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Danny Kortchmar
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The Night
Owl's page: contains
a detailed but incomplete discography until 1999.
“Jo
Mama”, Zigzag # 21, 1971
“Danny
Kootch”, Melody Maker, July 24th 1971
“Danny
Kortchmar: Innuendo”, The Boston Globe,
by Ernie Welch, March 27, 1980
“Danny
Kortchmar”, Rolling Stone #317 May 15, 1980
“Don
Henley and Danny Kortchmar”
Musician Interview by Mitchell Glazer 1982
“Danny
Kortchmar”, Record Magazine (Folded Newspaper
Format) - Pat Benatar Cover, March 1983, Vol 2, No 5.
“Danny
Kortchmar In Defense of Rhythm Guitar”, Guitar
Player Magazine, May
1983.
Danny
Kortchmar-"It's much easier to play a screamer
solo over a heavy groove than it is to make that groove." The sideman on
hits by James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne, and Linda Ronstadt is also active as a producer, songwriter, and solo
artist. Alongside his biography, we present his views on attitude, getting
hired, and the unsung art of rhythm guitar.
“Don
Henley & Danny Kortchmar”, Musician, July
1983
“Don Henley: Beauty
And The Beast- Building The Perfect Album”,
Musician, by Timothy White, ca. 1985
“Don
Henley's Sidekick Produces the Perfect Beat”
Music/Sound Output August, 1985
“Sound
Advice from 10 Top Producers: Eddie Kramer / Mack / Tom Werman
/ Daniel Rey / Butch Vig /
Brian Foraker / Bob Rock / Don Gehman
/ Leif Mases / Danny Kortchmar”,
Guitar Player Distortion, October 1992, issue #274
“Guitarist
Tunes Success As Producer”, The Plain
Dealer, May 13, 1994.
”In
Westport, Slo Leak Can Afford To Do Things At Its Own Pace”, The
“Slo Leak”, Down Beat, by Frank-John
Hadley, Jan. 1, 1997.
“Blues,
Rock Mix On Album: Slo Leak”, The
”In
“Producer Sees the
Future and It Is Funky”, The
“Slo Leak”, Il Mucchio Selvaggio # 374, November 24, 1999 (italian)
“Slo Leak delivers delta blues with a 90's style” by
Brad Francis Lifestyle Stringer Fall 1999
“Veterans
Of Rock Play It Live And Local”,
“Interview
with Danny Kortchmar”, Vintage Guitar Magazine, Dec. 2000
“Danny
Kortchmar Reflects On Star-Filled Sessions. Jams.”,
by Christopher Walsh, Billboard, July 7, 2001.
“Slo
Leak When The Clock Strikes Twelve”, by
Darin Scott, TuneUp Magazine Vol. 6 No. 2, February
2002
“Danny Kortchmar:
A Music History” by Samantha Murray, May 2003
“Hanson’s collaborators:
Danny Kortchmar” by Debra, 2003
“It’s Midnight
Eleven at Pilot Recording”, by Heather
Johnson, Mix, March 1, 2005
“Greg Ladanyi: Jackson Browne, Don Henley & The SoCal Sound”, Sound on Sound, May 2005.
“Campbell
American Precix”, by Michael Ross, Guitar One, April 2006
“Super
Unknown”, by Michael Ross, Guitar
One, April 2006
“One
Half of a Supergroup' No More”, Rolling Stone
#203 by Cameron Crowe - January 1, 1976, a vintage interview in the Crosby
& Nash era
“Peter
Asher Presents Platinum Diggers Of '77 Starring James Taylor & Linda Ronstadt PART 1 – PART 2”
by Ben Fong-Torres, Rolling Stone, December 29, 1977, Peter Asher explains Danny
Kortchmar’s contribution in “J.T.” album by James
Taylor
“Thunderbirds
roll dice on their Private debut”, Billboard; 7/1/1995; by Chris Morris
“Kim Wilson of the
Fabulous Thunderbirds in AOL Blues Chat” Advertisement”, October 16, 1995,
by Beverly Howell, a “Roll of the Dice” review where Danny “achieves honorary
lifetime T-Bird member status”
“Last Man
Standing”, Houston Press, Dec. 25, 1997, by Hobart Rowland, about the
Wilson, Jordan and Kortchmar collaboration.
“NY
Metro Report”, Mix Magazine, Dec. 2000, by Gary Eskow,
in occasion of the 20th birthday of the Acme Recording Studios, Kootch talks about his recent work with Boz
Scaggs.
“Interview with Boz Scaggs on Dig”, from Boz Scaggs Lyrics Site, 2001.
Boz talks about the collaboration with Danny Kortchmar.
Waddy Watchel Interview
at Penguin, the Fleetwood Mac’s site, where Waddy
recalls the first time he met Kootch.
“Renowned Heartbreakers
Drummer Stan Lynch Becomes Top Songwriter & Producer”, by Jayne Moore
2003, Stan Lynch explains how Danny Kortchmar taught
him the art of songwriting.
“Mystery Books from the Golden
Age of Detective Fiction - Rue Morgue Press: Lucy Cores”, by Tom & Enid Schantz,
April 2004, a very beautiful article on Danny’s mother.
(You can see the previews of some of the pages of the
following books on Amazon).
“Crosby,
Stills & Nash: The Definitive Inside Story of the Supergroup” by Dave
Zimmer & Henry Diltz, with pictures from the
Mighty Jitters’ era and many nice comments by Danny Kortchmar.
Kootch: “… Those tours cooked,
man. That was the first band I was in where I was actually encouraged to turn
up. I remember being on stage and
“Shakey: Neil Young's Biography” by James
McDonough, contains some pages about Danny’s production of “Landing On Water”.
”Neil Young. 1963 – 2003: 40 anni
di rock imbizzarrito”
by Marco Grompi, Editori Riuniti, 2003, collana Momenti Rock, contains some pages about Danny’s production
of “Landing on Water” (in Italian).
“Long Ago and Far Away - James Taylor - His Life and Music” by
Timothy White 2001, with insights from Paul McCartney, Carly
Simon, Sting, Danny Kortchmar, the entire Taylor
family and many other key figures around James Taylor and his music.
“Music
Producers – Conversations with Today’s Top Record Makers”, Mix.
Conversations
with: Walter Afanasieff, Don Dixon, George Duke, Dave
Edmunds, Bruce Fairburn, Roy Halee, Beau Hill, Kevin
Killen, Danny Kortchmar, Krs-One,
Daniel Lanois, Bill Laswell,
Tom Lord-Alge, Jeff Lynne, Brian Malouf,
George Martin & John Burgess, Eddy Offord, Hugh Padgham, John Potoker, Phil Ramone, Rick Rubin, Shel Talmy, Creed Taylor, Don Was and David Was.
“To The Limit: The Untold
Story Of The Eagles” by Marc Eliot 1998, excerpts with the kind permission
of the author.
The
book is unauthorized and contains some inaccuracies. According to
eaglesfans.com, it is one “controversial bio of the band. It focuses heavily on
interviews with Henley and many other key players in the Eagles story.
Rock
Lives by Timothy White: Interviews with stars. Another
interesting book about the Henley-Kortchmar collaboration.
Includes the interview with Don Henley and Danny Kortchmar
that is also featured on Mr. White's radio special.
Some
references are also:
“Bag
of Bones: a Novel” by Stephen King.
It
contains a reference to All She Wants to Do is Dance, the song performed by Don
Henley in “Building the Perfect Beast” 1985, written by Danny Kortchmar.
“All
She Wants to do is Dance," comes on the radio during a picnic, and
Mike thinks, "I was okay until she danced.. after that I was lost."
"Oh God, I love this one, Mattie cried. The Frisbee came to her. She
caught it, dropped it, stepped on it as if it were a hot red spot falling on a
nightclub stage, and began to shake. She put her hands first behind her neck
and then on her hips and then behind her back. She danced standing with the
toes of her sneakers on the Frisbee. She danced without moving. She danced as
they say in that song -- like a wave on the ocean."
“Gateways”
by F. Paul Wilson, Hardcover Edition, on page 45.
“…The
Tuner stopped on a dance station. Jack didn’t dance, the beat was monotonous,
and he’d arrived in the middle of a woman doing a doubletime
version of “Boys of Summer.”. He bailed when a cheesy organ attempted to
duplicate Kootch Kortchmar’s
riffs from the original. What had Don Henley ever done to deserve that?...”
See
also:
Campbell American Guitars: Danny owns
and plays two Campbell American guitars.
James Taylor Online:
many articles and references (and pictures) can be found in this amazing fans
site with the search engine.
Don
Henley Fans: contains lots of articles,
songs and video clips to download.
Eagles Fans: (eaglesfans.com) lots of
references and articles can be found here with the search engine.
Bob’s Page Of Carole King:
contains some nice “Danny Kootch”’s pictures from
early Seventies.
Some
great artists who are very supportive and helpful:
Acknowledgements
Many
thanks to Mr. Kortchmar who is so kind to let me do
this.
My
gratitude goes also to my webmaster Marco
Giunco, who makes all this possible.
Many
thanks to the producer, journalist and die-hard music fan Ernesto De Pascale
for his help and encouragement; to Emma Rogers and Jens Brokvist
for their precious friendship and help.