March 2000
Shawn Mullins - Anthony J Resta reports that the new Shawn Mullins/Columbia record "Beneath the velvet sun" is nearing completion.
Anthony, who is producing the record with Shawn brought in Steve Sadler on lap steel, mandolin, and electric twelve string, Jay Joyce (Patty Griffin, The Wall Flowers) on guitars, Ricky Keller on bass and Mike Lawler (Stevie Winwood, James Brown etc.) on Hammond organ and clavinet. Henley Douglas Jr and Garret Savluk, played and arranged the horns on one track. The drums were played by AJR and the synth and mellotron etc. stuff was split up between Shawn and Anthony.
Shawn also brought in David Patterson on guitar and David LaBreyere on bass, who have played on several of his other c.d.'s. Elton John played and sang on a remake of "Bordersong" from his first record. This duet between he and Shawn features 18 string players from the Atlanta Symphony, (arranged and conducted by Rickey Keller) as well as a first call group of Atlanta gospel singers, (conducted by Oliver Wells). This will be a future single separate from the actual album.
The record recorded by Karyadi Sutedja and Glenn Mattulo has sounds and colours from a wide variety of styles and influences, including folk, soul, hip-hop, modern rock, and bluegrass.
It should be released sometime this summer or fall of 2000....
Collective Soul - In March Anthony and Karyadi head to Atlanta to begin work on the next Collective Soul record. Ed Roland and AJR are producing, and hope to make it a logical progression from last years "Dosage".
"Dosage" and Collective Soul won in the Best Rock album and Rock Band categories for the 1999 album network awards. The song "Heavy "was #1 on the Billboard rock charts for 27 weeks of 1999.
new gear list:
- rhodes 88 suitcase piano,
- cr 78 beatbox
- federation bpm fx box
- ddrum kit
Bimonthly thank yous: (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)
- Billy, Tony, Bobby, Jarrad, and everyone at Crossover studios in Atlanta.
- Lee Donnay at Columbia,
- everyone at stankonia on the string date.
Kathy, Brian, and Russel at Russel Carter Management for helping us keep things - moving smoothly.
- Kathy and Cheryl and Barbara at Lippman, for putting up with AJR's constant harrassment.
- Karyadi for putting up with the same.... and the great sounds...
- Elton for the amazing piano and vocal stuff on "Bordersong", and for being so down to earth, and cool.
- Shawn and Kelly for presenting us with the platinum album for our work on "Shimmer" (single version) and letting us be a part of the new record.
- Roadie for his fantastic impersonations of a cat, Mr. Ed, charging elephant etc...
- Ed for letting us use his gear and being so cool and supportive.
- Steve, Jay, Mike, David, David, Ricky, Oliver for the music.
- Mickey Wade, Alan Yates, Farshid, for all their help.
- April , Angie, Jamie,and the whole fleetwood taco mac crew....
- Jac Cain for the intentional one dimensional human beatbox part.
- TJ at ddrum, John D. at Zildjian, Jim Walsh at Noble and Cooley...
and everyone and anyone else we're forgetting....like the Boston Music
Awards.
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