Meet Scott Billington, Curator of Craft's New All Analog Bluesville Series
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
- Every properly overseen vinyl record reissue series should have a gatekeeper/curator like Blue Note's Tone Poet series Joe Harley. Craft Recordings has brought on board for its new Bluesville series, Scott Billington, clearly the best possible individual for the job.
Scott is a Grammy winning producer, musician, writer and record executive who's produced more than 150 records, even playing on a few. He's produced records by, among others, Charlie Rich, Solomon Burke, Johnny Adams, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Soul Rebels Brass Band, Irma Thomas and James Booker. Check out his Wiki page.
I've known Scott since around 1969 first as a customer of New England Music City the Kenmore Square record store he managed back then and later as the producer/voice over artist and writer of the (some say) "legendary" New England Music City/Cheap Thrills record store radio commercials.
Scott and I haven't spoken in decades, though we've occasionally traded emails. We catch up in this Zoom call video. At the end there's an "easter egg" where you can listen to a few of the highly offensive (in today's world) radio commercials I wrote and produced for the chain. Back then listeners would call the stations ( among them progressive rock pioneer WBCN-FM, and Top 40 AM station WRKO) and request the commercials (well some of them).
In this video Scott and I talk about his incredible career and his work curating this Bluesville series, all of which are mastered using the original tapes (AAA) cut my Matthew Lutthans at Blue Heaven Studios on Doug Sax's legendary The Mastering Labs cutting system.
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A very enjoyable watch & thanks for bringing it to us.
the concord / craft catalog is packed full of so many treasures and great recordings. Simply amazing at the shear amount of recording work Rudy did back then.
Great interview! Geez , 1970 was the year I was born in! Thanks for making me feel not so old, NOT that you're old! You got a lot of life left as good as you look!
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Great video, the craic was fun. Thank you for taking the time to make it.
That was an excellent interview and guest!! I bought so many great Rounder CD’s in the ‘90’s that Scott produced, especially zydeco. Looking forward to the Bluesville series.
Excellent interview so good to here the discussion.
Many thanks Scott, Mike✌️
Fantastic NE City ads! Still laffworthy!! Sounds like early '72 based on what's on sale.
Co e for the interview but the commercials from the time are pure gold! I love that stuff and would love to hear more of them! Making is wish we still had record (or even cassette or cd) stores around and walking in to someone spiking up the lateat or whatever they were in the mood for ! Thanks Michael!
I have 100 more! At least
@@trackingangle929wow! You have lots of potential content right here by itself ! It must be me as I'm getting older but I have been enjoying more stuff like this. I'm guessing lots of this independent homemade commercials are non existent today sadly. Now we have all these big networks running the same stuff and agenda over and over. This is refreshing !
Does Craft have access to A.F.O. ? THE new Orleans label circa 1958-63.
Wasn't Bluesville a subsidiary of ABC/Dunhill at some point?
1970, I was 10--11, and it was the first year I went to record stores (and department stores, which all had record depts) regularly, and went to my first concert (Creedence).
Ric and Ron rule!
The BluesWay label was a subsidiary of ABC/Dunhill.
Vinyl collectors.....a sad addiction 😢
It’s actually a great addiction.
@trackingangle929 what buying reissue after reissue after reissue of the same bloody record ...almost insane.
At 13.20 they explain why stuff gets reissued. Personally, I have very few reissues, but the ones I do, are generally for those very high ticket price price originals that I can't afford, or were never released in the UK at the time, so now is a chance for more people to enjoy.
Who owns the rights to Chess Records?
Universal. Unfortunately much was lost in the Universal fire…