Thursday, September 08, 2005

Jennifer Grassman/Jacque Jones



I'm doing preproduction with Jennifer Grassman at her home. We are embarking on a very cool project where Jennifer is reinterpreting 15th-19th century Christmas carols. The picture is of my assistant for the session (and moi)-- my daughter, Joe Ann. She was our protools operator, and she didn't miss a punch! We start recording piano and vocals in a couple of weeks and I am very pleased with Jennifer's work so far. This is going to be a very hip sounding project..... Jennifer and I are both passionate about the songs, and we want them to really speak to a modern audience. More will be revealed!

On another note, super sideman/producer Eric Jarvis joined Jacque Jones and I to help out with the song I have been writing with Jacque. His contribution was, immediate, solid, and opened a host of new possibilites. Now all I have to do is write two more verses and a bridge.

Work has begun on more Southern Backtones songs, and that is worthy of a whole 'nother post. Let's just say that the performances and sounds have been very, very high quality and that Hank Schyma, and John Griffin have been keeping Steve and I quite busy with all the new ideas. Todd's drums were VERY cool. We wanted a really huge sound, and Todd delivered by cutting the cymbals separately from the rest of the kit. This is a neat trick that I first heard about Sam Taylor using when cutting drums for King's X. Todd is one of the few drummers that could pull it off. Way to go TODD!

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Glad to see you're actually doing some work. PD looks SO focused on her work. Although headphones really do fuck up the hair, unless you have a stylish (nonexistent) 'do like yours. (ahem)

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