Jacquire King: "After having completed the overdubs in Pro Tools at Blackbird, I took the files to my studio, The LBT [also in Nashville], where I mixed the entire album, and where I do almost all my mix work. These days my work is kind of half and half between mixing stuff that's given to me, and engineering, producing and mixing projects. With a few exceptions, I mix all the stuff I produce. When I'm given stuff to mix that I haven't produced, I spend a bit of time beforehand trying to get to know the artist and their vision. I want to respect what they did and enhance that. My approach is fairly simple in that regard. I'm fortunate in that a lot of the stuff I'm asked to mix already has a lot of character, and so it already has a strong vision built in, so I'm sort of just joining the party. But I will sometimes take drastic measures if I feel a song needs it.