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in his hand by the time he was six years old lowe became sort of his mentor and guitar hero and would allow him to sit in with his band at local state line clubs before he was out of grade school his zip city neighborhood was also home to earl peanutt montgomery the man whose career as a songwriter included a slew of top ten country hits he penned for his main man george jones billy was paying attention the music was in him and he knew he had no choice but to follow where it might lead while still in his teens billy and his band began working that same state line dance hall circuit junior had in his early twenties he got himself a job at terry woodford and clayton ivey s wishbone studios in muscle shoals learning about songwriting from some of the best in the business billy and his band were still playing most nights out on the strip which got them noticed by casting director tonya holly who would hire them to appear in the oscar winning film blue sky in 1994 setting his sights on nashville with stars in his eyes it looked like he might have a shot at making it as a performer when he was signed by epic records but billy soon realized that wasn t going to happen his unique way with words caught the attention of tree publishing executive don cook who signed billy on as a staff songwriter in 1995 by the summer of 96 learning as you go a song lawson co wrote with larry boone would top the country charts for rick trevino within a few months trace adkins would take another lawson composition this time written with john schweers i left something turned on at home straight to number one in just a few short years billy ray lawson had become an in demand music city songwriter placing dozens of other songs on the charts as the nature of the music business began to change in nashville after the turn of the century however it would become ever more difficult to make a living as a songwriter in the digital age billy ray decided to stay closer to home the shoals was his stomping grounds and lawson began hanging out with the man who had put the town on the map rick hall over lunches at their favorite italian restaurant billy just soaked it all in he knew what he was called upon to do opening his own big star studio billy began producing a few records after that it seemed like things all began to fall into place wishbone studio which had been empty for years became available and lawson figured out a way to buy it when larry rogers studio 19 was marked for demolition on nashville s music row in 2015 billy worked out a deal with larry to install the studio s trident 90 console at wishbone one of the first records cut there was willie hightower s great come back album out of the blue with the legendary quinton claunch on board as his executive producer the album features some of the best songs billy has ever written like this one the first time we met billy was when reggie and jenny young brought us to claunch cafe in tuscumbia so we could check out johnny belew s amazing cornbread salad billy invited us to visit wishbone the next day where he was in the process of cutting another come back album of sorts darryl worley s second wind latest greatest with he and darryl producing the first single pulled from the album co written with the great ed hill has become a breakthrough digital hit billy lawson and his band now called wishbone are back out there performing locally in the shoals area to rave reviews performer songwriter producer studio owner it might seem like he had this whole music thing sewn up but there was one thing missing his own record label not anymore along with partners mike o rear and james wright billy launched muscle shoals recordings this past week with the release of their first single avalon a loving tribute to rick hall and all things muscle shoals that s junior lowe and travis wammack on guitar there folks and clayton ivey and jim whitehead on the keys same as it ever was billy lawson s got it going on posted by red kelly at 6 13 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday september 18 2019 willie hightower out of the blue every once in a while the forces of the universe seem to align just right and pull things together in unforeseen and miraculous ways this is one of those times willie hightower one of the truly great soul singers of our time has just released his first album in fifty years as good as anything he s ever done it was recorded in muscle shoals and produced by none other than quinton claunch the legendary goldwax impresario who gave us the dark end of the street that in itself is remarkable enough but the fact that willie is now 77 years old and quinton turns ninety seven in december makes this event truly extraordinary i had first met quinton back in 2008 as we put together the o v wright memorial weekend and i made it a point after that to go see him whenever i was in memphis sharp as a tack he s still got one of the best ears in the business after the passing of his wife of sixty nine years in june of 2013 this dyed in the wool record man decided to return to the studio when my partner john broven and i visited him on our soul d road trip the following august he played us the tracks he had just cut in muscle shoals on a kentucky guitarist named alonzo pennington although they sounded great quinton had trouble finding a distributor for the album when he released it on his own soultrax label in early 2015 hold that thought years back dr ike of the ponderosa stomp asked author peter guralnick who knows a little bit about soul music which soul singer he would most like to see perform at the stomp willie hightower was his immediate reply after a few false starts ike contacted us here at soul detective to see if we could locate him for stomp 12 in 2015 as fate would have it john broven s intrepid friend seamus mcgarvey had spoken with willie several times at his home in gadsen alabama and was happy to supply ike with his number once the stomp booked willie ike naturally wanted peter to interview him at that year s music conference only he had a prior committment and was unavailable what about red kelly john broven suggested bless his heart and so i was invited to do an interview and presentation with willie hightower in new orleans in october of 2015 i was just over the moon like most people i didn t know much about willie beyond his amazing fame singles but as i began to do research for the interview i discovered that he had recorded at royal studio in memphis the very studio that quinton claunch and his partners founded in 1957 in 1982 with quinton handling the production although not released at the time the album finally saw the light of day on a japanese cd in 2007 i called claunch to ask him about the sessions and told him about willie s upcoming stomp performance let me know how he sounds he said well as anyone who was there that night can tell you willie hightower gave one of the most solid and soulful performances i have ever witnessed and proved to the world he had lost absolutely nothing off his incredible voice he was back i reported all this to quinton as requested and went on to send him a video of the show to prove my point i didn t know it at the time but billy lawson the muscle shoals studio owner and engineer who had worked with quinton on the alonzo pennington cd had asked him don t you know of any old school soul singers we could cut that s what you do best there s those forces of the universe now folks quinton had his man lawson had just recently taken over wishbone the studio built by clayton ivey and terry woodford after they left fame in 1973 when larry rogers studio 19 in nashville formerly scotty moore s music city faced the wrecking ball billy bought the console and just about went insane re wiring and installing it at wishbone i ll never do that again he told me when we visited the studio last month with the equipment finally where he wanted it billy brought in studio veterans like the aforementioned clayton ivey travis wammack and will mcfarlane and proceeded to cut a record that is pure muscle shoals magic as the tracks were completed quinton began sending them up to john broven and i here in new york and we were just knocked out this was real soul as good as anything willie had ever recorded john in turn played them for roger armstrong at ace in the uk who jumped at the chance to release this landmark album out of the blue was officially issued on august 31st and is now available from ace in vinyl lp cd and mp3 formats you need to own a copy but the forces of the universe weren t through old friend noah schaffer got in touch a while back and asked for willie s number his buddy eli reed wanted to throw a 40th birthday party for him he said and was hoping willie would agree to sing with his band i honestly didn t think they could pull it off but lo and behold willie hightower performed what may have been his first ever boston area gig on september 7th at club sonia in cambridge massachusetts along with deep soul songstress thelma jones and the natural wonders this show just rocked the house peter guralnick was there john broven was there and so was i i wouldn t have missed it for the world and as you can see the show was truly amazing both willie and thelma jones performances were an absolute revelation and eli s smoking band just tore it up life is good red kelly september 2018 posted by red kelly at 6 49 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday september 15 2015 henry henderson i know we talk a lot around here about places like memphis and muscle shoals new orleans chicago detroit philadelphia and nashville but somehow it seems i haven t paid enough attention to my own hometown as the site of the premier black entertainment venue in the world new york truly had it going on throughout the soul era the big town knew few rivals as a recording center in those days as in addition to bobby robinson s harlem empire it was home to major independents like atlantic scepter big top roulette sue jubilee and bell to name a few all of which cut at various hole in the wall studios in and around manhattan home to such luminaries as james brown don covay gary u s bonds roy c and freddie scott long island enjoyed a thriving soul scene all its own with night clubs and lounges that featured live music springing up wherever there was a sizable black community courtesy freeport historical society calling themselves the showcase of talent the celebrity club on sunrise highway in freeport was one of the most celebrated of those clubs and when they brought in leo price to put together their house band in the early sixties he decided to stick around as he told seamus mcgarvey in now dig this i stayed up there playing around those clubs and backing up groups in those days most recording artists didn t have their own bands and the jimmy evans booking agency i was his band he had the acts we played behind it was his connection with evans that made leo a favorite with long island club owners as he was able to bring in national level acts like wilson pickett and the shirelles to keep the cash registers ringing price soon had more work than he could handle and helped install a young singer named henry henderson as the leader of the house band at another popular club named mister c s in roosevelt henderson had grown up in jackson mississippi and by the time he was a teenager he was fronting his own group that was represented by tommy couch s malaco attractions after cutting a few sides for them that were never released henry took off for the bright lights and wound up here on long island in 1964 this was right around the time that little buster s phenomenal lookin for a home was garnering some airplay on local radio henry met buster shortly after that when he was performing at brownie s lounge in lakeview and the two transplanted southerners hit it off following each other around the long island club circuit from the freeport yacht club and the steer inn to club 91 and the bluebird cafe way out in the sticks in a scenario truly remiscent of animal house in the late sixties notorious bar owner robert matherson hired little buster to play for his all white clientele every sunday at the oak beach inn when buster wasn t available henry took his place and between the two of them they introduced an entire generation of essentially clueless caucasians to the real soul music that was happening all around them as the sixties gave way to the seventies the highway inn in uniondale eclipsed the celebrity club as ground zero for long island soul with leo price s band once again providing the back up when leo decided to move on he called on henry to take his place as leader of the house band backing up everyone from big mama thornton to the ohio players in the early seventies henry got together with producer clyde wilson and cut a single for a long island label named interstate 95 as henry recalls it the studio was located in the chrysler building in manhattan and they were all set to release the 45 when the label owner daniel yudow died suddenly and that was the end of that sir shambling calls the l l milton release that clyde wilson produced for the label a real throwback to the 60s and that s just what long island soul has remained all these years as disco began to take hold in the mid seventies henderson had the good sense to lay low for a while and returned home to jackson for a few years by the early eighties he was back on long island starting up a new band the honey holders that would help him carry on in that soulful tradition as you may know i was a huge fan of little buster and as i ve said before i d seen him perform more times than anyone else ever when buster passed on in may 0f 2006 i was devastated it was at a tribute to buster held that june that i first met henry henderson once i heard him sing i knew he was the real deal we would become good friends and his stories about the scene in those days have never failed to fascinate and enlighten me when sir lattimore brown was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 we flew him up here to new york for treatment and began arranging what we thought might be his final performance i asked henry if he would be willing to get the honey holders back together to back him up and he jumped at the chance once the two mississippi natives got together they were thick as thieves and i knew that real soul was in the house as anybody who was there that night can tell you it was a performance we won t soon forget after lattimore tragically passed in 2011 both henry and i decided to keep his memory alive by bringing back his honey holders every year to what has come to be known as the club 91 sir lattimore brown memorial nofo soul bash although the personnel may vary from year to year henry has never failed to deliver the genuine article featuring veterans like saxy ric guitarist s...