  l.a. woman is the sixth studio album by the doors, and the last recorded with lead singer jim morrison, who died in july 1971, less than 3 months after the album's release. its style signified a return to blues, following in the footsteps of morrison hotel. l.a. woman has remained one of the band's most pivotal and popular albums. it allowed jim morrison to express his 'old blues man' personality as it gave him the freedom to sing the blues music that he was influenced by as a child, including musicians howlin' wolf and john lee hooker. the song "the changeling" was a tribute to r&b artist james brown. l.a. woman has sold over 14.5 million copies. ==production== following the departure of their record producer paul a. rothchild (who, contrary to popular myth, loved "riders on the storm" but dismissed the group's differing style on "love her madly" as "cocktail music") around november 1970, the band fell in to a state of depression and jim morrison was obviously bored with sunset sound, the studio in which their first two albums were recorded. bruce botnick, their engineer, suggested they record at the doors' workshop. he and the band began production on the album at the doors workshop in los angeles. most of the tracks were recorded live, except for a few overdubbed keyboard parts by ray manzarek. morrison recorded his singing in the studio's bathroom to get a fuller sound. elvis presley's bass player jerry scheff was brought in to play bass on the album, and rhythm guitarist marc benno was brought in so that robbie krieger could focus on playing lead guitar during live takes. botnick later produced and mixed a new [[surround sound#5.1 channel surround (digital discrete: dolby digital, dts, sdds)|5.1
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