Dec 3, 2019
John Leventhal is a master of tastefulness,
over decades as a producer, guitarist and songwriter with everyone
from Shawn Colvin to Marc Cohn to
William Bell and his wife Rosanne
Cash. Today he welcomes me to his home studio in New York
to talk about Ry Cooder’s 70s classic ‘Paradise
and Lunch’.
We delve into Ry’s genius as an arranger and reinterpreter of
songs, his influence as a musician, how the album puts songs first
over guitar flexing, how Ry has influenced John’s playing and
production and what it was like for John and his wife Rosanne to
collaborate with Ry on new arrangements of Johnny
Cash songs.