It does not seem nine years since I did my Detroit session at Studio A in Dearborn Heights which featured local notable session musicians and artists. SD member Dennis Coffey produced and played on the recordings, along with musicians Uriel Jones, Spider Webb, Robert Jones, Ray Monette, Gil Bridges, George Katsakis, Bob Babbitt to name a few. Spyder Turner, Cherokee Pree and Gayle Butts provided the fabulous vocals and harmony arrangements. David J. Van De Pitte arranged from my demos sent over in 2007/early 2008. And I beleive my releases are the only ones ever to spell his name correctly for the first time!
'Tell me [[crying over you)' was originally authored in London around 2004 and was written with Spyder Turner performing it in the back of my mind, simply because he was also a SD forum member. I figured that one day I would get to Detroit and do something musically and why not do it with SD members. At that time Dennis, Spyder, Bob, George were active on SD threads with invaluable knowledge so it all made sense especially after the 2003 visit to the Cass Cafe SD meet up. Once the session was organised Spyder chipped in with some great lyric enhancements, so now we are co writers of the song. Since then, 'Tell me' has had radio airplay, vinyl pressed up, and a live performance or two by Spyder in the UK and Europe, thanks to Hitsville Chalky over here who recognised the potential of the song. Today I have decided to re-cut the song and 'The Delgonives' cover features Detroit's Drew Schultz on drums for example. Indeed, the drums are doubled up a la Motown to get that Funk Brothers groove. There will be ten vocal and instrumental mixes as the technology allows it, plus I have the time to do them. It's a novel way to exploit the rhythm track and hopefully recoup the expenditure on live musicians on this recording. It's not cheap creating authentic sounding productions.
So this is the rhythm plus instrumental version:
https://soundcloud.com/bandtraxs/tel...strumental-ver
And this is the last vocal version prior to tweaking and mastering:
https://soundcloud.com/bandtraxs/tel...ives-version-7
And this is the 'sweet mix':
https://soundcloud.com/bandtraxs/tel...x-instrumental
And this is the tenor sax instrumental:
https://soundcloud.com/bandtraxs/tel...instrumental-1
Stay tuned for more info as I have just about finished the mastering process and hope to release by first weak in July or thereabouts.
My next move it so see whether any of the musicians on my Detroit session can record remotely today, guitars, bass, lead horns etc and use them on my productions. Little acorns......
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