Album Notes

Charley Cross Interviews Phil Brown

in a conference room on a rainy day
in Jimi Hendrix hometown of Seattle, WA
on January 10, 2006 for [the jimi project]


“…. I actually think your voice is in the same tonal range as Jimi's.
You are not trying to sound like him in terms of the guitar playing. You
are doing different arrangements, but...your voice...it's not Jimi
Hendrix' voice but it's got the same melancholies to it...and there's
a darkness to Jimi's voice too & I don't know if that's from playing
the blues or background but-you've got...you've got a darkness in your
sound-the way you approach these songs vocally and I think it...it
works with this material”


”… And, essentially, . . . you …are trying in someway to pay tribute to more than Jimi Hendrix as a songwriter than as a guitarist.”


”… . . as I write about him in my biography of Jimi, …Curtis Mayfield was one of Jimi's greatest influences and I hear more Curtis Mayfield in your record than I do on Jimi's. Jimi was kind of afraid to completely embrace that Curtis Mayfield "smoothness" both in terms of singing and
playing....well....as a biographer, …”


”I think it is important that people don't think that you are simply a
Jimi Hendrix clone..., which we have plenty of. . . . .”


“. . . You don't really look like him & you don't exactly play like him but you also have another long storied career and you've done quite a bit in music and you've got your own original music and an album of your own originals set to come out….”


Charley Cross is a top ten NewYork Time best selling biographer/author
Charley wrote the acclaimed Kurt Cobain biography
"Heavier Than Heaven" and more recently wrote
the best selling biography of Jimi Hendrix "Room Full of Mirrors"