The music ranges from jazz and blues to swing to country and gospel. Produced by Scott Billington with help from writer Peter Guralnick and Joe McEwen, Rich developed his material from informal jam sessions held over a couple of years with friends. Pictures and Paintings offers 11 slices of Rich the public had rarely, if ever, seen. While Rich came into the public eye in the 1950s writing for Jerry Lee Lewis and with his own '60s hit "Mohair Sam," and became a superstar known as the Silver Fox in the early '70s for his Billy Sherrill-produced hits like "Behind Closed Doors," none of these records came close to capturing the complex essence of who Rich was as a songwriter, arranger, and pianist. ![]() Ironically, it was to be his last recording Rich died less than three years later of a blood clot in his lung in a motel in Florida. ![]() Despite a career that lasted over four decades, no record he ever made came as close to capturing the totality of Charlie Rich's musical persona as Pictures and Paintings.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |