082: Homer Steinweiss (Sharon Jones, Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars, The Mighty Imperials)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As one of the funkiest drummers working today, Homer Steinweiss carries the torch lit by legends such as Clyde Stubblefield, Jabo Starks, and James Gadson. He tells Joe about growing up in Manhattan; his early love of grunge; recording with The Mighty Imperials at age 16; and how he came into his own as an artist.

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0:00.0	The Trap Set will always be available for free, but we rely on donations from our listeners.
0:05.4	Please visit our website at thetrapset.net and click Donate.
0:09.2	Subscribe to our show on iTunes, and if you enjoy what you hear, give us a review. This is Joe Wong.
0:27.6	Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.
0:32.6	I want to play something for you. Come. Come. Yeah. Come.
0:38.3	Pick it up.
0:40.3	Hey You're hearing pick it up, hey, lay it in the cut.
0:57.0	Homer first appeared on the cut.
1:01.0	You're hearing Pick It Up, Lay It in the Cut by Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings,
1:07.0	featuring my guest, Homer Steinweiss on drums. Homer first appeared on the New York funk scene at age 16 and soon became a central figure in that city's soul revival,
1:18.6	recording with artists such as Lee Fields, The Mighty Imperials, and Charles Bradley.
1:23.6	With an uncanny gift of groove and meticulous sense of sonics, Homer can convincingly
1:29.9	evoke the spirit of the funkmasters of the 60s, and his true brilliance became more clear
1:35.2	when he carried the torch into the modern arena. He recorded on Amy Winehouse's breakthrough
1:42.9	2006 album Back to Black, and in the subsequent
1:46.7	decade has worked with the varied who's who of pop stars and critical darlings alike, including
1:52.2	Bruno Mars, Nas, Michael Boubley, St. Vincent, and The Kills.
1:58.2	I spoke to Homer last year at Diamond Mine, his Brooklyn studio, where in addition
2:03.6	to drumming, he focuses on production and composition. And now our conversation with Homer Steinweiss.
2:23.3	I grew up in the West mostly like in the West Village and in Chelsea, but my family
2:39.6	moved around a bunch.
2:41.2	What did your folks do?
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