosses and some coworkers in London, I went back to my hotel room to turn in for the night. While I was flicking through the TV channels, I came across a show called …
The first Wilson Pickett album I ever worked on was one called The Midnight Mover. It definitely caught my attention and I really hoped at the time that I would get a chance to work on more. I never would have expected, however, that I’d be fortunate enough to work on most of Wilson Pickett’s …
One thing I enjoy doing when I work on an album is to learn a little bit of background information on the album itself. While some people really get into the gear and technological side of it, that’s really never been my thing (I’ve never heard of an artist worth their weight saying they couldn’t …
The guy that introduced me to Lee Hazlewood is the same guy that introduced me to Steven Wilson. I believe the first record he gave me was one called Insurgents. Once I was done with that, he gave an album called Welcome To My DNA by a band Steven Wilson was in called Blackfield. Blackfield …
This Lee Hazlewood record just came to my attention at the beginning of this year. I was talking with a buddy of mine about Lee and he asked me if I had ever heard this album, Friday’s Child, which I had not. I only knew some of his later songs because a guy I used …
My uncle has an old friend from high school that lives in the Los Angeles area. When my uncle would come to visit me in California, he’d typically stay at his buddy’s house and I’d meet him over there. A couple of times, I remember them telling me stories about my uncle’s friend running for …
We had a Ticketmaster in the basement of one of the college campus buildings, and one of the purchases I remember vividly was buying tickets to see Tool. We got there early, around 6:00 a.m., and there were already five or six people in line. Long story short, we ended up getting main floor general …
Jimmy Castor was another one of those artists that I was not aware of prior to working my current job. The album Supersound, credited to The Jimmy Castor Bunch Featuring The Everything Man, came across my desk within the first year or two of my career. While working a second job a few years later, …
During my senior year of high school, some friends and I would hang out at one of the three pool halls around town at least a couple of nights a week, usually more. The one that we frequented the most was a place called Miss Q Billiards. Part of the appeal was that, despite being …
A couple of Canadian artists have already been highlighted on this site, with probably one of the biggest being featured just yesterday. Though I did not intentionally focus on selecting more Canadian artists after yesterday’s pick, another one happens to be featured today. In another coincidence, both of the songs I picked today were initially …