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Lee Ritenour

"My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion."

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Amber Hurdle

"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."

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Amber Hurdle

"To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know."

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Amber Hurdle

"You see, I was the son of a baptist minister."

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Amber Hurdle

"How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?"

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Amber Hurdle

"It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son."

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Amber Hurdle

"My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material."

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Amber Hurdle

"I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too."

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Amber Hurdle

"My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness."

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Lee Ritenour
"I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album."

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Lee Ritenour
"Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing."

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Lee Ritenour
"I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part."

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Lee Ritenour
"Even though there are some great keyboard players on the album, there are a number of songs with no keyboard on them and the backing is all guitar oriented. This is first time I've ever done this actually."

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Lee Ritenour
"If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music."

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Lee Ritenour
"I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now."

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"Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor."

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Lee Ritenour
"My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion."

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