ture, bringing his skill set to new
productions. This was evident
when the founder of the progressive rock band Porcupine
Tree, Steven Wilson, tapped Parsons to work on his third solo
studio effort, The Raven That
Refused to Sing (And Other Stories). “I was engineer and associate producer. I couldn’t take
the production credit away from
Steven; he’s a very capable producer and engineer in his own
right. He brought me in because
he wanted to make an album in
‘the old school way.’ Because of
his age, that wasn’t an approach
he previously had an opportunity to do.”
Will there be more solo albums? Parsons suspects not,
citing that modern media consumption habits no longer
peacefully coexist with something as complicated as concept
albums. “We live in a singledownload world, and less and
less people are purchasing or
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