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The Great Albums

Those Pretty Wrongs (interview w/ Jody Stephens [of Big Star] and Luther Russell)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2016

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Bill and Brian welcome legendary Big Star drummer Jody Stephens and acclaimed LA musician Luther Russell for a slightly different than usual episode. We had the pleasure to have the artists themselves provide a track by track commentary! Bill and Brian took the opportunity to head down to Memphis, spend time at Ardent Studios, and chat with Jody and Luther about the making of their album, the self titled debut from Those Pretty Wrongs (due out May 13th, 2016 from Ardent Music and Burger Records). Jody and Luther discuss the beginnings of the band, the cross continent writing process, recording at the historic Ardent using some of Chris Bell's guitars, their influences (such as Willis Alan Ramsey), and the positivity inherent throughout the album before we discuss the entire album, one song at a time. As we make our way through, we talk about how mean Eva Gardner could be (in film), Jody's dog's journey through some health issues, empty Chinese cities, arranging harmonies (that feature Danny De La Matyr!), a great story about a toy cube and sideshow freaks, the influence of Big Star's Alex Chilton and Chris Bell on the songwriting and their presence in the DNA of the music, remaining positive in the face of loss, and so so much more! Make sure to check out the album from Those Pretty Wrongs, due out May 13th from Ardent Music in partnership with Burger Records! www.thoseprettywrongs.com ardentmusic.11spot.com www.burgerrecords.org Many thanks to Addison Hare for making this happen!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Woke up this morning, a little off track, slipped out a bed, fell flat on my back, but I'm a lucky guy.

0:16.0

Oh, I'm a lucky guy.

0:25.9

Hello, and welcome to the great albums podcast. I'm Bill.

0:29.5

And I'm Brian.

0:30.4

And what were we just listening to right there, Brian?

0:33.1

Well, we were listening to Those Pretty Wrongs.

0:36.6

And if you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week is take a

0:41.3

different album of music and talk about what makes it great.

0:44.8

But today we kind of have something a little bit different.

0:48.6

Yeah, we are decidedly not doing this alone.

0:52.1

But it's not even that we're taking something that we love and having a guest come in and

0:57.4

talk about why they love it, which is, you know, what we normally do.

0:59.9

We go through and...

1:00.9

Track by track.

1:01.9

Yeah, do a track by track review.

1:04.0

Talk about, like, you know, the history of the band a little bit.

1:06.3

Talk about, like, why people love the things they love.

1:09.1

Instead, we...

1:09.7

Like, this is unique. Like, Brian, explain what's going to happen shortly.

1:13.1

Well, we're going to cut into Jody Stevens and Luther Russell of those pretty wrongs.

1:19.7

We just took a trip down to Memphis, Tennessee and sat in Studio A at Ardent Studios and just went over the track by track with those two guys.

1:30.5

They just song by song talked about how the band formed, how the songs were written, how the

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