Post by tal on Aug 20, 2008 13:44:07 GMT -5
Fun anecdote from the CMT board...
How Jerry Douglas Met Alison Krauss
Posted: August 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pm | By: Craig Shelburne
Jerry Douglas & Alison Krauss Jerry Douglas has a new album out, Glide, and there’s a longer story coming up on that in the next few weeks. But in the meantime, I thought this anecdote was pretty interesting, as he talks about the first time he met his future boss, Alison Krauss:
“I met Alison when she was 14, right after Ken Irwin from Rounder Records had signed her to the record label. He came down to Nashville with her and her parents, Fred and Louise, and was looking for somebody to produce the first record. He brought her over to Bela Fleck’s house over in Sylvan Park (a Nashville neighborhood). I was just moving into Sylvan Park that day so I stopped by between loads and met Alison, and she sang for me and Bela and Sam Bush.
“I ended up not producing the first record, but playing on it, and being kind of the floor director in the band, trying to direct, produce, whatever it was. I just loved her voice and saw that she was so effervescent. It wasn’t a feeling like, ‘Oh, I want to be a star.’ She was just so starry-eyed about being with cool musicians and learning. She was a sponge and she had this huge talent that we all saw, and just thought, ‘We need to help her.’
“Then I produced a couple of records for her, and she learned so fast, so much, and refined her art of what she thought her voice could do, how she should treat her voice and the material she should sing. There was one song on the first record that we always gave her the business about — something about whiskey on ice. We’re like, ‘You’re 15 years old. You don’t know what you’re talking about.’ I think that got her thinking like, ‘Yeah I shouldn’t sing songs like that, I really don’t know what I’m talking about.’ So anything she sings, she can relate to.”
How Jerry Douglas Met Alison Krauss
Posted: August 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pm | By: Craig Shelburne
Jerry Douglas & Alison Krauss Jerry Douglas has a new album out, Glide, and there’s a longer story coming up on that in the next few weeks. But in the meantime, I thought this anecdote was pretty interesting, as he talks about the first time he met his future boss, Alison Krauss:
“I met Alison when she was 14, right after Ken Irwin from Rounder Records had signed her to the record label. He came down to Nashville with her and her parents, Fred and Louise, and was looking for somebody to produce the first record. He brought her over to Bela Fleck’s house over in Sylvan Park (a Nashville neighborhood). I was just moving into Sylvan Park that day so I stopped by between loads and met Alison, and she sang for me and Bela and Sam Bush.
“I ended up not producing the first record, but playing on it, and being kind of the floor director in the band, trying to direct, produce, whatever it was. I just loved her voice and saw that she was so effervescent. It wasn’t a feeling like, ‘Oh, I want to be a star.’ She was just so starry-eyed about being with cool musicians and learning. She was a sponge and she had this huge talent that we all saw, and just thought, ‘We need to help her.’
“Then I produced a couple of records for her, and she learned so fast, so much, and refined her art of what she thought her voice could do, how she should treat her voice and the material she should sing. There was one song on the first record that we always gave her the business about — something about whiskey on ice. We’re like, ‘You’re 15 years old. You don’t know what you’re talking about.’ I think that got her thinking like, ‘Yeah I shouldn’t sing songs like that, I really don’t know what I’m talking about.’ So anything she sings, she can relate to.”
