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Originally Posted by AliP
Thanks for explaining. I never quite understood the difference. So I guess people don't get credit for arrangement?
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If it's a significant amount of arranging, then they can get a producer credit.
Movie business producer = music business record executive
Movie business director = music business producer
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Originally Posted by Jyqm
Honestly, I really can't answer that question just because I have no idea what exactly the origins of Stevie's various co-written songs are, what exactly Stevie or anybody else brought to the table, why certain people are credited with co-writing certain songs. Anybody else?
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I think Stevie ran out of musical ideas around the Wild Heart era. I'm assuming from what I've read and heard that she receives music tracks from various trusted sources. If she likes what she hears, she sings along to them with her cut and paste from her journals. If the amalgam works out, she records and (possibly) releases it.
"Running Through the Garden" and "Battle of the Dragon" - the music to both of these songs was written by the same team (g. nicholson & j. jarvis). These songs were finished during the same RAL period.
Mike Campell from the Heartbreakers has consistently sent her music tracks. Benmont Tench gave her one, too (the infamous "Desert Angel").
Again, I think Stevie ran out of new music ideas quite some time ago. She used to write all the time in the I IV V key of G in her early days. All those "Anybody There" / "Stay Away" / "Amber" songs are all like that- "That's Alright" was also originally in G. With "Rhiannon" came the days of Am and all the subsequent key of F songs- "Beautiful Child", "Sisters of the Moon", "Gypsy", "Sara", "Outside the Rain", "Straight Back", "Sable on Blond", "No Spoken Word", "Sweet Girl", "Fall From Grace"....
Other than that, she has occasional hiccough of songs that are based on bass line driven chord progressions- "Blue Lamp", "Baby Doll", "Whole Lotta Trouble" and "Trouble In Shangri-La" are all songs where the chord progression follows Stevie's bass line "melody".
It all makes sense to me. She's not really a musician, so it can become difficult to write inspired songs with the same old chords. Trouble is- it can even be MORE uninspired when one adds clumsy lyrics and a half-assed melody to someone else's music ("That Made Me Stronger"
"Love Changes"
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