Album Notes

In the 1970s, the late Trevor Symonette, an ace guitarist who played lead for The Bahamas’ top pop band, taught me to play Minnie Riperton’s hit 'Lovin’ You'. The chords were a quantum leap from my basic strumming the brief tutoring carried me a long way. In the 1980s, as a medical student in Jamaica, I played in a pop band aptly named 'The Cadavers'. That band died a natural death around about the same time that I was introduced to the artistry of Earl Klugh.

Kelly's Song, a sweet grooving Klugh-inspired melody was written in 1988 that I turned to Neil Symonette at Reel Time recording studios in Nassau to record. With his percussion expertise, the saxophone sound of Dion Turnquest and the bass of Adrian D'Aguilar, Kelly's song was given new life. Burt Bacharach's 'This Guy’s in Love with You' is a longtime favourite and the inspiration for 'Sunset over Old Fort Bay' is easy appreciate if you ever get to see the breathtaking live event from Old Fort Beach in the Bahamas.

It may be unpolished and rather short but if I were to hold until its shortcomings were fixed it might never see the light of day. So here it is, warts and all. Another Side.