179: You Made Me Such A Big Star (A Conversation with Those Pretty Wrongs)

What happens when the surviving member of a legendary American power pop band and a Los Angeles musician whose lineage includes two giants of the Great American Songbook, both steeped in Beatles, get together to make music? The result is now two albums deep in a band called Those Pretty Lies. Jody Stephens, formerly of Big Star and Golden Smog is a singer/songwriter/drummer and Luther Russell is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer, formerly of The Freewheelers. Their latest release as Those Pretty Wrongs, Zed For Zulu, has just been released. 

Their insights into making music and what they gleaned from The Beatles makes for a fascinating discussion.  

 

Check out their work (and current tour dates) here:

http://www.thoseprettywrongs.com/

https://lutherrussell.com/

https://www.ardentstudios.com/