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Originally posted by blinker12
Here's at least one instance where the old saw that "Lindsey forcibly molded Stevie's flaky material into real songs" is clearly not true.
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Personally I've always felt that the idea that Lindsey had some kind of svengali-like control over Stevie's songs, is terribly misguided.
If a song is great, it's great no matter who produces it (multiple piano-only versions of "Rhiannon" attest to that... as does this piano-only demo of "Sisters Of The Moon." And there are others).
While I do firmly believe that Lindsey's incredible production skills did *enhance* many of these songs... I don't think his influence was the one and only element that made them so great.
Not to mention the fact that Richard Dashut and Ken Caillat might have a definite argument against the notion of Lindsey receiving *all* the credit for the sound of these records.
At any rate, I am by no means bashing Lindsey (that's not something I have any desire of doing)... it just seems to me that sometimes there's a disproportionate amount of credit being doled out to him, for the appeal of Stevie's songs.
Johnny Stew