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Gail Jhonson Interview Page 4
Smitty: Well, speaking of gifts, how is it going with going out and touring and giving your audience a gift of this great music?
GJ: Well, we’ve got a couple of gigs coming up. Actually, April 29th I’m gonna play live here at the Aqualounge in Beverly Hills and we’re gonna play some of the songs from the CD and just kinda celebrate the release of it, and so I’m looking forward to that. I have a couple of local gigs, but this Summer Storm thing seems to be taking off. I don’t know when I’m gonna find time to squeeze mine in until the fall. Well, no, I take that back. April 27th I’ll be in Detroit at Club Yesterday’s. I’m gonna open for Pamela Williams.
Smitty: Oh yeah!
GJ: Yeah, yeah, so Dee Brown, Gail Jhonson and Pamela Williams will be on that date, and then I probably won’t have another show again until September. There’s a Black Network Association September 20th. So I’m really looking at the fall, October-November, down in there, once the record catches on with radio, and just see who starts biting.
Smitty: Yeah, well, it should be a fun summer and a fun rest of the year, actually, with this great record.
GJ: Yeah, I sure hope so, Smitty. I am, mm! I’m so excited it ain’t funny. (Both laugh.)
Smitty: Well, you should be and you know you’re my girl, so you know I gotta comment on this photo you have underneath the CD. Were you hiding? (Both laugh.)
GJ: Oh yeah, you have to really wanna listen. You take that CD out and then you get another gem, see?
Smitty: I know. I said “Oh, Gail’s got her little sexy on here.” (Laughs.) But it’s a great project and I love the art design. I don’t know who did this, but I love the art design.
GJ: Yeah, I’m with NuGroove Records so it was the art director there and myself and my fantastic photographer Nick Spanos. He is absolutely fantastic. So I was able to, once I got all those fabulous pictures, put everything together and that’s what we got.
Smitty: Yeah, and speaking of that, by the way, congratulations on your new record deal with NuGroove.
GJ: Yeah, yeah, huh? How ‘bout that? When I told everybody about NuGroove, they were like “What? You got a deal? Nobody’s doing that anymore.” (Both laugh.) So I said “Oh yeah, they do.”
Smitty: So you’re over there with the “Chack Daddy” [David Chackler]! He’s one of the coolest out there.
GJ: With the Chack Daddy. He is so fantastic. He is just really so cool. He was so welcoming and he said “Come on, let’s do this. Let’s see what we can do,” you know? He really liked the music, he likes my style, and why not, you know?
Smitty: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, tell him “Welcome to the group.” (Laughs.) There’s a lot of us that really love your style. Well, I want to say congratulations because I really think that you’ve really scored huge with this project and I just love everything about it, and I really think that the listening audience is going to just totally embrace this record because, man, it is fantastic.
GJ: Well, thank you. Thank you so much, Smitty. Thank you.
Smitty: And I can’t wait to see you. I wanna hear you play some of these live. I got to hear you recently on the All Star Smooth Music Cruise. We had a good time on the cruise and that was cool.
GJ: Smitty, that was a lotta fun. Well, the 2009 Cruise is coming up so hopefully I’ll be performing—I know I’ll be performing with Norman Brown, but I’d sure like to do some things from my record, so we’ll see how it goes.
Smitty: Oh yeah, you’ve got to do some things with this. Because, man, this music is too good to hold back, it really is, yeah.
GJ: Good, good, yup.
Smitty: Well, listen, once again, congratulations on this great record and your tour dates and, of course, all those will be on your Web site.
GJ: Right, www.gailjhonson.com.
Smitty: Cool! Yeah, and I can’t wait to see you out on the road. I know I’ll see you real soon in Las Vegas, so I look forward to that. We’ll get to do a little hang.
GJ: That’s wonderful. I look forward to it.
Smitty: All right, we’ve been talking with the incredible and fantastic Ms. Gail Jhonson. Her latest project is called Pearls and trust me, it is a beautiful, funky strand of music. It is available in stores everywhere and online April 29th. Gail, thanks again for spending some time to talk about this great record and you know I love you, girl, and love what you do and for that I just put you in My Five. (Both laugh.)
GJ: Wonderful, wonderful. You have a very great weekend. I will talk with you soon.
Baldwin “Smitty” Smith
For More Information Visit www.gailjhonson.com and www.thenugroove.com
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