{"id":20066,"date":"2020-12-02T23:31:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=20066"},"modified":"2020-12-02T23:32:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T06:32:24","slug":"the-immediate-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2020\/12\/the-immediate-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Video  &#038; Interview THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Video Premiere &amp; Web-Exclusive Interview<br \/>\n<\/strong>Artist:\u00a0 <strong>THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1>Video:\u00a0 \u201c<strong>New York Minute<\/strong>\u201d<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_20072\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20072\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20072\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-07-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-07-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-07-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Jeff Fasano<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WhAhgXKcFtA\" width=\"660\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>ULTIMATE DREAM TEAM, THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY, RELEASES ICONIC \u201cNEW YORK MINUTE\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Immediate Family is an ultimate dream team of musicians. It\u2019s a rock \u2019n\u2019 roll band composed of longtime friends and legendary musicians\u2014Danny Kortchmar (guitar and vocals), Waddy Wachtel (guitar and vocals), Leland Sklar (bass), Russ Kunkel (drums) and Steve Postell (guitar and vocals).<\/p>\n<p><em>M Music &amp; Musicians <\/em>magazine (Mmusicmag.com) is proud to premiere their new video \u201cNew York Minute.\u201d The music video was produced by the band with the help of Michael Perlmutter of Almost Midnight Productions. It was filmed and produced with the band members in separate locations. It uses footage from a recent live-streamed performance by the band. Perlmutter worked his magic and did all the editing during quarantine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20071\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20071\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20071\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-05-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-05-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-05-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Jeff Fasano<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Steve Postell\u2019s lead vocals will be familiar to many listeners, as it is a modern take on the 1990 Don Henley hit\u2014which The Immediate Family\u2019s Danny Kortchmar co-wrote with Henley and Jai Winding for inclusion on Henley\u2019s <em>The End of the Innocence<\/em> album [1989]. Postell adds, \u201cBeing in this band offers many highlights for me, but none greater than the opportunity to sing this phenomenal song, co-written by Don Henley and our own Danny \u2018Kootch\u2019 Kortchmar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York Minute\u201d is a track from The Immediate Family\u2019s new EP <em>Slippin\u2019 and Slidin\u2019<\/em>. It has been garnering critical acclaim and debuted at #6 on the Billboard Blues Chart. This band formed two years ago and has been performing live, having released new music in Japan, Asia and the United States. Quarto Valley Records signed The Immediate Family to a multi-album deal and, along with more music coming early next year, a Denny Tedesco documentary about their iconic careers is also in the queue for release in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Immediate Family is a super group of seasoned professional musicians who write songs that continue to move us, play instruments at the highest level and remind us that good music remains an integral part of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>We talked with Danny Kortchmar, one of the songwriters of \u201cNew York Minute\u201d about his approach to songwriting, how good songs stand the test of time and how working for 50 years with guys he\u2019s made hits continues to help them stay creative.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20069\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20069\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20069\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-03-Photo-credit-Erik-Jay-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-03-Photo-credit-Erik-Jay-1.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-03-Photo-credit-Erik-Jay-1-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Erik Jay<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><strong>DANNY KORTCHMAR interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>with\u00a0<em>M Music &amp; Musicians<\/em>\u00a0magazine publisher, Merlin David<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How did the idea of \u201cNew York Minute\u201d come to you and Don Henley?<\/strong><br \/>\nHenley said\u2014I have this idea for a song called \u201cNew York Minute.\u201d That\u2019s all he had\u2014the title. I was fooling around on the keyboard and came up with the chord changes that you hear on the tune. I thought this could be it\u2014it just had the mood. I played it for Henley and he said\u2014that\u2019s it. So we started working on it right away. It needed a bridge, so we brought Jai Winding in and he helped us come up with the bridge. At that point, we started recording it. It was piano based\u2014sounded almost like a jazz standard. There\u2019s a harmon mute trumpet solo, which helped with the mood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you create your own version of this classic song?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen the band recorded this version, we needed to translate it to make it into a rock \u2019n\u2019 roll ballad\u2014with all guitars. I think there was only one guitar on the Henley record. We played it with guitars to get the essence of Henley\u2019s recording with keyboards. Waddy came up with his part. He\u2019s chunking away down below, which is great. Postell is a very flexible player and he does his thing. Away we went. We turned it into our version of \u201cNew York Minute.\u201d All three guitarists grew up in New York City, so that\u2019s a nice connection there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re known as a guitarist, but you wrote this song on a keyboard?<\/strong><br \/>\nBack in the day, when I was working with Don Henley, we got all the synths tracked. One of the great things about working with Henley was whenever a new piece of gear came out, he\u2019d turn to his guy and say\u2014get us one. This was the early 80s and there was a lot of development with synthesizers and drum machines. We had one of the first drum machines. We had the first Yamaha DX7\u2014at least certainly in L.A. I would take it home and groove with it. I did a lot on keyboards because these synthesizers were turning us on. So, I did some writing on keyboards with Don. I fell in love with all the sounds, like everyone in the 80s. All the writing I do now is on guitar.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20068\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20068\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20068\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-02-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-02-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-02-Photo-credit-Jeff-Fasano-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Jeff Fasano<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><strong><em>The Immediate Family is a super group of seasoned professional musicians who write songs that continue to move us, play instruments at the highest level and remind us that good music remains an integral part of our lives.<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>How did you and Henley work together to co-produce <em>The End of the Innocence<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Henley and I basically agree on how to approach something. That\u2019s why we were able to work together on three of his solo albums. We had the same taste. Mostly, he would write to tracks I\u2019d bring in. I\u2019d play him something and he\u2019d say\u2014I can write to that. We\u2019d start recording the song even before the lyrics were written. If he knew he could write to it and he knew he got the key right, then he\u2019d come up with something\u2014and he always did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russ\u2019 \u201cbox kit\u201d on this song gives it a unique sound and feeling. How do you choose who plays specific instruments?<\/strong><br \/>\nOn my tunes, sometimes I have definite ideas. But we\u2019ve been playing together for so long that we just trust each other\u2019s instincts. I\u2019ve been playing with Russ and Lee for 50 years and with Waddy only 45 years. We know each other so well that there really isn\u2019t a lot of conversation. We all just <em>know<\/em> what to do. We just get into it and start going. Everyone knows what to do and they find their place. Leland comes up with genius level parts and he always did\u2014even back in the day. He\u2019s incredibly musical and very smart. He comes up with very musical and terrific parts. He also has the greatest sound you\u2019ve ever heard. His sound on bass is phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You sound very proud of this new version.<\/strong><br \/>\nI love this song and I love the lyrics Henley wrote for it. It\u2019s absolutely brilliant. I\u2019m very glad that we\u2019re still doing the song in this band. It\u2019s great. And I love the way Postell sings it. He has that tenor that sounds perfect on this song.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20067\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20067\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20067\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-01-Photo-credit-Rob-Shanahan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-01-Photo-credit-Rob-Shanahan.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-01-Photo-credit-Rob-Shanahan-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Rob Shanahan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cNew York Minute\u201d song credits:<\/strong><br \/>\nProduced by: \u00a0The Immediate Family<br \/>\nEngineered &amp; Recorded in Quarantine by: \u00a0The Immediate Family<br \/>\nMixed by: \u00a0Steve Postell &amp; Waddy Wachtel<br \/>\nMastered by: \u00a0Steve Addax<br \/>\nPublished by: \u00a0Dobbs Music (ASCAP), WC Music Corp (ASCAP), Woody Creek Music (GMRO)<br \/>\nWriters: Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, Jai Winding<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where can new fans get more info and stay updated?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.immediatefamilyband.com\/\">https:\/\/www.immediatefamilyband.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheImmedFamily\">www.Facebook.com\/TheImmedFamily<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theimmedfamily\">www.Instagram.com\/theimmedfamily<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/TheImmedFamily\">www.Twitter.com\/TheImmedFamily<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/quartovalleyrecords\">www.Instagram.com\/quartovalleyrecords<\/a><br \/>\nwww.Instagram.com\/shanahanphoto<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jefffasanophoto\">www.Instagram.com\/jefffasanophoto<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/erikjayphotographer\">www.Instagram.com\/erikjayphotographer<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20070\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20070\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20070\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-04-Photo-credit-Erik-Jay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-04-Photo-credit-Erik-Jay.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The-Immediate-Family-04-Photo-credit-Erik-Jay-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Erik Jay<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Premiere &amp; Web-Exclusive Interview Artist:\u00a0 THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY Video:\u00a0 \u201cNew York Minute\u201d \ufeff ULTIMATE DREAM TEAM, THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY, RELEASES ICONIC \u201cNEW YORK MINUTE\u201d The Immediate Family is an ultimate dream team of musicians. 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