R.I.P. Willie Mitchell
Legendary Hi Records producer and musician passed away this morning after suffering a cardiac arrest a few weeks prior. It’s hard to imagine RZA’s career without this guy.
Legendary Hi Records producer and musician passed away this morning after suffering a cardiac arrest a few weeks prior. It’s hard to imagine RZA’s career without this guy.
Tumblin' Erb
January 5th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
RIP. What a sound..
January 5th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
HECKA. LAME.
oh why oh why oh why, its always the good ones that hafta die.
pimp c said it best. ‘if these rnb niggas dont start making real music, the rap niggas wont have nothing to sample’
January 5th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
people that say hecka are under 18 and from the bay cuz theyre mom wont let them say “hella” haha
January 5th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
patna my mom says hecka
January 5th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
that really is too bad, the world has lost one of the greats
January 5th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
R.I.P.
January 5th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Al Green is great, Ann Peebles was great, O.V. Wright was great, but I honestly believe that Willie Mitchell (and Duck Dunn and Tennie Hodges) were as responsible for those records becoming hits as the singers were. To take nothing away from the live bands that toured with Green and Peebles, the live versions of those songs have NOTHING on the studio versions. That big fat snare and the prominence of the church organ – I never really thought about it, but Pimp C probably had a few Hi records in his collection next to all the Meters stuff.
January 5th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
THIS BLUNT IS FOR WILLIE!
January 5th, 2010 at 6:39 pm
I might even go so far to say that Mitchell was the first super producer.
January 6th, 2010 at 12:22 am
and another bowl-o-bud right hereuh for the man!
bless!
January 6th, 2010 at 2:58 am
When you shouted
Out your pain out in the rain
January 6th, 2010 at 6:26 am
Dude had an unmistakeable sound which was instantly recognisable, and i guess that’s probably the highest compliment you can pay a producer.
I can’t imagine any of those Al Green records produced by anyone else. Shit, is there another producer who could’ve captured a song like Simply Beautiful the way Willie did?
R.I.P.
January 6th, 2010 at 6:29 am
“I might even go so far to say that Mitchell was the first super producer.”
What about Phil Spector?
January 6th, 2010 at 8:13 am
The Lasting Tribute website in the UK has updated its memorial pages to include Willie Mitchell.
http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/mitchell/3221882
It’s a respectful memorial to the man and his work and somewhere to pay tribute to the family’s fortitude at this difficult time.
And they monitor EVERY comment so that nothing offensive or inappropriate is published.
January 6th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
“What about Phil Spector?”
Yeah true. First Black Superproducer then? Or First Superproducer That Wasn’t Also a Murder?
January 6th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
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January 7th, 2010 at 4:38 am
Lol @”1st supa producer who isn’t a murderer…” Lol Tru dat… RIP OG
January 7th, 2010 at 5:11 am
Just a few weeks ago I was thinking about how that Ann Peebles OG version of “Rain” sounds a lot less dated, a lot more “future” than Tina Turners 80s version (which is actually kinda underrated nevertheless) or Missy and Timbos take on it. R.I.P.
January 7th, 2010 at 6:51 am
R.I.P. to my favorite super producer of the sixties and seventies.
January 7th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
for my money, “you ought to be with me” is the best song ever
January 7th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
(unrelated) That new G-Dep is Fire!
January 8th, 2010 at 6:25 pm
R.I.P, he was great producer.
January 14th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
RIP!
at 187 Prod we just paid our own little tribute to Poppa Mitchell and Teddy P:
http://www.187prod.com/R-I-P-Willie-Mitchell-et-Teddy.html
January 18th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
2 records that would have very literally been impossible without him, http://twankleandglisten.blogspot.com/2008/07/m-team-for-deposit-only-1991-waylo.html, http://twankleandglisten.blogspot.com/2008/04/complete-big-bang.html