"My profile has been low lately, but my productivity has been high. I've been working. I've written over 500 songs that nobody's heard.
Then my friend, Walker Ed Amick, who's been bugging me to get back in the public eye for sometime, suggested that I record an album that we'd sell over the internet. That sounded interesting, so I got a bunch of friends together and we cut it at my home studio here in Shadow Hills outside of Los Angeles. It has the best musicians I know on it - Spooner Oldham, David Scott (the greatest piano player I've heard since Leon Russell), Jim Keltner, Jerry McGee, Richie Sambora, Jon Bon Jovi, and Thomas Carlyle, one of the greatest guitar players in the world who just recently passed away.
My Mom sang on it - she's taught me everything I know, for whatever that is worth - and my daughter Bekka. We had a ball doing this damn thing, I'm not really sure how you would classify the music. Some of it's country blues, almost Robert Johnson slide stuff. Some of it's swampy and we did a version of the song I wrote for ERIC CLAPTON,