No quotes from the materials contained herein may be used in any media without attribution to NPR. "But if they touch me, and a hundred tricks I'll play before I'll yield. "in the sense that singers are working all the time, Most of them are newcomers to opera. Tenn. and one from Long Island NY - have vastly different personalities But their shared musical foundations were more than enough to bridge the gap as they began jamming together "The idea was you've got to do stuff that doesn't sound like we're just rehashing our past" Tiven says "If I didn't know these guys as well as I do I would have been very intimidated because their accomplishments are just extraordinary But they're just such easy guys that the three of us together in a room - it's just like Joe Blow and the Schmoes just trying to write a great song And we never left a session without coming up with something" Cavaliere says that the songwriting culture drew both him and Cropper to Nashville decades ago By then he'd already conspired with bandmate Eddie Brigati to write "A Beautiful Morning" "How Can I Be Sure" and most other Rascals hits Meanwhile Cropper was a huge force at Stax co-writing "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay" "Soul Man" "Knock On Wood" and many others "Because remember Nashville is a writing town" Cavaliere says "People get together and write all the time" Tiven says that nearly all of the keyboard and guitar parts on the album were preserved from those initial writing sessions - capturing he hopes the moment of creative conception rather than a performance off a music stand Cavaliere says that they took those tracks to another studio where they were fleshed out with bass drums and background vocals "And then we realized 'Hey this stuff's OK You know this stuff's pretty good'" Cavaliere says "'Let's continue' And then it became an album Prior to that it was just songs" Neither artist had released new material under his own name for more than a decade With years away from writing and recording original music it wasn't a foregone conclusion that they'd be happy with the results But Cropper says that they had no one looking over their shoulder and nothing to lose "We started with one and it was fun and we continued" Cropper says "And I think we kept saying - thinking I don't know if we said it - we were thinking that if it doesn't become fun anymore we'll just quit But it never stopped being fun" Laying Out There's a story in the album's liner notes about Otis Redding intruding on a Rascals session in the 1960s so he could convince himself that Cavaliere was in fact a white man Today Cropper says that Cavaliere still has the voice of a teenage soul singer All the same Cavaliere discovered that there were times when it was better not to sing "You know sometimes you write good ones and sometimes you don't write good ones" he says The duo had planned an all-vocals album but Cavaliere didn't like how a song called "Full Moon Tonight" was coming together "I could not sing that song" he says "And I literally hid And Tiven said 'I think it's a great song' And I said 'You sing it' It just shows you how things happen" In fact four songs became instrumentals That helped revive some of the organ- and guitar-driven Booker T & The MGs sound and let Cropper assert his own voice Modern Memphis All the music on Nudge It Up a Notch has one foot in the past and another in the digital now Cropper and Cavaliere couldn't have recorded an album like this in their hit-making days layering parts onto a tiny hard drive in different studios Cavaliere says that while he loves those new tools he's a little bewildered putting a CD out in today's very different music environment "I have no idea what to expect" he says "Like I don't even know where it's going to be for sale Literally Because the places I know of are all gone So if we're going to be downloaded so be it" The artists understand that it's impossible to re-create the unique social political and personal chemistry that made their work of 40 years ago so important But it can't hurt that this album features two artists who so vividly remember a music business where work was play and colleagues were family they recorded for sister record companies; they ran in similar musical circles for even longer. Composing or performing music is an act of will; listening is the act of giving in to someone else's will. but Eno is an extremely clear thinker." says Tom Kelly.

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