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Glenmark · 10-20-2005, 01:17 PM

I appreciate the thread. If Rubin could do for Gordon what he did for Johnny Cash, that would be cool, but the problem is that the Rubin/Cash collaborations featured Cash singing a lot of other people's songs in addition to his own, and while that might work for GL too, I think his own compositions are the best. I mentioned in a different thread that if I were to tell GL anything based on listening to Harmony and seeing him in Reno (and I say this with all due diffidence and fear and trembling), it would be to sing softly (a la JJ Cale), eat the mic, and let the 66-year-old voice sound as intimate as pa on the front porch. That's the sort of thing Rubin is good at pulling off, but for some reason, maybe because I just love his stuff, I'd like to see GL work with Daniel Lanois.

10-20-2005, 01:17 PM	#3
Glenmark Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 65	I appreciate the thread. If Rubin could do for Gordon what he did for Johnny Cash, that would be cool, but the problem is that the Rubin/Cash collaborations featured Cash singing a lot of other people's songs in addition to his own, and while that might work for GL too, I think his own compositions are the best. I mentioned in a different thread that if I were to tell GL anything based on listening to Harmony and seeing him in Reno (and I say this with all due diffidence and fear and trembling), it would be to sing softly (a la JJ Cale), eat the mic, and let the 66-year-old voice sound as intimate as pa on the front porch. That's the sort of thing Rubin is good at pulling off, but for some reason, maybe because I just love his stuff, I'd like to see GL work with Daniel Lanois.