Dee Brown Interview Page 4

Smitty:  Yeah, man.

DB:  There’s a bass solo on there.

Smitty:  That was tight.

DB:  And so believe it or not, and you can ask anybody, he did that with one take.

Smitty:  Wow.

DB:  Only one take, that was it and he was done.

Smitty:  That’s knowing your business.

DB:  And I like that. Yeah.  Yeah, he didn’t waste a lotta time, no pun intended.  No, but Dave is my man.  He is the kind of person who is just so funny.  I mean, nothing bothers the guy. If it takes him two, three, four takes, he’s just “Hey, man, I’m gonna do it for you, Dee, ‘cause I love you.”  (Both laugh.)  “I want it to sound just as good as you want it to sound.”  I mean, that’s what you meant, and that’s the kind of people I’m dealing with, you know, with Desi and with Gerald and with David. These are my good friends growing up. Well, Desi’s new, I just met him, but the other guys are my good friends and they really wanna see some positive things happen, so they’d lend their talent.

Smitty:  Yeah, well, you can feel that positive, camaraderie-type groove with the record, and this is music that you could do just about anything with.  I mean, it’s not just situation music, but it’s just got this overall “take me with you” kind of vibe and it’s a party record.  I love it.

DB:  Absolutely.  Now, there’s one song that we kinda missed on and that was my song or the song called “Sunday Jazz.”

Smitty:  Yeah, great vocals.

DB:  Yup, “Sunday Jazz” was sung by a young lady by the name of Audra Bryant. Yeah.  Audra Bryant…I had the song “Sunday Jazz” and actually Gerald wrote that song.  We had the music, everything, all the foundation down, but we had no melody.  We kept messing with the melody.  It just didn’t come together and so Gerald suggested “Maybe we should get somebody to sing.”  So this young lady named Audra came down to the studio and we brought her over to the De’Laf studio and we told her what we wanted the song to be about, she listened to the song, took the song home, and next day she had all the lyrics done.

Smitty:  Wow.

DB:  Came to the studio and sung it. You heard it.

Smitty:  (Laughs.)

DB:  And I’m just telling you.  I mean, these sorts of things….we’re very blessed because, yes, this is a divine kind of intervention. Blessed to come up with these kinds of people to come up with these kinds of ideas for things to flow like this.

Smitty:  Talk about your feelings when this project was finished, when you can really sit back and relive some of the experiences of doing the record and now you’re listening to the finished product.  What was that like for you?

DB:  Yeah, I’m telling you, my good friend Gerald, who is the producer of the project, he’s like…how can you say it?  He’s like riding a horse and he’s kicking you.

Smitty:  (Laughs.)

DB:  You know he’s always kicking you.  “Dee, you can do it better.  Come on, Dee.  Come on, you can do it better.  Do another take.”  You know, that sort of thing and those sort of things go through my mind having Desi come over and say “Desi, just come up with something” and he’d just come up with line after line after line after line, and he is tireless with it, just keep coming. Those are the sort of things that stay in my mind.  The diligence that we had, I mean, and the focus that we had on finishing this project and working on it continuously until we got it done. That’s the thing that kinda sticks in my mind.

Smitty:  Yeah, and that’s nice, man.  Well, I certainly wish you all the success in the world with this record and I would encourage everyone to take a listen to this record because it’s that good. You hear people say “Well, I wanna hear something fresh and new.”  Well, here it is because this is a fantastic record and I highly recommend this one.  Dee, man, I give you the high five on this one, brotha, ‘cause it’s great.

DB:  Thank you so very much for having me, Smitty and your support.

Smitty:  You’re welcome.  So, now, can we see you on the road soon somewhere?

DB:  Well, right now we’re working on that.  The main thing we’re doing is we’re doing radio promotion trying to get things set up so that we can do some of the festivals and things that are coming in later in the year.

Smitty:  Yeah, so how can people get the record?

DB: You can get the record by going to the Web site, which is www.deebrownmusic.com, and also you can visit My Space, which is www.myspace.com/deebrownmusic.

Smitty:  All right, very cool. Well, Dee, you did it, man. This is fantastic.  My congratulations to your entire team, including your photographer, Christine Edwards.

DB:  Oh yeah.  (Laughs.)

Smitty:  She’s a bad girl.

DB:  Yeah, Christine was very patient with me and I’m really not the kind of guy who is photogenic or whatever you wanna call it.  She took time with me, took some great shots and coached me through the whole thing. I thank the Lord for her blessings also.

Smitty: Very cool.  All right, we’ve been talking with the fantastic guitarist, Dee Brown. His great new record is called “No Time to Waste” and you certainly don’t wanna waste any time picking up this record. It is a fantastic mix of music with some phenomenal musicians. Dee, once again, congratulations and best of everything with this project and your entire career for this year and beyond and I hope to catch you on the road myself, my friend.

DB:  Thank you, Smitty.

                                                                                     Baldwin “Smitty” Smith

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