Attempts to get the four artists together in the same place at the same time proved impossible, so he worked around his collaborators' schedules and filmed different kind of clips of each. So it's been a really special project to be involved with."įilming the music video was tricky. "The Bellamys from the '70s, and coming up through the '80s and '90s with Clint and Marty, and me in the 2000s.
I thought, 'Oh my gosh, that's kinda God's hand on it,'" he recounts. "It just dawned on me one day when we were in the middle of the process. It wasn't until he'd confirmed them all to contribute to the new version of the song that he realized that between the four of them, they covered four decades of country music. Raybon and the Bellamys, while not as closely tied to the history of "Sweet Southern Comfort," were artists that Jewell had known and been a fan of for years.
"Clint was an integral part of it the first time around. "Clint and I stayed in touch over the years and I consider him a friend, so he was the first call, it was a no-brainer," Jewell tells Taste of Country. Black was the first person that Jewell got in touch with once he decided he wanted to enlist guest performers on the new version of "Sweet Southern Comfort." A mentor to his Nashville Star class and the producer of the self-titled album that originally featured Jewell's song, Black has been a key player in Jewell's career, and the life of this particular song, from the get-go.
0 kommentar(er)
