I interviewed Ruthie after her set at an outdoor music festival in North
Idaho. It was midnight and we were skinny dipping in the river nearby.
Jaime de la Noche
JD: You do a lot of tunes about love. Where does that come from?
RR: It's where I [+]I interviewed Ruthie after her set at an outdoor music festival in North
Idaho. It was midnight and we were skinny dipping in the river nearby.
Jaime de la Noche
JD: You do a lot of tunes about love. Where does that come from?
RR: It's where I always go. I love love songs. I have a great family, full
of love and I'm passionate about people getting along, loving one another, living together. Couples, cities, countries, the world. Love songs are about the smallest thing and the biggest.
JD: Can you believe this water temperature?
RR: Mmmmm. And there's Orion, and the Pleides. Man, I'm tellin' you.
The stars in Idaho!
THANKS MERCI BEAUCOUP GRACIAS TOUSEN TAK DANKE GRAZIE
Special thanks to all the musician brother/friends who worked with me on this project. Please see the biographies at the bottom of this for more details.
bass: Ira Coleman, Ed Friedland, Peter Herbert, Mike Stanzilas
piano: Alain Mallet,Teese Gohl, Renato Chicco
drums and percussion: Ben Wittman (all tracks)
guitar: Bill Brinkley
I wanted to put together a project that represented songs I'd recorded that had never been released in a CD format along with several new arrangements. It was good to see that there were more songs than I could fit so I tried to pick a good sampling. There are still some classic arrangements of songs like Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind, Carol King's Giant Step, Van Morrison's Crazy Love, Bill Wither's Ain't No Sunshine, Jobim's Dindi, and Rodgers and Hart's My Romance that did not make it onto this CD. I look forward to re-working these arrangements for future recordings.
Several of the older recordings on this CD were stored on analog tape. Since this format is now archaic I had a difficult time even finding a studio with reel to reel decks for playback. Don Foote referred me to Alvan Long who referred me to another studio owner who was kind enough to lead me to mWorks (http://www.m-works.com), a mastering studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The engineers and studio managers were extremely knowledgeable, helpful and friendly. A few of my 7 1/2 ips and 15 ips master tapes had a high pitched squeal when played back. Engineer Matt Azevedo knew the sound was caused by the magnetic oxide layer and the backing acetate layer slipping away
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