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Brought to you by FUNKNSTUFF.NET and hosted by Scott “DR GX” Goldfine — musicologist and author of “Everything Is on THE ONE: The First Guide of Funk” ― “TRUTH IN RHYTHM” is the interview show that gets DEEP into the pocket with contemporary music’s foremost masters of the groove. Become a TRUTH IN RHYTHM Member at https://www.patreon.com/truthinrhythm.
Featured in TIR Episode 191 (2 parts): Keyboardist, singer, composer and producer Preston Glass. Starting out as a staff writer for Philly Soul legend Thom Bell, by the early 1980s he was working with some of the biggest names in R&B and continued to do so well into the 21st century.
Those artists include his mentor, Narada Michael Walden, Aretha Franklin, Phyllis Hyman, Whitney Houston, Stacy Latisaw, Teena Marie, Larry Graham, Sheena Easton, Ben E. King, Kenny G, George Benson, Earth, Wind & Fire, Lionel Richie, Jermaine Stewart, the Dells, Stylistics, Delfonics, Lenny Williams, Freda Payne, Natalie Cole, Johnny Mathis, Starpoint, Evelyn “Champagne” King, and many others.
In all, he has been associated with more than 30 Top 10 R&B hits and five Top 10 pop hits. And since 2006, Glass, whose brother Alan is also an accomplished musician, has released a half-dozen albums under his own name.
RECORDED FEBRUARY 2021