Sam Myers in Chicago - between mid 20th Century and early 21st Century
from Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story, page 113:
Making a record back in the old days was a lot different than it is now. I liked recording in Chicago or New York better than I did anywhere in the South. For one reason, I never did like it if I had written a song and somebody were to tell me how to sing it, and they can't carry a tune in a bucket. The next thing is, if you got your music set to a song the way you want it to go, you're not supposed to let nobody in the studio change your format around. If you want to add instruments and they're playing the right thing, that's fine. But, man, don't take away anything. I don't like that.
… more >>Jeff Horton and Sam Myers, Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story (City of Jackson, 2006), p. 113. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1432898587355 accessed: 3 December, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersBlues | performed by Elmore James, Sam Myers |
Experience Information
Date/Time | between mid 20th Century and early 21st Century |
Medium | live, playback |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Sam Myers is mulling over his experience of the record industry over almost fifty years