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Emitt Lynn Rhodes (born February 25, 1950, Decatur, Illinois) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer. Rhodes began his career in musical ensembles The Palace Guard (as the group's drummer) and The Merry-Go-Round (multi-instrumentalist). ==Recording career== The Merry-Go-Round had a recording contract with A&M Records when they disbanded in 1969. Rhodes recorded songs at A&M to fulfill that contract, but A&M decided to not release it at the time. Rhodes then decided to go out on his own and bought equipment to make a recording studio in his parents' garage. Rhodes recorded his first album (''Emitt Rhodes'') in that home studio. He got a recording contract with ABC/Dunhill Records, who released his album, as well as the next two albums he recorded (''Mirror'' and ''Farewell to Paradise''). Rhodes got a $5,000 advance for ''Emitt Rhodes'', which he spent on recording equipment. His first album was a critical success – Billboard called Rhodes "one of the finest artists on the music scene today" and later called his first album one of the "best albums of the decade". The album reached number 29 on the Billboard charts. The single "Fresh as a Daisy" reached number 54 on the pop chart. Rhodes opened at the Troubadour nightclub on February 9, 1971, concurrent with a large earthquake that struck the Los Angeles area. An ad that ran in Billboard said 'That wasn't an earthquake, that was Emitt Rhodes opening at the Troubadour!'. Meanwhile, shortly after ''Emitt Rhodes'' was released by Dunhill, A&M decided to release their old recordings of ''The American Dream'', which confused record buyers. ''Mirror'' was released in 1971 and did reach the top 200 on Billboard's album chart. In 1973 Dunhill released Rhodes' final album, ''Farewell to Paradise''. Rhodes wrote all of the songs on his albums. On ''Emitt Rhodes'', ''Mirror'', and ''Farewell to Paradise'', he played all of the instruments and sang all of the vocals while recording himself in his home recording studio. He used a four-track recorder for the instruments for ''Emitt Rhodes'' and transferred those to an eight-track recorder to add the vocals. He used an eight-track recorder for ''Mirror'', and ''Farewell to Paradise''. The mixdown engineer on ''Farewell to Paradise'' was Curt Boettcher, the producer and musician who is best remembered for his work on the "soft pop" albums by Sagittarius and The Millennium. Rhodes' contract with Dunhill called for an album every six months (six albums over three years) – a schedule that was impossible for Rhodes to meet, due to writing all of the songs and recording each instrument and vocal individually by himself.〔 Dunhill sued Rhodes for $250,000 and withheld royalties because of his failure to deliver albums on the timescale required by the contract. ''Emitt Rhodes'' took nearly a year to record, the album ''Mirror'' took nine months, and ''Farewell to Paradise'' took over a year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emitt Rhodes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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