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She credits her producers, Jim Wilson and Billy Cowsill for doing a “terrific” job.
“I would say Billy’s is a musical genius,” the diminutive, curly-haired Mayo said Thursday during a preview of the album at Bullfrog Studios where it was recorded. “He and Jim put a lot of work into this album.”
Cowsill wrote three tunes for the album: Heartachin’ Honky Tonkin’ Sing-a-long, The Embers Keep Burnin’ and Stranger In My Home, which features a Mayo-Cowsill duet.
It’s interesting to note that both Wilson and Cowsill spent some time in Texas, considered to be the new Nashville of country music. In fact, Cowsill linked up with a Joe Ely, part of the new wave of country music in America, in Greenwich Village in the mid-70s.
Cowsill and Ely played for about half a year together in New York, “playing for beer and sandwiches,” recalls Cowsill. “He was the only other guy I met who knew Silver Wings by Merle Haggard.”
The pair soon moved on to Lubbock, Texas, where they played in “a few sawdust joints” for a year before Cowsill headed north, eventually settling in Vancouver.
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