Have you ever been "let go" from a job?
I've even been fired from a few jobs. I got fired from one job because they wanted their recording to sound raw and then they delivered me an album with 80 tracks! Both of those were Christian rock bands and, honestly, they're projects I'm glad I got fired from.
Have you done much work with Christian rock? There's so much in Nashville.
I recently worked with a group who's sold more Christian albums than anyone in history, but I had no idea who they were. It's not a religious thing, it's just that I like to wake up on Sundays and watch football. [laughter]
That's a good religion!
I did everything I could to lose the Christian gig — not on purpose, but scheduling around that time was hard. I was working on the Wanda Jackson record [The Party Ain't Over] with Jack White III. Then I was on the road with The Dead Weather, which was fun, but I'll never do that again. Then, when I got back, these guys kept trying to get me to do the record. They're a part of a huge church from Australia. Once I started to mix, I found out that the band was on tour and unable to listen to mixes. I ended up mixing the stems and streaming the mixes to them in Sydney. We closed mixes and communicated changes over Skype. Of course in 2001 I did that Jars of Clay record, The Eleventh Hour, which was a Grammy winner. That was my first one. Jack Joseph Puig mixed it. Umm...
