Robert: Despite the multiple directions your life has taken, Google simply lists you as ‘American Singer’. Is that the way you prefer to be identified?īebe: It’s the only way to identify me. I suppose you could call me a ‘Jill Of All Trades’, but the one thing that has really been my soul and my core, is my singing. Even when I went to Catholic boarding school, I was the token contralto alto in the choir. It was very interesting for people to hear an 11 year old girl who had my voice! It’s taken years for ‘singer’ to be the first thing said about me. Robert: Baring It All: Greetings From Nashbury Park is powered by very personal songs and you’re in great voice while singing them, but the record has some punch as well. I’d imagine you give Jim (Wallerstein, Buell’s producer, guitarist and husband of 16 years) some credit there.īebe: I told Jim, “Honey, are you ready for how much work is going to be thrown at you when people hear the production on this record?” The record sounds like when Rick Rubin produced The Cult’s Electric album.

He just knows how to make each instrument tell their own story. Robert: If a producer is also tackling lead guitar duties, he might be tempted to push his playing to the front of the mix. If he is sleeping with the lead singer, he might feel obligated to turn her vocals up a bit. Jim was doing both.īebe: He is definitely not the type to hog any part of an album for himself. We’ve been together for 18 years, and he’s always in my corner.

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