Meet Scott Billington, Curator of Craft's New All Analog Bluesville Series
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 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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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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Excellent interview so good to here the discussion.
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.
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Many thanks Scott, Mike✌️
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 !
MF, part of value I've always felt for decades was/is your efforts with bringing to my attention, artists, MFGs, and industry folk I'm not intimately aware of like in this case, Mr. Scott Billington. I'm a huge fan of Craft's AAA titles of course. Even own a few copies of this release from others.
But I went to Wikipedia while listening to your interview and was frankly surprised I wasn't familiar with Scott & certainly unaware of his accolades & awards. Impressive for sure. Look forward to his furure supervision & LPs. Kudos.
Fantastic NE City ads! Still laffworthy!! Sounds like early '72 based on what's on sale.
A very enjoyable watch & thanks for bringing it to us.
The old saying of, you are what you do, is true.
So Michael is spending all his time not listening to records.
He is seeking gossip.
He IS from the WW2 victory ✌️ generation and they're mostly seeking to gossip socially.
Most of Michael's content is his attempts to be social.
But the audience is 90% antisocial.
The public has fallen into decline.
These TV from the 1980's style of shows just fail.
It stops ✋️ being great information and just ends up being robot blah blah language 😑 😐 😒
For example; blah blah blah did blah blah blah and they handed blah over to blah blah blah and they did blah and it impressed blah blah who sold blah to blah blah and they distributed blah to blah blah...etc... and it's a bigger world 🌎 (which is not actually true etc... etc...)
@@Gma7788 That old saying of, If You Can't Say Something Nice, Don't Say Anything at All, still holds true boy. I'm not sure which part of the audience you fall into, the 90% or 10%.
Great video, the craic was fun. Thank you for taking the time to make it.
Yeah, so you've admitted you're NOT HERE FOR THE RECORD INFORMATION, you're here for any kind of FAKE SOCIAL GOSSIP.
If Michael is doing A, then he's not doing B.
Michael is just going to ignore all this records and go after social gossip.
All his friends have died off and you're now his imaginary friends.
But Michael doesn't realise the audience has MULTIPLE FAKE GIRLFRIENDS and they demand time and money from the audience 🙄 😒
Michael the audience has to get back to their high demanding imaginary porn GIRLFRIENDS.
They ain't got any free time left.
Now, they've got multiple perfect AI girlfriends.
Each 1 demands all their record revenues.
Does Craft have access to A.F.O. ? THE new Orleans label circa 1958-63.
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.
No it wasn't.
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…