06-04-2020, 16:23
Danny Kortchmar was born on this day in in 1946, in New York City. No idea how I have overlooked him in this thread – he appears on many time-honoured classic albums of a certain era, several of which are personal favourites; Carole King’s Tapestry, Jackson Browne’s Running on Empty, CSN’s Daylight Again, Graham Nash’s Earth and Sky, he’s played with Don Henley, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Mark Cohn, Stephen Stills, he’s had his songs recorded by Harry Nilsson, the Eagles and more – he’s a writer, arranger, producer (Neil Young, Jon Bon Jovi, Stevie Nicks, Billy Joel, Tracy Chapman to name a few), session muso, singer and guitarist and is sometimes credited as Kootch. He’s also released two less than memorable solo albums, I’m sorry to say - if the one I sampled is anything to go by! In this instance the whole is definitely greater than the sum of its parts.
He is most recently one of a group called The Immediate Family which aside from himself comprises, Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel and Steve Postell – they play covers of songs they’ve written, lol! And there’s a good chance that between the lot of them, there are very few artists in the singer/songwriter category with whom they haven’t had an association over the past almost 60 years. They look positively wizardly, and they are!
Here they are doing one that was written for James Taylor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moszhkapae4 – there is a dearth of decent clips.
And this one was written by Danny Kortchmar and includes his harmony vocals, after which I’ll be listening to the whole album (he, Lindley and Mr Browne are the guitarists throughout) …
He is most recently one of a group called The Immediate Family which aside from himself comprises, Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel and Steve Postell – they play covers of songs they’ve written, lol! And there’s a good chance that between the lot of them, there are very few artists in the singer/songwriter category with whom they haven’t had an association over the past almost 60 years. They look positively wizardly, and they are!
Here they are doing one that was written for James Taylor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moszhkapae4 – there is a dearth of decent clips.
And this one was written by Danny Kortchmar and includes his harmony vocals, after which I’ll be listening to the whole album (he, Lindley and Mr Browne are the guitarists throughout) …
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