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through my bass player Lenny. He invited me to the island of Mustique, and I met my favourite
rocker Mick Jagger, who loves my music.

Anyway, I featured him on “Black Crow Moan” on
guitar and vocals.so it’s so ironic how I was
channeling this isolation and when I took the picture
when I was at the Mustique Blues Festival on the

beach, it was a sort of forlorn moment; “where am I
going to go next with what’s going on in the world”?
It kind of foreshadowed the events. I wrote it two
years prior to the pandemic, in 2018. I wrote it on
the piano in my loft in Jersey City, and I was honing
the tune and it kept coming - more words, more
words, finally got it done and everything else I wrote
along the way, and I recorded it before the pandemic
and then released it during the pandemic. I did it in
studios in Michigan, called Tempermill. I went in,
and we did it. Everybody had a mask on, and I
released it during the shut-downs. Nearly all was
done before and then a little during and then it was mixed. Then we just put it out right away
because it’s my own label. We could just get it together and then put it out into the world,
which is so wonderful about having your own label, but it’s definitely harder. You do what you
have to do. I had to get something out there.

BiTS: How did you get the band together for the new album “Badder To The Bone”? Some
absolutely fabulous musicians, including two of my favourite guitar players, Lance Lopez, and
Billy Davis.

EN: Then the new album “Badder to the Bone”,
that’s the one I just released. I met Lance Lopez a
couple of years ago when he was recording at Paul
Nelson’s house. I was there. I was coming through to
say hi. I saw Lance there. I said I’d love to work with

him one day because he’s so fabulous, so I just wrote
him an email saying, Lance, do you want to come
play on some tunes? He said “Hell, yeah! We’ll make
history” and I sang with Walter Trout at a festival,
and he was there and that’s how we became friends.
I forgot about that. That was in Detroit. I just
emailed him, and he said, “Yes, send me the tune”.
So I did.

Billy Davis I’ve known for years. In fact he’s Barrett
Strong’s best friend from high school. They had a
band together when they were 15, and I was walking into a “Big Boy” in Detroit with Barrett
Strong. Barrett starts walking really fast over to this table. I said where are you going? He said,
there’s Billy Davis, my buddy from childhood. He was sitting there. They were shooting the
shit. It was so funny, and they were talking about this and that and how they did this when
they were little kids in high school and I became friends with Billy at that time and Billy said
“Anytime you need me, Eliza I’m there. I love your voice. I love what you’re doing”. I called him,