Ernie Winfrey, center, was among the readers in the 2014 AES Nashville Lifetime Achievement Honours on Sunday in the New Bands Hall of Fame.(Photo: Ray McCormack / THE TENNESSEAN)
Without recording engineers, there’s no such factor as Music City.
Sunday mid-day in the New Bands Hall of Fame and Museum’s Ford Theater, engineers Jimmy Lockert, Charlie Bragg, Neil Wilburn, Al Pachucki, Mack Evans and Ernie Winfrey received lifetime achievement honours in the Audio Engineering Society’s Nashville Chapter.
The AES designated these males, largely unknown by everyone yet crucial in the tracks of classics by Elvis, Bob Dylan, The Righteous Siblings, Etta James, Paul McCartney, Frank Sinatra, Guy Clark, the shore Boys and much more, as “audio designers from the Nashville Seem.”
“We’re honoring the scope of labor these males did over their lives,” stated the event’s moderator, Michael Janas, who shows at Belmont University’s Curb College of Entertainment &lifier Record Companies.
That scope was readily apparent because the mid-day unfolded, with tales concerning the engineers, contributing to recording periods that spanned musical genres.
Lockert was part of Bradley’s Film &lifier Recording, the very first studio on which has become Music Row, where he recorded country and rockabilly music from the mid-nineteen fifties. He ended up in La, taking and mixing sounds for that Beach Boys’ “Good Oscillations,” The Righteous Siblings “(You’re My) Soul &lifier Inspiration” along with other mammoth productions.
Bragg recorded the very first live album made in a prison: Johnny Cash’s “At Folsom Prison.” He assisted create what’s now known as country-rock by recording The Byrds’ “Sweetheart from the Rodeo” periods, he designed Ray Price’s classic “For the great Times” and that he also recorded Lynn Anderson’s signature hit, “Rose Garden.”
“We sitting and took in to that particular song again and again,” Anderson remembered, telling from the evening that song was recorded, when music artists and producers collected for any boozy celebration of the items seemed immediately just like a smash record. “Charlie managed to get special.”
Wilburn recorded Leonard Cohen’s “Songs From the Room” album, Jeannie C. Riley’s “Harper Valley PTA,” Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline,” Guy Clark’s “Old No. 1” and much more.
Pachucki — who upon the market within the eighties and has a tendency to refuse interview demands — recorded Grammy-those who win including John Hartford’s “Gentle on my small Mind,” Elvis Presley’s “He Touched Me” and Cortelia Clark’s “Blues on the street.Inches Also, he assisted create country music’s “outlaw” movement by engineering “Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Stories and Lies” and Waylon Jennings’ “Honky Tonk Heroes.”
Evans assisted engineer “Etta James Rocks the House” at Nashville’s New Trend club on Jefferson Street, Ringo Starr’s Nashville-based solo album as well as some Nashville Symphony performances, and that he founded pioneering learning company Masterfonics.
Winfrey was the only real honored “architect” present in the ceremony: Pachucki didn’t attend, Evans has been around illness and also the others have left. Noted for his use Paul McCartney, Dolly Parton, Wilson Pickett and Neil Youthful, as well as for his 22-year stint at Nashville studio SoundShop, Winfrey introduced a relevant video clip of him getting together with McCartney throughout it of “Sally G” in Nashville.
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