Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
|
Buy Now
Making Tracks - A Record Producer’s Southern Roots Music Journey (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R777
Discovery Miles 7 770
|
|
Making Tracks - A Record Producer’s Southern Roots Music Journey (Hardcover)
Series: American Made Music Series
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern
roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington
recorded many of the period’s most iconic artists. Working
primarily in Louisiana for Boston-based Rounder Records, Billington
produced such giants as Irma Thomas, Charlie Rich, Buckwheat
Zydeco, Johnny Adams, Bobby Rush, Ruth Brown, Beau Jocque, and
Solomon Burke. The loving and sometimes irreverent profiles in
Making Tracks reveal the triumphs and frustrations of the recording
process, and that obsessive quest to capture a transcendent
performance. Billington's long working relationships with the
artists give him perspective to present them in their
complexity—foibles, failures, and fabled feats—while providing
a vivid look at the environs in which their music thrived. He tells
about Boozoo Chavis’s early days as a musician, jockey, and
bartender at his mother’s quarter horse track, and Ruth Brown’s
reign as the most popular star in rhythm and blues, when the
challenge of traveling on the "chitlin’ circuit" proved the
antithesis of the glamour she exuded on stage. In addition, Making
Tracks provides a widely accessible study in the craft of
recording. Details about the technology and psychology behind the
sessions abound. Billington demonstrates varying ways of achieving
the mutual goal of a great record. He also introduces the
supporting cast of songwriters, musicians, and engineers crucial to
the magic in each recording session. Making Tracks sings
unforgettably like a "from the vault" discovery.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.