Waddy and I always find the parts that complement each other. “When you know cats this well, I won’t say it’s effortless, but you find new ways to do things. “We’ve been doing it a million years,” Kortchmar says. Their just-completed album will include a remake of the Zevon-Wachtel co-write “Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead,” but will largely focus on new songs they’ve written and a harder sound. But we don’t want to wave our flag that much.” “And not just as session guys but as writers and producers. “By the end of the shows, people who don’t know go, ‘Wow, these cats have done a lot,’” says Kortchmar.
Speaking of songs, Immediate Family gigs feature the musicians singing and playing tunes they co-wrote, produced and/or played on: “New York Minute” and “Dirty Laundry” (with Henley), “Somebody’s Baby” (with Browne), “Lawyers, Guns and Money” and “Werewolves of London” (with Warren Zevon), and “Honey Don’t Leave L.A.” (with Taylor). “Different music, different personnel,” says Kortchmar. The Immediate Family also won’t revive the instrumental fusion made by the Section, the Seventies band that included Kortchmar, Sklar, Kunkel, and keyboardist Craig Doerge. He may not choose to, but he can, for damn sure.” When we did ‘Summertime Blues’, he kicked the crap out of it, and it reminded us that he can do that shit. James had to yell over the band, and it was too much for him. When we were young, we were both in a band called the Flying Machine and we would play clubs with no monitors. James is a terrific rock & roll and blues singer, but he doesn’t want to do it much. “It was rocking out a bit more than James usually does. “That was an incredible tour,” Kortchmar recalls. Ever since at least 1979, when most of them backed James Taylor on his unusually raucous Flag tour, they’ve been itching to turn up their amps. It just all fell together.”Īs “Cruel Twist” shows, the Immediate Family doesn’t revel in the mellow balladeering associated with many of the musicians they once supported. But as he says, “While we were recording, it was obvious that we should keep it going, so we made it a band at that point. Since his fellow session veterans were all in town, Kortchmar recruited them as his band. The concept of the Immediate Family emerged when Kortchmar was approached by a Japanese label to make an album of his songs old and new.
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