Confirmed Official "Say You Will" Tracklisting...

[Johnny Stew]

Originally posted by BlueGrass
So what did Lindsey, John and Mick do? I mean, did they have to play according to how the music was written, or just Lindsey and John?

I'm not entirely sure if I understand the question, but I'll try to answer it.

The musicians in the band would do what all musicians do, they would play the song that was written... adding to it and elaborating upon it, with various instruments.
As a producer, Lindsey might fiddle with the tempo, or the arrangement, but it's highly unlikely that he would alter the melody, etc.... no matter who wrote it.

I think sometimes the idea of Lindsey "constructing" Stevie's songs, gets a little muddled.
He doesn't "write" the music to Stevie's songs, and I don't think he's ever completely overhauled her original melody... he simply molds the song into a finished product, by fine-tuning it in various ways.
He'll take Stevie's fairly straight-forward and simplistic chord structures, and build the instrumentation around them. He'll also decide which musical ideas from the original demo should be pursued, and which should be abandoned... like any good producer should.

(By the way, I'm in no way belittling the amount of work Lindsey does, production-wise and instrumentally... I'm just trying to clear up the idea that he basically writes the music to Stevie's songs. He follows Stevie's original idea, and enhances it so that it will have broader commercial appeal.)



Johnny Stew