'But it's hard to concentrate on what you're doing when you want to ask about Beatles stories the whole time.

'Working with him was astounding,' said Andrew. According to Thornton and Andrew, they'd known him for a number of years and he'd wanted to produce something for them, and it finally happened in 2017, a year before Emerick's passing. That influence is evident in the work created by the Boxmasters, which they describe as a 'two-man full band,' and particularly in their experiences working with late Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emerick. Subscribe today through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, GooglePodcasts, Stitcher, RadioPublic, Breaker, Player.FM, Pocket Casts or wherever you're listening. 'The sounds, structures, chords I would play – everything that I loved in my life was influenced by music.' His father started playing guitar in his 30s and, having gone to a 'very musical school,' Andrew took the instrument and began playing himself.

I wasn't into anything current until much later in high school.' My dad and mom loved the Beatles – that's just what we listened to. 'And they would have Beatles nights, so I'd get to stay up late for it. 'There was a show called 'Solid Gold Saturday Night' in Kansas,' he told Womack. 'Everyone I knew wanted to be in a band after 'Ed Sullivan',' he said.Īndrew, who 'wasn't there at the birth of the British Invasion,' said he discovered the Beatles on 1970s radio. With his uncle being a country musician, Thornton got his start in music by playing drums in that band before forming his own. Jazz guitarist Dan Wilson on urgency in 'Eleanor Rigby' and what genius actually looks like

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