I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.
“Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.”
“Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.”