History: The Wikipedia page for this EP is pretty scant, but the liner notes seem to feature a pretty wide range of session musicians as well as some famous friends providing backing vocals. It was recorded in 2020 but I don’t know if that means everyone was recording their parts at home or if they […]
History: During lockdown for the COVID19 pandemic Paul started working on songs by himself, originally unsure if he would release it or not. Given that it was mostly done alone, the decision was made to release it as McCartney III. Technically “Slidin’” features other musicians besides Paul since its raw track was from the Egypt […]
History: Ringo recorded what he decided would most likely be his last full length album at his home studio along with frequent collaborators Joe Walsh, Paul, Dave Stewart, and more. He made the decision to cover John’s “Grow Old With Me” after being given copies of the original recordings by producer Jack Douglas. My own […]
History: Primarily co-produced by Greg Kurstin, this album is a very loose concept album, with two tracks that feature background sounds that suggest a train station, and the remaining songs meant to be “stops” along a dreamworld where the ideas for music come from. The name of the album and its cover are based on […]
History: While Ringo originally wanted to do a country album in Nashville, he ended up recording a mix of rock and country at his home in LA. instead. Many of his frequent collaborators return to help him write songs, and Paul makes an appearance playing bass and doing backing vocals. Peter Frampton is a new […]
History: Paul worked with a total of four different producers this time around – Mark Ronson, Ethan Johns, Paul Epworth, and Giles Martin, with Giles Martin executive producing the entire album. This was Paul’s last album for Starbucks’ Hear Music label. My own personal history and initial prediction: The album cover of this one looks […]
History: Paul got together with jazz producer Tommy LiPuma to come up with ideas of various standards the two of them could record together. They decided to make a full album of it, also adding in a couple of Paul’s original songs done in the same style. With the exception of a little acoustic guitar, […]
History: Choreographer Peter Martins approached Paul about writing something for ballet, and Paul already had a discarded piece of music in mind that he thought could work. He ended up writing all the music and coming up with a story for the piece as well. His daughter Stella designed the costumes for the performance at […]
History: This time around Paul decided to add vocals to the songs to make the release a bit different than the previous works. Each song was recorded over the course of one day, though not one after the other. The two musicians would work on the songs periodically over the course of a year. My […]
History: Recording of most of the tracks on the album occurred before recording Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. When that album was finished Paul returned to these songs, and finding that he still liked most of them tweaked them here and there along with recording a few new songs to complete it. This was […]
After The End 