Meeting Thebeatle!
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
News From… Davidson County Dickson County Cheatham County Williamson County July 23 - 29, 2010 www.westviewonline.com Vol. 34, No. 29 MEETING THEBEATLE! Nashville ‘Cat,’ engineer recall Fab summer of ’74 Williamson County Cheatham County Dickson County Davidson County News From… photo by Donn Jones Ernie Winfrey’s treasured photos from the 1974 ‘Nashville Sessions.’ On the left, Winfrey is surrounded by Paul McCart- ney, Buddy Killen, Tony Dorsey and Linda McCartney. The photo on the right shows Winfrey and McCartney. FLOUR POWER NATCHEZ TRACE ART OPENING LOVELESS CAFE DESPITE APPEARANCES, SEUFERT, KAUFMAN creates fund to honor Parkway proves to be place works on display ‘The Biscuit Lady,’ Carol a commercial boon for at Gordon Jewish Fay Ellison. Middle Tennessee. Community Center. Page 4 Page 7 Page 17 INSIDE Editorial News From… Sections Vet’s View ....................................4 White Bluff ..................................8 Health and Fitness ....................10 Dave Ramsey ..............................5 Fairview .......................................9 Public Notices ...........................11 Nashville Nostalgia ......................5 Business Services .....................18 Karlen Evins .................................5 Community Calendar ..................6 © 2010 Westview Newspaper, LLC • 8120 Sawyer Brown Rd. • Nashville, TN 37221 • 615.646.6131 • westviewonline.com Page 2 www.westviewonline.com July 23 - 29, 2010 McCartney’s return Paul just waved, and he and Linda just sat“ down and fulfi lls old promise waited until we finished up. By Tim Ghianni promise to “see ya later, mate” One day, while he was engi- When we were done, Buddy all those years ago. neering an R&B session at the The Steel Guitar Hall of Fame Sound Shop on Division Street, If the offer Paul McCartney member and the long-time en- just off Music Row, Winfrey introduced me. I was made 36 years ago still holds, gineer hope McCartney’s visit looked up to see one of the Lloyd Green wouldn’t mind Monday to Bridgestone Arena world’s most famous smiles taking him up on it this time by will afford those opportunities. looking his way. shaking like a leaf.” hauling his steel guitar to cen- Both the offer and the prom- “They came in the back door,” ter stage and joining the former Ernie Winfrey, Steel guitar player and engineer ise were made in July 1974 Winfrey says, looking across the Beatle on a house-rocking ver- when Winfrey engineered Mc- now modernized, digitized and sion of “Sally G.” Cartney’s unplanned “Nashville sanitized studio. “He parked Ernie Winfrey doesn’t want Sessions,” for which late Mu- in back and then came in back to perform. He just wants that sic Row icon Buddy Killen re- there. handshake the Beatle cruited a handful of A-teamers, “Paul just waved, and he and shook off with including Green, to supplement Linda just sat down and waited a friendly the Wings recording sessions. until we fi nished up. When we McCartney and Wings, his were done, Buddy introduced post-Beatles band, had come me. I was shaking like a leaf.” to Middle Tennessee to He thought it was just a visit. take it easy and rehearse He didn’t know McCartney was for the now-legendary scouting the studio and that in a Wings Over America matter of days Winfrey would be tour. engineering two weeks of his- But it wasn’t long before toric Nashville sessions that in- he found himself in the Sound cluded the two-sided 45 rpm hit Shop, a historic though nonde- “Sally G.”/“Junior’s Farm.” script studio tucked beneath the It was after the “Sally G.” ses- “glitz” of what now passes for sion that Green, among the team Music Row. of hired guns, made a decision In the summer of 1974, that would change his life. the studio was operated “We started on a few takes by Killen, McCartney’s of ‘Sally G.’ And after he was host for the visit. Kil- fairly well satisfi ed, Paul called len made arrangements me over. He said ‘come here, for Wings, then soaring Lloyd, I want to talk with you on the success of “Band about something. I’m fi xin’ to do on the Run” – still con- a tour. It’s two months and it’s sidered by many to be called Wings Over America. McCartney’s fi nest post- “‘I’ve got a great idea: How Beatles effort – to stay at about you do the tour with me, Curly Putman Jr.’s Wil- and I’ll do 15 minutes of every son County spread. show that’ll be a country seg- Putman (“Green, ment. Green Grass of Home”) “‘It’ll be me and you. We’ll and his wife went to Ha- use only four musicians and waii for a few weeks on Mc- we’ll do entirely country.’” Cartney’s tab so Wings could Green, now 72, laughs when work out songs. In his free time, he recounts that tale. “And be- McCartney was known to mo- fore he said anything else, I said torcycle the highways between ‘Paul, I really appreciate the of- Gladeville and Lebanon, stop- fer. I just don’t have time.’” ping at country markets for chat- Back then Green was booked ter and watermelon slices, a treat two or three months in advance for which wife Linda had a par- for three or four sessions a day, ticular passion. working with a constellation of MORE INFO They might have been happy Paul McCartney’s Nash- They might have been happy country stars including Ricky ville performance begins in that semi-vacation mode. But Skaggs, Nanci Griffi th, Char- at 7:30 Monday July 26 at Killen had other ideas. ley Pride, Don Williams, Faron Bridgestone Arena. A few “Buddy being Buddy, he Young, Del Reeves, George tickets remain through made sure Paul knew he had a Jones and Tammy Wynette. resellers on the internet. studio he could use if he decided The Hall of Fame steel man Prices range from $86 to record,” says Winfrey, whose also can be heard on all of Johnny (singles) to $1,500. list of engineering credits at the Paycheck’s classic Little Darlin’ Sound Shop and at Woodland recordings, as well as Hank Jr.’s Studios include Otis Blackwell, MGM sessions. And he wasn’t photos by Donn Jones Wilson Pickett, Marty Robbins, limited to country, either. He is Steel player Lloyd Green proudly dis- Eddy Arnold, Dolly Parton, a key part of The Byrds’ historic plays the Poloroid shot of himself with Johnny Rivers and Willie Nel- Sweetheart of the Rodeo album Paul and Linda McCartney in 1974. son. and worked with J.J. Cale, Henry July 23 - 29, 2010 www.westviewonline.com Page 3 Ramona and Beezus Rated G photo by xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx Cutline xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ATTIC ANTIQUES Musicians who participated in Paul McCartney’s July 1974 “Nashville Sessions” included: 996 Davidson Dr. (next to Drew’s Deli) 615-353-9656 • Open Mon-Sat. 10-5 Wings: Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Horns arranger: Tony Dorsey FURNITURE, LAMPS, GLASS, PICTURES Geoff Britton (drums), Denny Laine (rhythm Engineer: Ernie Winfrey guitar, vocals), Jimmy McCulloch (lead guitar). Producer: Paul McCartney Nashville Cats: Lloyd Green (steel guitar), Chet Atkins (guitar), Floyd Cramer (piano), Recorded at Buddy Killen’s Sound Shop on Bobby Thompson (banjo, rhythm guitar), Division Street. Vassar Clements (fiddle), Johnny Gimble This list was compiled from conversations with (fiddle), George Tidwell (trumpet), Dennis some of these musicians. If you are one of these Good (trombone), Billy Puett (clarinet), Norm musicians and you’d like to share your memories or if you are not among those listed, but who did take Ray (baritone sax), Don Sheffield (trumpet), part, contact writer Tim Ghianni (timothy.ghianni@ the Cates Sisters, Margie and Marcie. comcast.net). Mancini and Earl Klugh. a rocker, playing drums through- The great and too-often-for- Many musicians would drop out the region with Litton High gotten Bobby Thompson played anything to be a part of a Bea- mates The Monarchs. Like all rhythm guitar and, of course, tle’s band. Even Green can’t garage band players, his world banjo. figure out for sure why he made changed when The Beatles came The arrangements were by the decision. to America in 1964. Tony Dorsey, a trombonist fre- “I don’t know why I chose not “I loved everything about the quently employed to give some to do it.” he says. “I think there Beatles. We all did,” Winfrey verve to the R&B tracks laid was a little fear that if I lose 60 recalls. For that reason, the two down at Sound Shop. He appar- days, I’d come back and people full weeks he was the engineer ently impressed the Beatle, as would say ‘we don’t need you to for the Wings sessions still are Dorsey was hired by McCart- do sessions anymore.’’’ something of a dream. ney to arrange the music for the He says the rock legend un- Winfrey reaches into his Wings’ tours. derstood commitments and let satchel to produce detailed notes “Paul, in addition to playing it drop. of the songs he engineered for bass, also played an old wash- Green notes that after McCart- Paul, who supplanted Killen as board that he had found at a ney left Nashville, Wings went producer. little store near Loveless Café. to New Orleans for more record- “Buddy wanted to do it, but He actually used it as a rhythm ing sessions. There the Beatle after awhile Paul told him he just instrument by scraping thimbles met the New Orleans Horns, wanted it to be me and the band. on his fingers over the rippled who he did convince to flesh out Paul was the man.