Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater
It Was a Production Team!
RECEIVED Thu., Feb. 1, 2007
Dear Editor,
Re: Run Out of Darkness, “Texas Platters,” [Music], Jan. 26: I don't want to say too much more about this, but the main thrust of your reviewer's venom was that my album is "self-produced," therefore I don't know what I'm doing. That part may be true, but as clearly stated in the liner notes, the album was a team production, with the excellent contributions of John Harvey and Mary Podio – as well as the great musicians who played on it. John and Mary work out of Top Hat Recording, and their joint and several credits include work with as diverse and significant artists and bands as Honky, Jon Dee Graham, Scrappy Jud Newcomb's new album, Talking Heads, and many others. A lot of good people were slagged along with me in this slipshod attack, by someone who apparently can't even be bothered to get his facts straight. Thanks for the opportunity to correct these specific oversights.
Re: Run Out of Darkness, “Texas Platters,” [Music], Jan. 26: I don't want to say too much more about this, but the main thrust of your reviewer's venom was that my album is "self-produced," therefore I don't know what I'm doing. That part may be true, but as clearly stated in the liner notes, the album was a team production, with the excellent contributions of John Harvey and Mary Podio – as well as the great musicians who played on it. John and Mary work out of Top Hat Recording, and their joint and several credits include work with as diverse and significant artists and bands as Honky, Jon Dee Graham, Scrappy Jud Newcomb's new album, Talking Heads, and many others. A lot of good people were slagged along with me in this slipshod attack, by someone who apparently can't even be bothered to get his facts straight. Thanks for the opportunity to correct these specific oversights.
Mandy Mercier
