Legendary sidemen Danny Kortchmar, Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar, and Russ Kunkel unveil new band the Immediate Family with a Zoom-filmed video
The concept of the Immediate Family emerged when Kortchmar was approached by a Japanese label to make an album of his songs old and new. Since his fellow session veterans were all in town, Kortchmar recruited them as his band. But as he says, “While we were recording, it was obvious that we should keep it going, so we made it a band at that point. It just all fell together.”
As “Cruel Twist” shows, the Immediate Family doesn’t revel in the mellow balladeering associated with many of the musicians they once supported. Ever since at least 1979, when most of them backed James Taylor on his unusually raucous“That was an incredible tour,” Kortchmar recalls. “It was rocking out a bit more than James usually does. James is a terrific rock & roll and blues singer, but he doesn’t want to do it much.
Speaking of songs, Immediate Family gigs feature the musicians singing and playing tunes they co-wrote, produced and/or played on: “New York Minute” and “Dirty Laundry” , “Somebody’s Baby” , “Lawyers, Guns and Money” and “Werewolves of London” , and “Honey Don’t Leave L.A.” . “By the end of the shows, people who don’t know go, ‘Wow, these cats have done a lot,’” says Kortchmar. “And not just as session guys but as writers and producers. But we don’t want to wave our flag that much.”
Their just-completed album will include a remake of the Zevon-Wachtel co-write “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead,” but will largely focus on new songs they’ve written and a harder sound. “We’ve been doing it a million years,” Kortchmar says. “When you know cats this well, I won’t say it’s effortless, but you find new ways to do things. Waddy and I always find the parts that complement each other. Russ’ drum sound is bigger and badder than it’s ever been.
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