why didn't stevie have lindsay produce any of her solo albums?

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Actually, if it's the album's production you don't care for, Thom Panunzio really can't be blamed for that.

Glyn Johns was the original producer, and he did have a "take-charge" attitude. According to Stevie, the original mixes -- at Johns' insistence -- featured no percussion. Johns also allegedly insisted that Waddy not play on the album ("I was told that the last thing that I would need was Waddy Wachtel"). Stevie has said that Johns knew that she didn't care for what he was doing with the production work, but that she was basically told to "shut up and deal with it."

Once recording was finished and Glyn Johns returned to England (and once Stevie was out of rehab for her Klonopin addiction), she and Thom Panunzio went back into the studio. They opened up the mixes, brought Waddy in to add guitars, and Peter Michael to add percussion, etc. Stevie felt that the album still didn't sound exactly the way she wanted, but that it was ultimately time to call it "finished" and release what they had.

The problem with Street Angel was not the production. It was the songs and Stevie's voice. That album totally rests on her shoulders.