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Guy Sebastian’s Memphis Diary: Week Five

It’s Wednesday morning and I’m a little tired.

I finished tracking the album last night and afterwards my manager, Titus, and I did the “car listening test”: we drove all over Memphis singing along to all these great Memphis songs in disbelief that this had all come together.

I expressed what my dream way of recording this album would be and left it up in the air as just that — a dream, with the realisation that, of course, I couldn’t pull off getting the highly sought-after soul musicians that played on the actual track. Let alone to be in Memphis where the music was born. Or record in studios where these songs were recorded. And in the same style – cut live with the whole band straight to analogue tape.

We drove around for hours,past the famous Beale St, listening to the tracks thinking, how did we pull this off!

Read Week Five of Guy’s Memphis Diary.

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Guy Sebastian Is Apparently Still in Memphis

It’s already Sunday in Australia, which means only one thing, mates: Guy Sebastian’s Memphis Diary is online!

Here’s a sample of this week’s riveting action: “We would begin a session with everyone relaxing having a cup of coffee and telling stories about touring, and stuff about artists they have worked with like Elvis, Otis Redding, The Beatles etc etc..

“You know, just your average session musos!! This would sometimes take an hour and then I would show them which song I wanted to record and after listening to any changes I had we would all go into the live room.

“Everyone would hop on their instrument I’d hop in the vocal booth and we would just hit record without a rehearsal and everyone would nail it nearly every time. Then it’s back to coffee and stories for another hour!”

If you’d like more of this magic, go to the Sunday Telegraph website.

By the way, a Flyer music writer attempted to interview Guy this week, but he wasn’t interested. To which we say, Dude, you need to get out of the studio. There’s more to Memphis than coffee, geezers, and recycled Elvis stories.