Pop Chronicles Interviews #117 - Jerry Wexler
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- On Ray Charles (reading) 0:01:01
- Ray Charles continued - Genius sessions; Aretha Franklin 0:02:45
- Aretha Franklin recording sessions; studio musicians (Joe South, guitar; Roger Hawkins, drums; Jimmy Johnson, rhythm guitar; Spooner Oldham, electric piano; Tommy Cogbill, bass) 0:02:27
- Recording process continued; Arif Mardin and Tommy Dowd; Wayne Jackson (trumpet), Andrew Love (tenor saxophone); Bowlegs Miller (trumpet); aiming for hits; time taken in studio 0:02:24
- Cost per album; question about evolution of the sound of soul 0:00:44
- Wexler responds; genre distinctions; earlier soul / rhythm and blues artists (Joe and Jimmy Liggins, Charles Brown, Amos MIlburn); gospel influence; blues revival; bass line styles from Motown, Stax, and Atlantic 0:02:55
- Chord progressions and complexity; drumming patterns; James Brown; boogaloo beat 0:01:46
- Boogaloo beat continued; baion beat; The Drifters; Lieber and Stoller 0:01:47
- Blues revival and Cream, Led Zeppelin as opposed to Howlin' Wolf and contemporaries; The Rascals; racial demographics and reception of white blues groups 0:03:58
- British Invasion and blues revival; Rolling Stones; favorite recording projects 0:02:50
- Detailed discussion of the Stax/Volt and Memphis sound 0:05:01
- Stax sound continued; Otis Redding 0:02:19
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Pop Chronicles Interviews #117 - Jerry Wexler, audio recording, March 7, 1969; Pasadena, CA. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1692033/: accessed May 31, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.