Sunday, December 3, 2006
Cream Terry Manning
Posted by Edd Hurt on Sun, Dec 3, 2006 at 11:11 AM
I thought I'd mention one of the year's most interesting reissues: Terry Manning's Home Sweet Home, a slice of Memphis madness that originally appeared in 1970 on that city's Enterprise label (a Stax imprint). Manning was instrumental in shaping one of my favorite genres, power pop, as engineer, musician and all-around savant at the Bluff City's famed Ardent Studios; he worked with Alex Chilton on Chilton's first solo record, appears on Big Star's great 1972 #1 Record (that's him singing backup on "When My Baby's Beside Me"), and went on to engineer Led Zeppelin's III. Home Sweet Home features Manning along with Big Star's Chris Bell and Richard Rosebrough, and the outrageously revved-up versions of the Beatles' "Savoy Truffle" and (yep, a Nashville connection) Jack Clement's "Guess Things Happen That Way" are outstanding. A really fine curio, with great sound and real punk attitude. More on the record here.
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Manning runs Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas, and is truly one of the foremost pioneers in record production. He's also a highly regarded photographer; he hung with William Eggleston, the Memphis photographer, back in the '70s. Home Sweet Home is a record that is easily thirty years ahead of its time, not to mention one of the most wickedly funny records I've heard in a while. (The versions of the Beatles' "I Wanna Be Your Man" and "The One After 909" are just hilarious, what the English call "taking the piss"...)
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