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  1. [...] back to our Willie Mitchell profile in Issue 9, and you’ll notice that the Hi sound was crafted by sets of siblings: the Hodges brothers on [...]

    Marcia Griffiths Sweet Bitter Love (Trojan) 1974 « Wax Poetics
  2. [...] arrangement on Detroit’s Westbound in 1972. Bowlegs had previously served as an apprentice to Hi’s Willie Mitchell, arranging and co-producing some of the earlier Ann Peebles sides for the label. So don’t be [...]

    Denise LaSalle (Westbound) 1972 « Wax Poetics
  3. [...] a Sad Thing” bursts out of the gates sounding like a Sam & Dave barnstormer circa 1968. Willie Mitchell disciple and ubiquitous Memphis arranger Gene “Bowlegs” Miller invokes the sound that [...]

    Ollie Nightingale (Memphis) 1971 « Wax Poetics
  4. [...] Miami sound, Latimore’s “Let’s Straighten It Out” borrows something from Willie Mitchell’s understated aesthetic but nonetheless manages to stake out its own distinctly Floridian [...]

    Latimore (Glades) 1974 « Wax Poetics
  5. [...] wanted to know how long it would take to make him a star,” Mitchell told Andria Lisle in Wax Poetics Issue 9. “I told him eighteen months, and you know what he said? ‘I really can’t wait [...]

    Willie Mitchell, 1928-2010 « Wax Poetics

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