two first played me some of these tracks, Phil Rex produced all my vocals except “Spend that he had close to completion. He invited me
commented on that he felt his vocals were a My Life With You”. He’s a great producer and to collaborate on the lyrics and come up with
“25-year-old Phil” singing. Rex as the producer a very good vocal coach. I felt at ease and the a vocal melody. We thought about revisiting a
how did you approach capturing Phil’s voice melodies just flowed. It turns out that this is a number of my old songs and Rex produced
and Phil what were you thinking as you stepped very good vocal album. Rex has a strong voice those tracks and I played and sang on those
up to the mic to sing? and we harmonized well together. I like his lead old songs. I really feel he infused new life into
vocals very much as well. these recordings. I think this will be an album
[Rex] I’ve been producing here in Nashville for
that will flow nicely listening from the first to the
25 years now, with a lot with artists connected [WM] When Classic Rock music was born, it last track, but because of the times we live in
to Sony ATV Publishing, so I’ve developed a lot seemed to all of us, that the song sequence on we recorded all of the songs with the hope they
of supportive coaching skills. With Phil, it was a record was meant to be experienced starting would stand on their own as well.
like telling Rembrandt what you wanted him from the first song on Side A to the last song to paint. He has a trademark voice, and has on Side B. In this modern day of “streaming [WM] Rex, As the Producer (and as a
sung well on anything I’ve ever heard him on, music” recorded songs seem to be presented musician) on this record how did you approach
including most every live performance. To use a for more of a “buffet-line” consumption – a little the song tempo sequence and what was your
football coach analogy, I was just “in the booth of this and a little of that. Phil, how did you each thinking behind it?
calling plays”, as well as a cheerleader. Plus, we approach this new Illumination record with that are sold out to the message of our One Hope. in mind?
[Rex] I didn’t really think about it as a task - we
just let the songs be born as they developed.
[Phil] Well, maybe I exaggerated a bit- maybe [Phil] Honestly, I think we approached I would send Phil a chord progression/
a 45-year old - but that’s young too. (laughing) the songs on the merit of each one alone – groove idea, we would go back and forth
meaning Rex would come to me with a song with arrangement ideas, then we would write
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