David Crosby is a longtime Steely Dan super fan; he’s called Donald Fagen one of his all-time songwriting heroes, and he lists Aja and the Royal Scam among his favorite albums ever created. But he never actually got a chance to work with Fagen until the sessions for his upcoming LP For Free (out July 23rd) where they teamed up to create “Rodriguez for a Night.”
“I’m so honored he gave us a set of words,” Crosby told Rolling Stone last year. “I’ve been asking him for a couple of years.
“I’m so honored he gave us a set of words,” Crosby told Rolling Stone last year. “I’ve been asking him for a couple of years.
- 6/23/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
James Raymond — son of David Crosby and member of the band CPR — is launching a new music project under the name the Clearing, for which he writes and produces songs for a rotating group of singers and musicians. The project’s first single, released to Soundcloud on Friday, is an election-themed tune titled “I Used to Know Someone.”
Nashville singer Randall Thomas — who co-wrote “I Used to Know Someone” with Raymond — leads vocals on the track, backed by Raymond, Gary Novak on drums (Alanis Morissette, Chick Corea, Michael McDonald), and...
Nashville singer Randall Thomas — who co-wrote “I Used to Know Someone” with Raymond — leads vocals on the track, backed by Raymond, Gary Novak on drums (Alanis Morissette, Chick Corea, Michael McDonald), and...
- 11/6/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
At the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, three of the projects screening in the Short Film Corner — “Birthday,” “Phenomenally Me” and “Without Dying” — will be products of the DePaul/Cha Documentary Filmmaking Program, a six-week course co-sponsored by the Chicago Housing Authority in which high school girls learn filmmaking from graduate students and faculty of DePaul University.
The program’s founders know that access to moviemaking and equipment — and the chance to put them into action — can be a life-changing experience. Just ask Zana Carter, who a few summers ago was a high school student with a love of writing and the films of Spike Lee and a desire to see more stories on screen that reflected her life as a resident of Chicago public housing.
“Those things drove me into filmmaking,” says Carter. “Being part of an African American community with stories not being shared that should be acknowledged” was important.
The program’s founders know that access to moviemaking and equipment — and the chance to put them into action — can be a life-changing experience. Just ask Zana Carter, who a few summers ago was a high school student with a love of writing and the films of Spike Lee and a desire to see more stories on screen that reflected her life as a resident of Chicago public housing.
“Those things drove me into filmmaking,” says Carter. “Being part of an African American community with stories not being shared that should be acknowledged” was important.
- 5/17/2019
- by Tom Mclean
- Variety Film + TV
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