{"id":4062,"date":"2017-06-21T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2017-06-21T17:43:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T17:43:13","slug":"singing-is-believing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=4062","title":{"rendered":"Singing is Believing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"kr2o\" data-offset-key=\"3a9kg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3a9kg-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3a9kg-0-0\">Been in recording sessions where the producer (or the engineer) seems ambivalent towards the singer and inattentive to listening for the emotional content (isn&#8217;t that the singer\u2019s job description?). With printed lyrics they\u2019re ready to correct the singer about a forgotten word or ensure the verses are in the right order otherwise they act like their watching tv &#8211; worse a rerun.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"kr2o\" data-offset-key=\"3j6j3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3j6j3-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3j6j3-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"kr2o\" data-offset-key=\"bqmk3-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bqmk3-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bqmk3-0-0\">Even singers sometimes act blas\u00e9 or perhaps sidetracked by criticism about their pitch or phrasing &#8211; maybe they got a parking ticket, whatever &#8211; they\u2019re not in the best mood. Woe be the singer who\u2019s attention wanders from what the song is about. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"kr2o\" data-offset-key=\"a66a4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a66a4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a66a4-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"kr2o\" data-offset-key=\"67ndk-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"67ndk-0-0\">My favourite part about producing is the part where it\u2019s just the singer, the person representing the ideas of the song. Sometimes asking where they were\/ what happened when they wrote the song leads to best takes.<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"67ndk-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"67ndk-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"67ndk-0-0\">When I listen to Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing This Train or I Want You (She\u2019s So Heavy) or Ballad Of a Thin Man or The Revolution Will Not Be Televised or Mississippi Goddam I believe every vowel. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"kr2o\" data-offset-key=\"9kss9-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9kss9-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9kss9-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"kr2o\" data-offset-key=\"dsdk2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dsdk2-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dsdk2-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dsdk2-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sister-Rosetta-Tharpe-3-.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4064\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sister-Rosetta-Tharpe-3-.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sister-Rosetta-Tharpe-3-.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sister-Rosetta-Tharpe-3--150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Sister-Rosetta-Tharpe-3--300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been in recording sessions where the producer (or the engineer) seems ambivalent towards the singer and inattentive to listening for the emotional content (isn&#8217;t that the singer\u2019s job description?). 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