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Release Date: 2021-11-09Label: Cool Jewel Records
UNA on Time Zone:Wurli meets soul groove in a new zone. Combining a wurli jam and Jennifer’s inspired lyric and melody, the band started working on this track just as Covid struck. We found ourselves ensconced in our studios and didn’t have the usual reparté that we were used to.
The idea of our existence was in a new Time Zone struck us as something to consider as we were all now connected to this new reality of operation out of our places. It was liberating in a way. We had more time to consider the production, references to sweeping background vocals, recording our own drums, adding some vintage keyboards (which we love) and even some sound effects like a single piano note.
For Richard Time Zone started out as a Bill Withers thing, you know, a comfortable and fun groove, and then went stellar with Jennifer’s vocals and that lyric line. So satisfying, while i love Bill, this was not Grandmothers Hands. It was our hands, in this epic Time Zone of 2021.
Back at the time, Bill Withers was a bit of an anomaly, kinda, in that he was putting out this funk groove thing on a wurli, simple stuff, bass, drums, you know, and his wonderful voice. So full of life and the reality of black lives in those days. It was hard to miss what he was saying. It was liberating, it mattered. He didn't groove to some popular or corporate desire, this was his own thing, and I loved it.
Actually, besides Ray Charles’s What’d I Say, this was my first Wurli love song. I had to have one, and by working Sundays in a cigar-smoke-sticking-to-my-skin-restaurant-scraping-tables thing, I finally got one.
Thank you Bill Withers for the inspiration to work my ass off and make this Time Zone happen. Thank you Jennifer for this magnificent vocal.
Now, it is a wistful longing for our former selves, living as we did. And Bill Withers, rest in peace, you gave us your joy and belonging.
We are in our Time Zone now.