Dave Stewart

[Miguel]

I put together the post below before learning satchvai had sent Dave Stewart a link to "Haley's NOLA performance with Irvin Mayfield because he puts together jam sessions with great young artist like Orianthi, Candy Dulfer, etc."

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ORIGINAL POST (contains info on Dave Stewart):

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Possibly album related:

(Dave Stewart and Annie Lenox) formed a new musical project named Eurythmics, and went on to be one of the most successful pop-rock duos of all time...In May 2011 it was announced that Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones had formed a new supergroup called Super Heavy which includes Dave Stewart, Joss Stone, Damian Marley, and A.R. Rahman.

Currently featured on his website:



And this, was Haley singing a song he wrote?

Meeting with Dave Stewart at his Hollywood dream factor is a dizzying experience, not unlike what one imagines visiting Warhol’s factory was like in the day, minus the zombies and cocaine. There’s a whole lot of people in a unified space doing a whole lot of art all the time. To Dave, it’s more Wonka than Warhol, “except instead of candy we make ideas.”

A lot of ideas. The Dave engine, which sprawls over two stories above Hollywood & Vine, goes 24-7, sparking always in many directions at once...Dave’s staff is forever editing and mixing and working away to his instructions, though remarkably agile when it comes to showing a visitor a film of Dave and Shakira dancing in a barn, or soloing Stevie Wonder’s miraculous harmonica solo on The Eurythmics’ “Here Comes The Rain Again.”

He’s the great collaborator. Most famous of course for the Eurythmics, his collaboration with Annie Lennox, his genius is for humbly standing behind the singer – whether it’s Annie or Mick or Tom Petty (they concocted “Don’t Come Around Here No More”) or any of the other stars with whom he’s written songs (such as Bono, Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Stevie Nicks and Sinead O’Connor), and making them shine.

...When asked about his haunting duet with Colbie Callait, “Bulletproof Vest,” he says, “I like melancholia, especially in a girl’s voice. I like raw blues soul power or melancholy. And usually the best singers can do both. Like Etta James – “And Annie Lennox,” I interject. “Well, yeah,” he agrees. “That was like our whole thing, this melancholy thing that suddenly went very powerful.”

http://www.americansongwriter.com/2012/0...e-stewart/