043 - Greg Morrow :: Deserving To Play On a Nashville Studio Floor - The Rich Redmond Show Ep 43
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Greg Morrow is an American touring and recording drummer based in Nashville. Morrow was born in Ripley, Tennessee and raised in Memphis. At age 11, Morrow and his band performed on a local TV show, and he participated in his first recording session.
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In the 1980s, Morrow toured and recorded with the Christian rock ensemble DeGarmo and Key, as well as Amy Grant.
Morrow moved from Memphis in 1996 after encouragement from Norbert Putnam and fellow drummer Chad Cromwell. Since then, Morrow has recorded with the “Who’s Who” of the music business: Deana Carter, The Dixie Chicks, Blake Shelton, Joe Bonamassa, Billy Gibbons, Bob Seger, Luke Bryan, Steve Earle and many others.
In 2008 and 2015, Morrow won the Academy of Country Music Studio Recording Award for “Drummer of the Year”. Morrow recently finished a tour with American rock icon Bob Seger.
A few things that came up:
-Cutting Little Richard records
-Old time radio shows
-"Right now" records
-The feel of Deanna Carter's "Strawberry Wine"
-Finding what's right for a drumhead
-Working with Amy Grant and Trisha Yearwood
-Playing with Bob Segar
-Using tracks and laptops
-It's amazing how much you're not really hearing
-Frugality
-Greg's holy grail of snare drums
-Vintage drums
-Pictures of Lilly Keith Moon kit would be Greg's dream kit
-Dream kits
-The virtue of "Great Day to be Alive"
-If you're on a Nashville studio floor, you deserve to be there and have to work to stay there.
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