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Janelle Borg

“The first emotion was abject fear. Pick your poison, Michael Jackson, or Quincy Jones”: Session guitar great Dann Huff recalls his first time recording with the King of Pop

Dann Huff performs during CMT Crossroads in Franklin, Tennessee.

Session player extraordinaire Dann Huff has had his fair share of iconic sessions – it’s enough to mention that, in the ’80s alone, the six-stringer-turned-producer played on albums by George Benson, Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand, Whitesnake, and Johnny Van Zant, to name a (very) mere few. And that’s without even mentioning his work with the King of Pop – aka Michael Jackson.

“That was a tracking session, too, which was the first time that I worked with him,” he tells Vertex Effects, in reference to his work on I Just Can't Stop Loving You, Jackson's duet with Siedah Garrett and his first release from the iconic Bad album.

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