He had a way of really pulling the truth out of me. No matter how hard or soft the sentiment, you’re direct.īebe: I want to give a lot of credit to our co-writer on this record, Jon Tiven, for teaching me to reach down deep inside myself and not be afraid to say things bluntly. Robert: What stands out about your lyrics on this album is also what stands out about you personally, which is that no matter what hat you wear – interview subject, author, songwriter – you’re incapable of being ambiguous. There’s no one who knows me better, and no one who wants more to see me represented for who I really am.īuell’s ‘Baring It All: Greetings From Nashbury Park’. We’ve been together for 18 years, and he’s always in my corner.
Jim was doing both.īebe: He is definitely not the type to hog any part of an album for himself. If he is sleeping with the lead singer, he might feel obligated to turn her vocals up a bit. Robert: If a producer is also tackling lead guitar duties, he might be tempted to push his playing to the front of the mix.
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He just knows how to make each instrument tell their own story. 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. 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. 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. Even when I went to Catholic boarding school, I was the token contralto alto in the choir. 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. Is that the way you prefer to be identified?īebe: It’s the only way to identify me. Robert: Despite the multiple directions your life has taken, Google simply lists you as ‘American Singer’. Robert Ferraro: It’s not good form to open an interview with a declaration, however…you’ve had quite the life.īebe Buell: My biography is certainly robust, isn’t it? Looking at it on paper could give someone with attention deficit disorder a heart attack. In this conversation Bebe discusses the album, her song for our times, some helpful advice she received from Mick Jagger, the unique challenges of raising a beautiful and talented daughter, and what her relationship with Steven Tyler is like today. She is up to that task again with “Baring It All: Greetings From Nashbury Park”, a vibrant rock record that finds Buell invigorated, and armed with her trademark voice and most deeply personal lyrics to date. The role that Buell has played the most however, is that of Rock ‘n’ Roll singer.
And for many others, she is recognized as a friend, lover, confidante and muse to a who’s who of musical royalty that includes Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, former partners Elvis Costello and Todd Rundgren, and most famously, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, with whom she has a daughter, actress Liv Tyler. For others, she’s the Playboy Playmate who posed as a centerfold in a still popular 1974 pictorial. For some, she’s the glamorous model who burst onto the pages of magazines while still a teenager. Bebe Buell, a charismatic pop culture presence for five decades, represents different things to different people.
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