Chips Moman

I'm, I'm, I'm all right with that.

So, [laughs] uh, um, our man Chips Moman was back as producer, so he's back at the helm.

Um, like w- it was mentioned, this was a Columbia homecoming for Cash of sorts.

Um, we mentioned in the previous episode, he was dropped in between [laughs] his Highwaymen album, and this would be the last Columbia record for Cash.

... to that kind of pop rock-y-

And I think that Rolling Stone review that you read, which I wasn't aware of, but it mentioned sort of the canned, uh, musical production style, I, I think this, that style was going out.

Uh, so the Chips Moman production, th- what he brought to the table was on its way out.

Um, and so that kind of like clinical, uh, solo guitar that shows up in there, I think that's-

And then, uh, of course it's, it, it's, uh, you know it immediately if you're a Willie Nelson fan, his forever harmonica player, Mickey Raphael is on the record and you can hear that.

Uh, it was produced by Chips Moman.

I believe I've got that pronounced correctly.

Uh, I pulled up some other albums.

Now, if you watch, if you remember the movie The Commitments, uh, they depict and discuss this, uh, song, and that's set in Ireland.

Well, the song was written by a guy named Dan Penn and Chips Moman.

Decades later, on an album called Vanthology, Dan Penn is gonna take a track that Van Morrison has, had written in homage to Dark End of the Street, a track from him called Bright Side of the Road, and he's gonna cover that song.

Yeah.