I recently spoke with producer William Garrett. William is probably best known for his work as lead producer of Spotify Singles, where artists re-recorded one of their original songs alongside a cover of their choice. Over the course of this project, he recorded an amazing array of recording artists. The list is wild. I’ll just shout out some of my favorites because it would be too lengthy to list all 750 of them:
Yo La Tengo, Jack White, Idles, The Hives, Orville Peck, Toots and the Maytals, Yo-Yo Ma, Muse, Elton John, Lily Allen, Florence + The Machine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem—you get the idea. Before all that, he was roaming around studios in NYC and Boston working with Sugar Hill Gang, Afika Baambaatta, and multiple albums with John Cale. Recently, he worked with Jon Batiste on the soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night and the Beethoven Blues album.
He just completed an album with the Shedrick Mitchell Trio and is doing a song with Amber Rubarth, Sara Bareilles, and Celisse. He just started a new album with Bandits on the Run, recording in a house in the Catskills and building a studio there from scratch. We talk about ALL of this. Tune in!
Radar features discussions with artists and industry leaders who are creators and devotees of music and is produced by Dylan Hundley and The Vinyl District. Dylan Hundley is an artist and performer, and the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis and all things at Darling Black. She co-curates and hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the iconic New York film Metropolitan.
