If you believed the producers, after all that television exposure it should have shot right up the charts. It includes an Elton John clip, Gang Starr's DJ Premier rapping, Jamaican house music, a guitar solo by Albert Collins and an Elvin Jones drum sample. It would be another stop, a stage, like with Sting. Everyone had told him not to go and play rock with Sting - his father, the pianist and teacher Ellis, his brother, the cats. Yet it had been a positive stepping-stone in his career, and the strong survive.
Every project is a launching pad to the next level.
You can play golf all day. Musicians play music, he's a musician. Branford set goals for himself. He tried to practice two hours a day. He hates practicing, but he does not enjoy sounding bad in public either.