Booker T. Jones: “I couldn’t have made this record without Sibelius”

Courtesy: A.V. Club

The Onion’s A.V. Club today has an interview with Stax legend Booker T. Jones, whose new album Potato Hole has just been released. Jones has forged a successful career since the 1960s, and in common with many artists, he has come to rely on 21st century technologies, including Sibelius.

Here’s an excerpt:

AVC: What was the collaboration like? Did you direct them on what to do, or did they come in with their own ideas?

BT: I made demos of all the songs. I started writing in March, writing all the songs on guitar. I went down there with songs on Sibelius. And I dumped the songs from Sibelius onto a MusicPad Pro, which I can operate with a footswitch, and I directed them from my chart, from a MusicPad Pro.

AVC: Is it easier now, with all this technology at your disposal?

BT: I couldn’t have made this record without the MusicPad Pro and Sibelius because like I said, I started writing the songs in March and we didn’t record ’til September. I hate to think about what I would have forgotten between March and September. Because I had all the music written out, I could remember everything. I just followed my own charts. The technology’s really helped me.

Read the whole article here.

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