{"id":3576,"date":"2011-08-22T00:27:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T07:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2011-08-22T00:27:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T07:27:18","slug":"joss-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/joss-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"JOSS STONE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JOSS STONE<\/h1>\n

How one whirlwind week in Nashville offered her a fresh start<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Joss Stone was in Spain last year, helping a friend repair his boat, when producer and Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart rang with an intriguing proposal: Fly to Nashville and make an album in just a few days. \u201cI thought, \u2018Wow, that sounds like a good idea,\u2019 so I did,\u201d the 24-year-old British soul singer remembers. She told her friend, filmmaker and photographer Paul Conroy, \u201cI\u2019ll be back in six or seven days, I\u2019m going to make an album\u201d\u2014and a week later she indeed returned having completed LP1<\/em>. Stone took a break from baking English muffins and repainting her bathroom to discuss all this and more.<\/p>\n

Did you have some songs ready to go when Dave called?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Actually, I hadn\u2019t any songs. It\u2019s funny how it came together. Sometimes if I\u2019m writing with people\u2014other than Dave\u2014it can take ages. Some take two days on the same song, others a half-hour. I prefer the half-hour thing, but that\u2019s because I\u2019ve got attention problems. I get bored. I think, \u201cIf it\u2019s not right in a day, leave it. Let it be.\u201d It\u2019s good with Dave, because he shares the same method.<\/p>\n

If I say something, he\u2019ll pick up his guitar, say, \u201cThat\u2019s great,\u201d and it\u2019s done. Then he\u2019ll walk into the other room and play it for the other musicians, who are brilliant, so quick.<\/p>\n

How was it working so fast? <\/strong><\/p>\n

There are so many different methods. I took a year to make [2007\u2019s] Introducing Joss Stone<\/em>. But I prefer the quick way, because you capture your first thought, and your first thought is the most honest. When you start to think about it too much, it doesn\u2019t\u00a0end up as good.<\/p>\n

What were the Nashville players like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was a totally different experience for me. They were never late. Ever. That never happens with musicians. Usually I will stay up until 8 in the morning when I\u2019m making a record. I go to the studio around noon or 1, and work until 8 in the morning, and whoever wants to can hang out and work. This was different. Everybody left at a normal time, and I was like, \u201cOh. We\u2019re not going to go till 8?\u201d (laughs<\/em>) It\u2019s a very organized, much better method for somebody who\u00a0has a family and a life.<\/p>\n

How was having creative control?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was nice. I had taken it before, but I\u2019d\u00a0never been given it. I\u2019ve taken it and had fights, like, \u201cI\u2019m doing this. I will make it the way I want to make it,\u201d as on [2009\u2019s]\u00a0Colour Me Free! <\/em>It\u2019s screwed up to have to fight to be you. I did, and I won. But\u00a0I don\u2019t like to fight. I don\u2019t want to fight.\u00a0It\u2019s not about that. It\u2019s about love, the\u00a0opposite of fighting. So it was really cool to\u00a0freely be whatever I needed to be, and I\u00a0didn\u2019t have to watch my p\u2019s and q\u2019s or\u00a0look over my shoulder.<\/p>\n

What did you learn?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now I give myself a certain period of time then go, \u201cRight, what are you feeling? Let\u2019s do it.\u201d And then you send it to the mix.\u00a0When you go way back and listen to what I like\u2014the Supremes, Aretha Franklin, James Brown\u2014they did it in one take. If it was out of tune, it was out of tune and they got better. They captured the moment, they miked everybody, ran the tape and just did it. And you hear what the people heard in the studio that day. I find that special.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>\u2013Eric R. Danton<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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