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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The Importance of Emotional Content in Music
You wrote the great Albert King song, And you said you picked a particular key for that. Some keys have more emotional content for than others. So I went to C-flat minor for Albert, and he just killed it. He was a guitar player, so it's a little easier to move. You know, left-handed guitar players have to push the strings,. But a right-handed guitar player like Albert can pull the strings. The A-flat G-sharp minor has another element that comes in when you go to the minor keys like that.
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