Nashville’s legendary music community is home to some of the world’s greatest musicians. They’re a varied group of uniquely creative, talented, and colorful people who not only make some of the world’s greatest music, but also support each other as business associates and friends – many of them forming life-long bonds and friendships beyond the scope of the world of music.
“Shortly after releasing Ain’t No Stranger, Jimmy Nalls began work on his second solo record. He tried valiantly to work through the challenges of Parkinson’s, and with the help of longtime collaborator and fellow songwriter and blues artist Dave Duncan, they wrote, recorded and left approximately 12 songs in various stages of completion. Jimmy himself was able to record several key rhythm and lead tracks, along with several keeper vocal tracks. But eventually, the tremors and other symptoms from Parkinson’s made singing and playing impossible for him, ironically wrecking his extraordinary and trademark vibrato. Needless to say the frustration over his inability to complete the project became overwhelming, and at times downright unbearable, so the tracks were eventually shelved, seemingly lost forever on a hard drive on a computer in Jimmy’s home studio.
Today, through a few ironic coincidences and the work of several close friends and former coworkers coming together “behind the scenes,” this compilation of new material has been given new life, and a new name – The Jimmy Nalls Project.
Though retrieved in various stages of completion, all of the tracks and accompanying files were sorted through and distributed to a very select group of Jimmy’s friends and colleagues, all ready and eager to help complete – finally – The Jimmy Nalls Project record/CD and release it to world.“
– The Jimmy Nalls Project Facebook Page
http://jimmynalls.net/