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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: MC/SL |
| Date | Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:16:27 -0500 |
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Amen to that. Yeah, that was around the time that every album I bought and
loved, T-Bone had produced it. Downtown was certainly the first record of
the rest of MC's career. I've got a nice bootleg of the MJ&9Os tour.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Alter" <shteevea@yahoo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: MC/SL
> Actually, T Bone Burnett produced DOWNTOWN, with Mitch Easter pitching in
> on the great "Blues Is King." It was his first album out of the original
> "power trio" so not quite as sure-footed as the first two records, IMHO,
> but still great. MJ was produced by Dixon, and yeah, it does sound
> recorded through saran wrap, which I also attributed to the "CDs sound
> worse than vinyl" chatter at the time. Swell tunes, though, and they
> sounded great live; Graham Maby and brother Robert toured with him.
>
> Josh Chasin <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stewart Mason"
>> Ironically, I thought every Crenshaw album after DOWNTOWN had absolutely
>> wretched '80s production, but I don't remember anyone complaining about
>> them at the time.
>
> Cuz it was the 80s...
>
> If memory serves, Don Dixon produced Downtown. Did a real nice job I
> thought. Mary Jean and Nine Others sounded-- and sounds-- all mushed
> together and cheap and plastic to me. I didn't chalk it up to 80s
> production at the time; I actually thought it was because it was the first
> MC record I bought on CD and that it was a shortcoming of CD technology.
>
> I still love it though.
>
>
>
>
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