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Booker T of the MG's: Time Is Tight

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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How to Arrange a Song for the Horns

I think this was one of his kind of foot stomping masterpieces that he came up with and dictating, saying the lines to the horns. I don't think we had strings on this song. We could always tell the horn players to play by ear and just hum the lines to them, but when we had strings and we had to write it down. String players can't do that. Well, they can, some can,. but, but usually I would just, you know, write a chart for them.

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