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Trott grew up in the San Francisco/Bay Area, where he originally wanted to become a set designer for theater productions. He also talked about the special writing chemistry he has with Crow, and how they worked together on her new Wildflower CD.
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In a new interview, Trott discussed the evolution of his music career, from his start as a touring musician and band member, to co-writing with Crow, then later handling production duties with her, plus producing & writing for other projects. In addition, he is a recording artist, who released his solo CD Dig Up The Astroturf in 2001. Also, Trott is an in-demand writer and producer who works on many other projects, and he is a respected guitarist who was a member of popular rock bands Wire Train and World Party.
Trott has co-written an amazing 22 songs which have been released on Crow’s top-selling albums, starting in 1996 with Sheryl Crow (7 cuts), The Globe Sessions (4 cuts), C’mon C’mon (4 cuts) and Wildflower (7 cuts). Songwriter/producer/artist Jeff Trott is not as well known as his main writing partner, multi-Grammy winning artist Sheryl Crow, but together they have written such memorable hits as ‘Every Day Is A Winding Road,’ ‘If It Makes You Happy,’ ‘Soak Up The Sun,’ ‘My Favorite Mistake’ and ‘A Change Would Do You Good.’ They have also teamed up to write seven songs for Crow’s latest album Wildflower, including her new hit single ‘Good Is Good.’ In addition, Trott co-produces many of the cuts with Crow on her albums. The trek is slated to close in mid-July.Jeff Trott with Sheryl Crow and Michelle Branch. The Thorns will take flight as opening act for the Jayhawks beginning June 23. There was also kind of an unspoken thing where, whoever’s day it was, kind of got the final word.”ĭroge says, “I think knowing that we really wanted to create something that was outside of all of us made it so that nobody would get too hung up on their own trip.” One day would be Shawn’s day, or Pete’s day, or my day. Sweet says that working in that fashion kept things new. To keep things fresh, each morning, the three avoided bringing in song ideas that were nearly complete. (Droge and Mullins penned one Thorns song, “No Blue Sky,” prior to Sweet’s arrival.) The group crystallized with “I Can’t Remember,” the first song written together by the three artists. “The harmonies kind of gave us that, and we helped to sort of ensure that by trying to really write all the songs together.” “More interesting to me was something completely unlike what I would do on my own or what they would do on their own,” he says. Sweet says he quickly emphasized the three-part harmony approach. His high vocals meshed seamlessly with Mullins’ low, whiskey-tinged voice and Droge’s Tom Petty-esque singing. After a couple of days, the initially skeptical artist wedged his way firmly into the mix. He had joked with Carter about starting a modern version of famed ’60s guy/girl vocal quartet the Mamas & the Papas. Like the others, Sweet was interested in trying something new in his career. He was encouraged to listen to a few songs and consider writing with them.
The Thorns sprouted about 13 months ago, when Sweet, at the suggestion of manager Russell Carter (who is also Mullins’ manager), joined Droge and Mullins in a Los Angeles studio. VH1 and CMT, meanwhile, are airing the song’s videoclip. 15 on the Triple-A chart published by Billboard’s sister publication Airplay Monitor. The band’s unusual sound has found favor with video and triple-A programmers.
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I guess it’s because all the boy bands were doing harmonies and stuff, so maybe this wasn’t cool to do for the last few years anyway.”īe certain, the Thorns’ update on mid-’70s Southern California acoustic pop owes more to CSN and the Beach Boys than to the wave of boy-band pop that has dominated the charts in recent years. “I mean, there’s probably about 10 groups sittin’ around going, ‘We f***in’ did this!’ But it doesn’t immediately come to mind. Yet the brand of harmony- and acoustic-guitar-based rock they play has, surprisingly, been virtually absent from the pop landscape for more than a decade. Sure, in the grand scheme of things, what the three singer/songwriters created isn’t as notable as, say, the early, generation-defining work of Crosby, Stills, & Nash (CSN), a group that the Thorns immediately recall.
In joining together to form the Thorns - a group focused entirely on three-part harmonies - Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge, and Shawn Mullins do not seem to have created anything terribly groundbreaking.īut as one listens to the trio sing in unison on the 13 songs that make up its self-titled debut, issued May 20 via Aware/Columbia, it starts to seem otherwise.