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"Even though half the tracks are instrumentals, I feel like I'm writing pop songs," she says.
Red found King branching out with songs that featured electric and pedal-steel guitar, horns, and, for the first time, vocals. Dreaming Of Revenge, her producer, Malcolm Burn (Dylan, Chris Whitley, Emmylou Harris), had one condition: "He said, `If someone can't be sawing a log in half and whistling along to the song, I don't want it on the melodies.
I really wanted them to be dense and chordal, but this time the idea was to layer the challenging guitar work under very simple, beautiful melodies. Red found King branching out with songs that featured electric and pedal-steel guitar, horns, and, for the first time, vocals. Dreaming Of Revenge, her producer, Malcolm Burn (Dylan, Chris Whitley, Emmylou Harris), had one condition: "He said, `If someone can't be sawing a log in half and whistling along to the song, I don't want it on the melodies. I really wanted them to be dense and chordal, but this time the idea was to layer the challenging guitar work under very simple, beautiful melodies. Red found King branching out with songs that featured electric and pedal-steel guitar, horns, and, for the first time, vocals.
"We really concentrated on the record,'" King recalls with a laugh. I Everything I write tends to be dense and chordal, but this time the idea was to layer the challenging guitar work under very simple, beautiful melodies.
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