http://caughtbytheriver.net/2010/01/caught-by-the-reaper-willie-mitchell/ An Antidote to Indifference Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://caughtbytheriver.net/2010/01/caught-by-the-reaper-willie-mitchell/comment-page-1/#comment-212 Music - Caught by the River Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:41:12 +0000 http://caughtbytheriver.net/?p=5921#comment-212 [...] up, a couple of Willie Mitchell productions that were singled out for praise in Richard Williams’ remembrance of the great [...] [...] up, a couple of Willie Mitchell productions that were singled out for praise in Richard Williams’ remembrance of the great [...]

]]> http://caughtbytheriver.net/2010/01/caught-by-the-reaper-willie-mitchell/comment-page-1/#comment-205 Fast Friday links « Beth Brown Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:35:00 +0000 http://caughtbytheriver.net/?p=5921#comment-205 [...] http://caughtbytheriver.net/2010/01/caught-by-the-reaper-willie-mitchell/Like so many of the musicians who were at the heart of R&B in the 1950s and soul in the following decade, Mitchell had received his training in jazz. Where the Mayfields and the Marthas came from the church, the Mitchells – and the King Curtises, the James Jamersons … Mitchell provided arrangements for Sam Phillips’s Sun Records in the late ’50s, but it was his association with Joe Cuoghi’s Hi label, beginning in 1959, that defined his career as an A&R man and producer. … [...] [...] http://caughtbytheriver.net/2010/01/caught-by-the-reaper-willie-mitchell/Like so many of the musicians who were at the heart of R&B in the 1950s and soul in the following decade, Mitchell had received his training in jazz. Where the Mayfields and the Marthas came from the church, the Mitchells – and the King Curtises, the James Jamersons … Mitchell provided arrangements for Sam Phillips’s Sun Records in the late ’50s, but it was his association with Joe Cuoghi’s Hi label, beginning in 1959, that defined his career as an A&R man and producer. … [...]

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