the dallas recordings
 

now i know these have never surfaced, but we all love to talk about what she recorded in dallas, for trouble in shangri la...any ideas, on what she recorded...rumour has it, she recorded all the beautiful worlds for trouble, and i heard that is where she recorded the song chanel chanel aka in the darkness

The dallas recordings are "The Dallas Austin Sessions", which were her recording sessions with producer Dallas Austin...she never recorded anything for that album in Dallas, Texas.

Yeah, those songs need to leak NOW. Does anybody have that cartoon Stevie from Entertainment Weekly when they reported on this? People need to see that Badonka Donk butt if they haven't.

Dallas Austin was on the Real Housewives of Atlanta, he mentioned Stevie Nicks had recorded in his studio so he probably has master reels so until he goes broke or something, we won't see them for awhile...:(

I don't think Stevie or her managment will ever make the mistake of not controlling her master reels again :distress:

Here ya go!

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...tedit2-1-2.jpg

any speculation on what was recorded?

Thanks. I remember the little title above the story was "Mac Daddy".

I think I remember...
 

that they recorded a version of Bombay Sapphires together at the very least.

man i was so excited when dallas mentioned stevie on that show~

I would like to hear these if available.:blob2::blob1::blob1::blob2:

So are these recordings before all the 1999 demos?? Just wondering what year were looking at?? I don't think I've ever heard about this at all before?? It would be interesting to know what/or how many songs were recorded with him?? :nod:

but still, no one knows what was recorded??

The idea has been floated that You're Not The One was one of the Dallas Austin songs.

what song is "your not the one" ????

oo! I like that song. It is avalible on Sheryl Crow's importCD soak up the sun, and on the single for the song soak up the sun. Its a cool kissoff song. Just very matter of fact. Stevies lyrics, and sheryl sings lead, with stevie weaving in and out.

From various Stevie interviews, this is the best I can figure out.

Stevie started recording with Sheryl Crow. After the initial sessions with Sheryl, Stevie recorded four songs with Dallas Austin. In one of the media blurbs it mention that one of the songs was the title track Trouble in Shangri-La. Stevie scrapped the songs because they sounded too R&B and did not fit with the songs that she had recorded with Sheryl. Stevie and Sheryl then did another recording session that produced TFFT. Stevie received Everyday from John Shanks and then asked him to finish producing the rest of the album.

As mentioned above, Bombay Sapphires is most likely a second song. Stevie said that she ended up producing it because the first version was too R&B and the John Shanks version was too rock and roll.

POTU is a good possibility as well. Stevie stated that when her assistant gave her the Shanks version she was not very hopeful because she had recorded it so many times and nobody including Sheryl knew what to do with it.

So my guess is John Shanks tried to redo the Austin tracks. Stevie mentioned that she wrote FFG as the last track since she felt the the album needed another rocker... so I doubt that is number four.

Not sure when Love Changes, Love Is or I Miss You fit in. Also, there were several articles where it was mentioned that Sheryl wanted Stevie to write a song for Sheryl's album and that is how You're not the One came about. So I never considered that to be an option, but considering the R&B vibe to it, maybe it was a leftover from that session as well.

Of course this is all based on my memory of Stevie's memories.

Thanks, that's a nice summary.

Nothing has ever been confirmed. All of us have been speculating about these sessions for years. When the alternate recording of Bombay Sapphires surfaced years ago, I thought maybe this could be one of his productions because of the heavy bass presence, which is very unusual for a Stevie studio recording, but standard on most R&B productions today.

I wonder if the reason why it all fell apart was when Stevie realized Dallas was a coke addict (he was... don't know if he still is).

I mean, the only reason why she wanted to work with Dallas & Rodney Jerkins was because she loved the TLC song "Unpretty", an R&B song. For her to dismiss the results as "too R&B" (which I'm not disputing- that was her reason) seems to suggest something else as the reason why.

If she had liked the results I think she may have been able to look past his addiction as long as it was not impacting the work ..I am certain she has had to work with alot of people addicted to coke since her own trip to Betty Ford 22 years ago .Mick Fleetwood among them.It would also seem that one of the most notorious cokeheads in the history of rock might have been a least a bit empathic toward Dallas's plight?:shrug:

For what it is worth, Dallas Austin had nothing but complimentary things to say at the time, e.g.:


http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_dallas_austin_producing/

He also said somewhere that he was unsure if the sessions would make the final record.

And - here is what La Nicks said about Dallas:

Nicks started recording the album in Atlanta with producer Dallas Austin of TLC fame after noticing how much TLC's 1999 hit Unpretty resembled her layered style. However, the songs they cut together were scrapped.

http://www.nicksfix.com/article_miam..._may1_2001.htm

So, I do not think it is anything other than what they said it was.

The only thing that confuses me about it is at the end she says "I cannot pretend...you're not the one." It's yet another murky lyric from Ms. Nicks.