Well ... here goes.
Marley's Ghost has been around for quite a while but things really began to get interesting about a year ago, when we hired a new manager– a very savvy guy and realized that our friend Van Dyke Parks was the perfect guy to produce our new CD project "SPOOKED" - our eighth - and were able to interest Van Dyke in producing it.
Things heated up when we were able to get underground comics legend R. Crumb to do our CD artwork and we got really excited about the project -- even more so when Van Dyke, having looked over the song list we gave him, began to tweak the songs.
VDP is a freakin' genius and we started having serious fun when recording began at Entourage Studios in Studio City (where else?). Hutch Hutchinson, Bonnie Raitt's longtime bassist volunteered to play on some tracks, ending up on 'Love, Not Reason" on his fretless which was stored around the corner -- he works enough down there that he has basses stashed around various studios. Larry Taylor (remember Canned Heat?) also played standup bass on a fiddle tune as did our dear friend, bassist and accordionist David Jackson and we were off and running.
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