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soul, my kind of R & B. If you do it a lot, you’ll find yourself. That’s the whole thing. You just have to
keep doing it and rehearsing it and playing it, and finally you’ll find your own stamp.

BK: Steve Crane joined you on Skyline Drive. He’s been on several of your albums.

SE: Yeah. Steve was my best friend in LA. I met him in ’88, and we became instant friends. He

played bass with Glenn Frey on his solo tours. Great singer, great bass player, great song writer. We
were on a gig together in the valley somewhere - I was subbing for some guy and he was subbing for
some guy and we just hit it off. We wrote ‘Chains of Love’ for my first CD and on this one we wrote
‘Coming Down from Loving You’ together.

As I remember, both of our ladies left us around the same time in LA. We wrote a lot of great tunes

together. He’s my touring bass player. I snatched him up as soon as I could get my hands on him! And
then Robbie Armstrong, he’s been with me for 15 years. That’s the band right there.

BK: Also joining you on Skyline Drive
Scott Ellison is Chris Campbell. You said you’d been
meaning to get together and write

something, and when you did “the
songs just started coming together.”

SE: They did, yeah. Chris was a hero
of mine. He sang in a great regional
band called The Mystery Band and my

drummer Robbie Armstrong was the
drummer in that band. Chris is always
one of my favourite singers I’ve ever
heard in my life. I ranked him up there
with David Ruffin or any of those guys;
I mean he was that good.

He’s a great writer; one of the best I’ve ever worked with. The magic with him is the best I’ve ever
seen, and also being such a great singer, I wanted to bring him aboard and make him a part of this
new album. It worked out great. It’s a great experience and I’m more excited about this record than
any one I’ve ever done. For whatever reason, it just feels… even with everything going on with the

planet - you just never know when the right time is and for some reason, it’s the right time for this
record.

BK: The album has a very laid-back, sparse feel to it. You’ve described the recording process this
way: “I have known most of the musicians and engineers we worked with for quite a while, so the
result is really a bunch of old friends getting together and having a good time doing what we love to
do.”

SE: That sums it up right there. That’s it! With Chris and I writing all these tunes, we had a lot to
pick from and we got the best 10 out of probably 100 demos, ’cause Steve wrote one and I wrote one.