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AB: I don't try to be like profound, deep, you know, this is blues, this is kind of dance
music. Sometimes songs come out better, but sometimes the lyrics are just there to
fill space, but I haven't ever really considered it my craft. I've never gone and like

hung out with songwriters and tried to work on, you know what I mean? It’s mostly
just been the music has kind of been first, but that said, I think every now and then
something pretty good comes out as far as lyrics.

BiTS: So tell me something about some of the songs. Tell me about the title song.

AB: That is called ‘If Mama Ain't Happy Nobody's Happy’. Yeah, that's something
I'll do a lot, if mama ain't happy nobody's happy. I'll take like a common saying, some

expression that I've heard, and build around that. So that's one of those ones, ‘If
Mama Ain't Happy Nobody's Happy’. As a matter of fact, I was like planning to do it
with Bill.

BiTS: Is that a song you wrote
some time ago?

AB: Probably been doing that

one for a couple years, not
very long, no, it's a fairly
recent one.

BiTS: Okay.

AB: And it actually came
from; I said this in passing to

Bill. He's like, this sounds like
a song, and then later on, I
ended up writing a song to it.

And the next song, ‘Fake It 'Till
You Make It’, it's kind of the same thing, I mean, it’s just an expression, fake it ‘till

you make it. So I kind of made a song about that. That's one way I'll go about it.

BiTS: Tell me something about the actual recording processes. Did all the trio get
into the studio at the same time or was there anything added afterwards?

AB: It was recorded live and then I pulled it up – it’s a place called the Cove in

Arlington, and yeah, it was kind of a mess because I know I've learned this lesson a
long time ago but I didn't follow my own knowledge and I didn't look at the studio

before we went because I knew the guy. I asked him on the phone can we all see
each other? Because we need to see each other because we haven't played together
in a while and they need to be able to work off my cues. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah. And then I get there and it's not the case. We can't be isolated and look at each

other. So he had to do a last-minute shuffle, and we were in a pretty good-sized room,
but Bill and I were kind of in closets. We could see out of the closet to prevent the

drum from overpowering the whole thing. So yeah, it was kind of a last minute, it