Interview with musician King Leg a.k.a. Bryan Joyce
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"The singer-songwriter has a classic sound with a modern sensibility, like Roy Orbison mixed with Morrissey...
Q. Signing with Sire Records is huge. Can you tell me how that came about?
A. Originally, I came out here and Dwight [Yoakam] and I were planning on putting it out on his label.
I guess he was chatting with Cameron Strang from Warner letting him know what he was doing. Cameron just got interested and said maybe Warner would like to be involved with this. We ended up recording it thinking Warner would be involved somehow. We thought maybe Nonesuch would put it out, and I was excited about it because [Conor] Oberst is on that label.
What happened is Lenny Waronker came by to listen and really enjoyed it. He went back to the Warner office and, I think, mentioned something to Robin Hurley, who is the VP of Sire. Then he ended up coming by.
Two songs in, Robin looks over at me. Did you listen to a lot of Morrissey? That really got me excited and threw me off. No one else had noticed that connection that quickly. It turned out he worked with Smiths and Morrissey.
Robin sent the album to (Sire Records founder) Seymour Stein, who still had the final say on what goes on with Sire.
It’s really mind boggling and humbling in a lot of ways. It’s like an out-of-body experience to have all this attention and validation from these guys."