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by Don Chapman
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When I was in Nashville visiting Chris Sligh
I got this random email from mega producer
Brown Bannister - "Do you have time
to do some strings of a track?" I figured
it was for a demo, but Chris said "Brown
doesn't do demos!" We drove over to
Brown's studio.
In the studio, Brown showed us his copy of
the 20th anniversary edition of Amy Grant's
Lead Me On. I can't believe it's been 20 years!! I
remember reading back then
in the liner notes
that one of the tracks
had a Synclavier piano
and I was amazed. |
After some chit chat, Brown says, "so,
I have this Jeremy Camp track I need strings
for..." and I, of course, nearly wet
my pants! He told me a little bit of what
he wanted, burned me the track and I got
in my car and raced back home to Greenville.
Importing the track into Sonar, I started
playing around with some strings and we emailed
back and forth until Brown was happy with
the arrangement. Four days later I went back
to Nashville for the most exciting session
of my life - 5 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos
- a 9 piece studio strings section stacked
two times for a rich, full sound.
Brown said "can you conduct?" I
said "sure" and mentally retrieved
my conducting class from college LOL! Arranger
Philip Keveren, who had arranged strings
for two songs at the same session, was kind
enough to let me use his baton.
Since I had previously done a syth mockup
of the strings, I knew how everything would
sound and the session, thankfully, went off
without a hitch. You don't want to be sitting
there with 9 highly-hourly-paid session players
in a high-dollar studio (1st Avenue in Franklin)
trying to figure out what's wrong with your
charts!
I worked on Jeremy's new song I Know Who I Am which is on his CD Speaking Louder Than Before. The last I heard it's coming out this November
2008. One of the songs Philip arranged is
called You Will Be There and it has a very cool vibe to it.
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