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Our Lady of Mysterious Sorrows

Posted by Lance Davis - August 23, 2018 - Aretha Franklin, Atlantic Records, Chips Moman, Dan Penn, Jerry Wexler, King Curtis, Ray Charles, Sweet Inspirations

Like Ray (Charles), Aretha was a hands-on performer, a two-fisted pianist plugged into the main circuit of Holy Ghost power. Even though we produced Aretha in a way that we never produced Ray, she remained the central orchestrator of her own sound, the essential contributor and final arbiter of what fit or did not fit […]

Before Badfinger: Listen To a Lonely Sound

Posted by Lance Davis - August 14, 2018 - Badfinger, Beatles, Iveys, Marmalade

I should be done with the sixth entry of my Nicky Hopkins series in the next week or so. That post will cover the events of 1968, the same year this syrupy pop gem came out. The Iveys were basically Badfinger before Badfinger and “Maybe Tomorrow” was their first release on Apple Records, the label’s […]