Ben Wendel Producer of Radio Songs
Ben Wendel Producer of Radio Songs by Darryl Holter
17 May 2014
Darryl Holter’s forthcoming new album is called Radio Songs. The album features songs written by Woody Guthrie when Guthrie hosted a daily radio show on KFVD in Los Angeles from 1937 to 1939.
Darryl Holter:
One big reason why I enjoy recording is that I get to hear how my songs can grow and expand when great musicians bring their skills to the fore. We put together a superb crew for the upcoming “Radio Songs” album.
It starts with my remarkable producer, Ben Wendel, the twice Grammy-nominated saxophone artist, composer, and more recently conductor who was described by LA Weekly as “perhaps the best and most well-known saxophonist consistently active on both coasts”. Ben was with me when we did our first album in 2008. When Ben is in LA, and not touring worldwide with artists such as Tigran Hamasyan, Snoop Dogg, or Prince, he helps me smooth out the arrangements to my songs. We talk about the feel of the song, and consider what instrumentation might work best. When it’s time to record, Ben lines up the best musicians we can find, juggles everyone’s schedule, manages the sessions, and makes sure all the musicians get paid.
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Darryl Holter grew up playing the guitar and singing country and rock and roll songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His current brand of Americana music draws from country, blues and folk traditions and often tells stories about people, places and events.
Besides his music, Holter has worked as an academic, a labor leader, an urban revitalization planner, and an entrepreneur. Darryl Holter is also a historian who has written on Woody Guthrie and a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Darryl Holter grew up playing the guitar and singing country and rock and roll songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His current brand of Americana music draws from country, blues and folk traditions and often tells stories about people, places and events.