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Originally Posted by TheWildHeart67
He helped her with music, arranging her songs and got her into FM in 1974.
That was over 40 years ago.
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1977- Dreams, Gold Dust Woman, Silver Springs
1979- Sara, Storms, Angel
1982- Gypsy
All songs that would NOT have been a fraction as good as they are without his help. Listen to her songwriting demo of Gypsy and see all the layers he added in. Sara? Listen to the crescendoing backing vocals he added to give the song some much needed momentum, his sparkling and stellar acoustic playing on Silver Springs, along with his solo make that song, all the guitars, and sitars ad other effects on GDW were not her ideas.....etc etc etc
Oh and when she gets stuck on solo songs (many, but Soldier's Angel was one of the more recent ones) she calls him.
Petty said that Lindsey "is her best producer. I can be up all night trying to figure out what to do with one of her songs and then he'll go 'do this' and I'll think, yeah, duh, that's so obvious"
She could not get her songs out in a way that would have gotten them played and listened to by a wide audience without other people - Lindsey, Jimmy, Tom, Dave, Rupert.........and all the actual musicians. Lindsey can do a whole album by himself.
