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Thread started 06/24/15 8:43am

Graycap23

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James Poyser article

Where producer James Poyser writes hits for D'Angelo, Common and Erykah Badu

Technology has made telecommuting a possibility for a range of professions, even musicians. Producer James Poyser's home studio is lined with Grammys and awards. Raised in the church, music came naturally and early to Poyser, who is able to spend plenty of time with his own family thanks to his home studio. In partnership withCadillac, The Pursuit looks inside Poyser's studio where he produces hit records between spending time with his family and playing piano with The Roots on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

When James Poyser receives a compliment he involuntarily laughs with a sharp exhale, as if expunging the praise and giving it back to the world. Though he may not himself be a household name, he's written melodies that stick in your head and play on the albums that make you dance. Poyser doesn't name drop and he doesn't brag. As piano player for The Roots, recently he's been thrust into the spotlight, or at least the studio lights, on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show

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Reply #1 posted 06/24/15 8:58am

Cinny

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I never realized he was up there playing on Jimmy Fallon. I loved his playing on Mama's Gun.

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Reply #2 posted 06/24/15 1:22pm

Ego101

nice!

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Reply #3 posted 06/24/15 1:28pm

Graycap23

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Cinny said:

I never realized he was up there playing on Jimmy Fallon. I loved his playing on Mama's Gun.

I don't watch the show but I didn't know he was a part of that band either.

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Reply #4 posted 06/25/15 10:02am

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Cinny said:

I never realized he was up there playing on Jimmy Fallon.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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