Raitt, Crow Ante Up
from: http://www.icemagazine.com
我一直都比較喜歡看一些幕後的故事，尤其是比較跟寫歌或製作相關的，
這一篇訪談訪問到了 Bonnie Raitt 跟 Sheryl Crow 的錄音師
Trina Shoemaker，她們從同名專輯開始就合作到現在
Bonnie Raitt 一首歌只作一兩個版本，而且只有成竹在胸時才會進錄音室，
Sheryl Crow 則會耗在錄音室裡面把一首歌一改再改，
Trina Shoemaker 舉了 Safe And Sound 作例子，
(這一首歌本來只是鋼琴版，911 晚會上有發表過)
這兩個人的方式還真是截然不同。
Raitt, Crow Ante Up
Two of rock's most popular guitar-slinging female artists return this April
with fresh discs: Bonnie Raitt (Silver Lining) and Sheryl Crow (C'mon C'mon).
Raitt teams for the second time in a row with producers Mitchell Froom and
Tchad Blake, also integrating African sounds into her otherwise blues-based
set. Crow, in the meantime, lures in a host of guests for her self-produced
effort, ranging from Don Henley and Emmylou Harris to Lenny Kravitz and Liz
Phair.
"Silver Lining" (Capitol, April 9) is inspired by the David Gray song of the
same name, which Raitt covers on the disc. Eleven more cuts fill out the
lineup: "Fool's Game," "I Can't Help You Now" (first single), "Time of Our
Lives," "Gnawin' On It," "Monkey Business," "Wherever You May Be," "Valley of
Pain," "Hear Me Lord," "No Gettin' Over You," "Back Around," and "Wounded
Heart."The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and nine-time Grammy clincher
spent two months in Hollywood's Sound Factory late last year recording the
new album.
"I don't go in with anything other than the best songs I can find at home,"
Raitt tells ICE. "I didn't have a concept in mind. But I did know that I
wanted to use my tour band and do it with Mitchell and Tchad again. This is a
really experienced and adventurous team; the difficult and daunting part is
the two or three years it takes to find the songs. "Though Gray drew in a
substantial amount of retroactive success with his 1999 breakthrough "White
Ladder," Raitt maintains that she had wanted to use the album's "Silver
Lining" as her own title track since "White Ladder"'s initial release.
Speaking about her version, Raitt says, "'Silver Lining' as a production is
th emost experimental work that I've done, using loops made by our drummer as
well as some created by a friend of ours. Mitchell has a whole arsenal of
great keyboard sounds and parts in his head - it's very inventive. "She
continues, referencing "Gnawin' on It," a duet between her and slide
guitarist Roy Rogers recorded in the latter musician's house: "I love the way
he plays slide. Having done that kind of groove on many records in the past,
I wanted to reinvent it by playing to his guitar-playing style. I've got to
say that's my favorite track I've ever cut."
Another adventurous song, according to Raitt, is a cover of Zimbabwe musician
Oliver Mtukudzi's "Hear Me God." (a sidenote from me - WindingRoad - the song
is actually called "Hear Me Lord" on Bonnie's record) "We recreated [his]
track pretty religiously, pardon the pun," she says. The song is one of a few
dips that album takes into African music, a genre that has long since
fascinated Raitt. Another tune, "Back Around," is a duet with West African
musician Habib Koite. Raitt calls the track "Silver Lining"'s most innovative
offering: "It's a mixture of me playiing a Delta blues/John Lee Hooker groove
and him adding this beautiful acoustic gut-string guitar part that's not
really like anything you would've heard played over a blues song."Other album
notables include "I Can't Help You Now" and "Time of Our Lives," co-written
by Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy and Wayne Kirkpatrick, who authored Eric
Clapton's chart-topping "Change the World"; and "Wounded Heart," which Raitt
calls the saddest song I've ever sung." All in all Raitt sums up "Silver
Lining" with, "There's a point when you stop looking back. You've already
proved yourself and you're just sittin' in it. You can throw caution to the
wind and get a lot more greasy and sexual. And that's how I feel about this
one."
Though her music career has spanned only a fraction of Raitt's, Sheryl Crow's
numbers measure up considerably. The '90s bloomer has scored 12 million
albums and seven Grammys, and now reappears with "C'mon C'mon" released April
16 via A&M/Interscope. The tune stack, with guest stars in parentheses:
"Steve McQueen" (bluesman Doyle Bramhall II), "Soak Up The Sun" (first
single, with Liz Phair), "You're An Original" (Lenny Kravitz) "Diamond Road,"
"It's So Easy" (Don Henley), "C'mon C'mon," "Abilene" (Dixie Chicks' Natalie
Maines), "Safe and Sound," "Over You" (Bramhall), "Hole In My Pocket" and
"Weather Channel" (Emmylou Harris). Pending inclusion at press time was
"You're Not the One" featuring Stevie Nicks.
Unlike Raitt, who only devoted one or two takes to each "Silver Lining"
track, engineer Trina Shoemaker tells ICE that Crow reworked songs a number of
times in the studio. "She'll do different versions, but not an enormous
amount of takes on a certain vibe," explains Shoemaker. "If it's not
happening, she'll stop doing it a certain way, recut it in a completely
different way, revise [how] it was cut or start from scratch again."
Specifically, Shoemaker points out "Safe and Sound," which also appeared on
last year's "America: A Tribute To Heroes" disc. "[That] was a piece of work
that started as a completely different version and morphed into what it is
now," she reveals.
Additionally, the crew - which also includes her ubiquitous guitar companion
Jeff Trott - revamped an older Crow track "Abilene," intended for 1998's
"Globe Sessions" CD. "It's just a good-feeling love song with a little
country vibe to it," Shoemaker elucidates. Shoemaker depicts the Crow
recording process as elaborate. Work on "C'mon C'mon," she says, "has been
going on for over a year. The songs are in different stages. We would cut a
song and move into a lot of shooting going on at the same time: editing,
reshooting, while editors are cutting away." She also adds, "It's not like
your average recording session. She's also willing to spend an enormous
amount of money to make her records, and it's not going to waste."
In addition to their proper studio efforts, Raitt and Crow have made a number
of recent appearances on other discs. They both cropped up on Tony Bennett's
"Playin' With My Friends" and Willie Nelson's "The Great Divide"; Crow also
surfaced on V2's "I Am Sam" soundtrack. Raitt participated on Cesaria Evora's
"Sao Vicente," Ivan Neville's "Saturday Morning Music" and sings with Don
Henley on this summer's soundtrack to the Disney film "Country Bears."
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