“I don’t want this to be an obsequious-fest here, but I’m telling you, playing with two icons, I’m telling you, usually ‘Oh, I’m playing with this icon or whatever,’ that means they can’t play anymore. It has a lot more in common with the music that you may like than you think.” “Classical music doesn’t have to be terrifying. But on a more macro level, both Bobby and I agree that while we are fans of classical music, it needs to bust out of some of the restrictions that it’s had, lo, these many years,” said Mills. “I thought, ‘Okay, well, that is certainly a challenge.’ There was a way to do something after REM’s disbandment that would certainly stretch any capabilities I may have had. I wanted to play another premiere of a great American composer, and so I went to Mike.” “I’ve been playing a lot of the standard – I call them the ‘dead white European male composers’ – I still love those guys, and…. And while certainly, I’ve learned so much from Mike and his musicianship and his work ethic and his fans, I think I had to have a glass of wine before I got the nerve up to ask him to do this,” said McDuffie. “It helps me connect to a different culture, and we need to stay curious. Mills and McDuffie’s “Concerto for Violin, Rock Band and String Orchestra”: And I thought to myself if I could ever be in a band, not necessarily like that, but if I could ever be in a band that could move people the way that that moved me, that would be a pretty good goal to have. Billy Preston was playing Hammond B3 at the time… and I just walked away, just profoundly affected by it. It was the Raelettes it was Fathead Newman on saxophone. “Of course, Ray was amazing, but it wasn’t just Ray.
“It was when I was probably thirteen years old… and I’d seen a few live things, but I’d never seen anything like Ray Charles,” said Leavell. And so there’s so much to draw on, for musicians to be inspired by so many different aspects of life.” It’s just something about the state, the fact that we go from swamp to mountain, to beach, to pine barrens it’s an incredibly diverse state with an incredible amount of history. “Why so many great musicians is really hard to say. Not just as a vehicle for words, but with the melodies and the music itself, you can create a mood and an environment and tell a story,” said Mills. “The South has always been known for storytelling, and music is one of the great ways that you can tell a story.
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