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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

CHAPTER

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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