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Lone Justice, Deferred: Maria McKee, Marvin Etzioni and Ryan Hedgecock on Combining Vintage and Fresh Recordings for the Band’s First ‘New’ Album in 38 Years
The three original members of Lone Justice, including Maria McKee, discuss combining unheard tapes and fresh overdubs for a hybrid archival/new album.
But what if some divine hand had pulled a cloak over the music industry’s eyes, and Lone Justice had developed on its own timeline as a heavily country-influenced indie band, unencumbered by attention or expectations? But most of the source material is vintage tapes that were laid down in the early ’90s by McKee and fellow members Marvin Etzioni and Don Heffington when they were about to go out on one of her solo tours, in spontaneous living-room sessions that were very much in the earliest, spunkiest spirit of early-’80s Lone Justice. McKee: Benmont and I used to do that version at the Highland Grounds in Hollywood back in the early ‘90s, and then we incorporated it into the live show when I was touring “Sin to Get Saved.” We did it when they opened the Viper Room, and I remember because Jim Jarmusch was there.
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