Fact #43129
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Short story:
Muddy Waters, plus an all-star band including guitarist Mike Bloomfield and harmonica player Paul Butterfield of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Donald "Duck" Dunn of Booker T And The MGs and Sam Lay, spend the first of three days with producer Norman Dayron recording tracks for the album Fathers And Sons at Ter-Mar Studio, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Norman Dayron (producer) : The idea behind Fathers And Sons was that the younger white musicians wanted to give something back to the men they had learned from. Mike, Paul and the others thought they could do something to elevate the quality of the music because, at that time, it was later in Muddy's career and sometimes the bands he would get together could be a bit sloppy. We wanted to do a really tight, musically-sound version of what they were doing, but still with musical integrity.
That's all I was thinking of, and I believe it's all the musicians were thinking.
Unfortunately, in later years the intention became just to put names together to sell records, with very little concern for the music. They would take names and pout them together and just let them jam with no planning or forethought.
[Source : Interview with Johnny Black for The Blues magazine, September 2013]
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That's all I was thinking of, and I believe it's all the musicians were thinking.
Unfortunately, in later years the intention became just to put names together to sell records, with very little concern for the music. They would take names and pout them together and just let them jam with no planning or forethought.
[Source : Interview with Johnny Black for The Blues magazine, September 2013]