{"id":29653,"date":"2022-03-06T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=29653"},"modified":"2022-03-07T16:53:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T00:53:30","slug":"in-the-moment-with-albert-cummings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/in-the-moment-with-albert-cummings\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Moment With Albert Cummings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Albert Cummings is full of surprises. He\u2019s been playing now for about a quarter of a century and his brand new album is scheduled for release in April. His credentials as a journeyman are legitimate and his followers will tell you, he\u2019s known for his \u2018live\u2019 shows. Cummings has been described by journalists and fans alike, as a guitarist of \u2018unbridled ferocity\u2019 who also possesses \u2018deep soulfulness.\u2019 Albert just grins. <strong>\u201cMood Swings!\u201d<\/strong> (laughing) <strong>\u201cAsk my wife!\u201d<\/strong> (laughing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After an extended hiatus during the start of the pandemic and only sporadic outings last year, Cummings feels he\u2019s used his time productively. He\u2019s written more and spent time in the studio with Grammy Award-winning producer and audio engineer, Chuck Ainlay. The result of that collaboration is called \u2018TEN.\u2019 When we caught up with Albert in Southern California just prior to the start of his current tour, you could sense the anticipation.<strong> \u201cToday\u2019s a big day\u201d<\/strong> he said. <strong>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a new record coming out \u2018Need Somebody\u2019 and it\u2019s my first one in two years and it\u2019s my tenth album.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tkKsKYlyxnI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"1012\" height=\"569\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You could see it in his face, but I asked anyway, are you happy with the way \u2018TEN\u2019 turned out?<br><strong>\u201cI think it\u2019s ten times better than all my other albums combined. That\u2019s how I feel about this record. I\u2019ve just got a really good feeling about this one. I always try to make every record my best record&#8230;I\u2019ve been building my whole life and I used to say every house is my best house because everything I\u2019ve learned from everything I\u2019ve done till that point, I\u2019ve put into the latest one. And that\u2019s the same way I feel about records.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What gives \u2018Ten\u2019 that feel for you?<br><strong>\u201cI wrote all thirteen songs on the record and I feel my writing just stepped up. I wrote some songs that I really started to think about things and how I wanted to present them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You recorded the album in Nashville? <br><strong>\u201cYeah, Chuck Ainlay is to me, one of the greatest producers. Years ago I looked up the top producers in Nashville and I kept coming back to Chuck Ainlay and I kept seeing that name. And I reached out to him and he wrote back to me and he was a nice guy, and a lot of people aren\u2019t like that. I was playing the City Winery or something and told him I was playing and he said, \u2018Man, I\u2019ll come check you out.\u2019 And he did! After he saw me play he said, \u2018If you ever want to do an album, you call me, Albert.\u2019 So Covid hit and I called him and said, \u2018Hey Chuck, I\u2019m thinking about doing an album, would you be interested?\u2019 He said, \u2018I\u2019m not really busy because of Covid, so why don\u2019t you come down and we\u2019ll do it.\u2019 He brought in all these players and said we\u2019re gonna\u2019 get Peter Frampton\u2019s studio and I\u2019m like&#8230;Peter Frampton\u2019s Studio? He brought in Greg Morrow (Steve Earle, Billy Gibbons, Don Henley) on drums, Glen Worf (Mark Knopfler) on bass, Rob McNelley on guitar whose one of the greatest guitarists I\u2019ve ever gotten to talk to, never mind play with and then, Michael Rojas on piano and keyboards. The second day in, my phone rings and I\u2019m standing in the studio and Peter Frampton\u2019s got all his guitars around you know, and I\u2019m looking at his SG that he used on Humble Pie&#8230;the phone rings and its Vince Gill. I\u2019m stunned; I\u2019m talking to Vince Gill! I said, \u2018Vince, I\u2019m standing in Peter Frampton\u2019s Studio and I\u2019m looking at Peter Frampton\u2019s guitars that he used on Humble Pie, and I\u2019m talking to Vince Gill!\u2019 Vince says, \u2018Watch what you wish for, buddy! I\u2019d love to help you out on the record if you can find a song for me.\u2019 It was just crazy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">\u201cI love the blues, don\u2019t get me wrong. But I\u2019ve got a lot of country influence and I\u2019ve got gospel in me, you\u2019ll hear every shade of Albert on this new record.\u201d <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8212;<em>&#8211; Albert Cummings<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ve always said that Stevie Ray Vaughan was a major influence; what has he meant to you as a player? <br><strong>\u201cWell&#8230; Everything! Still to this day&#8230; Everything! I recently did an interview with the editor of Guitar Player Magazine and Stevie Ray came up. And he used the best terminology I\u2019ve ever heard. He said SRV was just relentless. And I said that\u2019s the perfect word for him, he never let up. You didn\u2019t get a break with him; he was just going to let you have it! And that was inspiring to me; I need to be more relentless.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FullBand-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FullBand-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FullBand-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FullBand-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FullBand-850x638.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FullBand.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Albert Cummings Band &#8211; Coach House San Juan Capistrano. Photo: Yachiyo Mattox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Incredibly, early in your career you experienced support from those closest to Stevie Ray. Tell us<br>a little about your second album, \u2018From the Heart\u2019?<br><strong>\u201cIt was my second album but my first studio album.\u201d<\/strong> Albert nods. <strong>\u201cDouble Trouble! And talk about a scary experience. To me, Tommy Shannon is the best bass player that\u2019s ever lived and he and I have become best friends since we first worked together. Tommy and Chris (Layton) both took me under their wing. The name of that album was \u2018From the Heart\u2019 and that came from halfway through the record. While we were recording it, they told me I had \u2018red light fever,\u2019 so every time the record light would come on, I\u2019d tense up. So, I\u2019m a guitarist with maybe 100 gigs under my belt&#8230;tops! I\u2019m in the studio with DOUBLE TROUBLE! And they\u2019d say \u2018who\u2019s your idols, who\u2019d you listen to?\u2019 I said \u2018you guys!\u2019 (laughing) So they took me in one night, I was having a tough time and I asked what do you think Stevie would tell me to do? And they said, \u2018he\u2019d tell you to play from the heart.\u2019 And that\u2019s what I got out of that. Ever since then I\u2019ve never worried about anything except being honest. I love the blues because blues is an expression of feelings, that\u2019s what music is to me. It\u2019s not how to play \u2018Mustang Sally\u2019 better than the next band. It\u2019s about what do you have, are you different, are you the same as everybody else?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People have written about you that you range from unbridled ferocity to deep soulfulness. <br>Albert smiles and says, <strong>\u201cMood Swings!\u201d<\/strong> (laughing<strong>) \u201cAsk my wife!\u201d<\/strong> (laughing)<strong> \u201cThat\u2019s what it is&#8230;feelings! How does it make you feel? Think about the song like you\u2019re an actor in a part. Think about the message in the song. Is it a happy song, don\u2019t play a sad solo. Is it a sad song, don\u2019t play a happy solo. The feeling of the song will tell you what to play.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you write, do you have a process? Do you write with your guitar? <br>\u201c<strong>Mostly with the guitar, but I have written things without a guitar. Just with a melody in my head. Then I get back and get the guitar and figure it out. I\u2019ve got too many syllables here; I\u2019ve got to change the phrasing. Sometimes I can have a song come out in five minutes, the bridge,<\/strong> <strong>chorus, the whole thing everything done. And then sometimes I\u2019ll write a verse and say, \u2018Man I really want to write that song&#8230; For years, I was too technically challenged to realize how valuable my phone is. It\u2019s always with me with a stupid record button and I\u2019ve forgotten more stuff! So now if I get an idea (he picks up his phone) this is the idea and this is what I\u2019m thinking. Then I\u2019ll go back and review it. Every time I pick up a guitar, I\u2019ll listen to the first thing that comes out of me. It\u2019s like the cream has come to the top and it\u2019s usually something new to me and I\u2019ll hit the record button, capture it and I don\u2019t have to worry about it. But when I\u2019m bored or on a plane, I\u2019ll go listen to that stuff again and discover, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s perfect for that phrase that I heard and then start connecting the dots. And that\u2019s what happened with this album. I think it was the second night in the studio, I went out to eat and I was in this bar eating a steak by myself and I had this idea for a song, \u2018Two Hands.\u2019 The hook line is \u2018every single little thing that I\u2019ve got, I got it with my own two hands.\u2019 And I wrote that song without a guitar, while I was eating dinner and I typed it into the phone. I brought it into the studio the next day; I got in there early and worked it out on the guitar and said, \u2018Hey guys, I wrote this song last night. And they\u2019re like, \u2018You wrote this last night?\u2019 Yeah, I want to try it. And it\u2019s one of my favorite songs on the album, because it\u2019s so spontaneous and it really relates to the working person.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"359\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/albert-circle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/albert-circle.jpg 359w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/albert-circle-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the moment and the spontaneity is one of the reasons I enjoy your \u2018live\u2019 shows.<strong> <\/strong><br><strong>\u201cRight&#8230;and the connection. I think there are two types of musicians, and this is blues, country or any type of music I don\u2019t care what it is, classical. There are creators and they create this music and come up with stuff that\u2019s never been done. And then there\u2019s performers, the performers perform what the creator\u2019s created. That\u2019s a cover band. I can only play Albert Cummings and if I do play somebody else\u2019s stuff it\u2019s gonna\u2019 sound like Albert Cummings playing it.\u201d <\/strong>(laughing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talk a little about opening for B.B. King. <br><strong>\u201cAbout the fourth or fifth show, it was in Morristown, New Jersey and I remember this distinctly, the place, the theater, the backstage area and how it happened. B.B.\u2019s whole entourage, they all wore tuxedos, very prim and proper, you didn\u2019t wear blue jeans on B.B.\u2019s opening stage, it was always class and respect. I had finished the show having opened up and there was some time between when the headliner goes on and Mr. Matthews came to see me and says, \u2018Mr. King wants to see you.\u2019 And he was very gruff and I was like \u2018Oh My God!\u2019 I\u2019m in trouble or I must have said something on stage, I must have done something wrong. And he walks me down the hallway and Mr. Matthews say\u2019s \u2018Get in there!\u2019 I opened the door and there sits Mr. King. And I hadn\u2019t been one-on-one with him yet and he says \u2018Sit down, Albert.\u2019 And it\u2019s just us and he says, \u2018I just want to tell you, how much I enjoy your playing. And how much I enjoy what you do with the audience. I\u2019ve been listening to your shows\u2019\u2026and on and on. And I blacked out, like an out-of-body experience\u2026Oh, my God! I wish I could remember everything.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After that we went down to Florida, and Mr. Matthews started coming out and joking around with me and the band, it was a table-turner and he let everybody know these guys are alright. I don\u2019t know if you knew, but the rule was after the show at the end of the night, if you wanted to say something to Mr. King, the opening act had to be last in line. Customers and fans came first and it makes total sense, right? So every night, I\u2019d wait in lines two hours long; others would say we\u2019re going out. I didn\u2019t care; I\u2019m staying here to greet Mr. King. And every night I\u2019d do that and they recognized that\u2026and HE saw that. And every night I\u2019d finish the show and wait for him to go on and stand side-stage and watch him. Because you\u2019re watching the greatest thing in the world as far as I\u2019m concerned. This was an opportunity you don\u2019t pass up. He will influence forever because of who he was.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album you released just prior to the pandemic, \u2018Believe\u2019 was produced by Jim Gaines at the<br>FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals.<strong> <\/strong><br><strong>\u201cJim and I are great friends and we\u2019ve done a lot of records together. Well, I\u2019ve only done 10; Jim\u2019s done hundreds probably\u2026from Steve Miller to Carlos Santana. So I called Jim and said I want to go to Muscle Shoals to do an album. Do you know anybody down there? He says, \u2018Albert, they got a certain sound down there.\u2019\u201d<\/strong> Cummings says in his best Memphis, Arkansas twang.<strong> \u201cI go, Yeah, I understand. He goes, \u2018It\u2019s kind of a soul place, really not a blues place.\u2019 I said I still want to do it, Jim. So he made some calls and got us into FAME.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don\u2019t seem to have any limitations; you\u2019re just as comfortable playing R&amp;B, rock, blues or<br>country riffs in your music. <br><strong>\u201cI think Double Trouble put me into the blues world, and I love the blues, don\u2019t get me wrong. But I\u2019ve got a lot of country influence and I\u2019ve got gospel in me, you\u2019ll hear every shade of Albert on this new record. You\u2019ll hear horn songs, you\u2019ll hear a gospel song called \u2018Meet the Man\u2019 on there, a song I wrote about my dad and his views on death. I wrote it the day he died, I wrote it that night. It\u2019s gospel. And then I do ballads and that shows in our crowds. I\u2019ve got 10 year old kids to sometimes 80 year olds coming to my show. A vast, variety of people because my music is a variety and this new album, that\u2019s why I\u2019m so excited about it, it\u2019s the first one where I\u2019ve let people see that. I went to Muscle Shoals literally because I couldn\u2019t get anybody to play my music. A lot of blues DJ\u2019s if they don\u2019t know you or the song you\u2019re playing; you\u2019re not going to get any airplay. I\u2019m not going to get on mainstream radio\u2026but this one might. This one might! I\u2019m just going to be true to myself and play my music. Let it fall where it falls.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other than writing and recording the new album, how\u2019s your pandemic? <br><strong>\u201cFor about a year and a half, we hadn\u2019t done anything. Then we went out for about six weeks in the mid-West, and a little bit here and there. I\u2019ve found every place you\u2019re playing, if you get half a house, you\u2019ve got a sold out show. And that\u2019s really what\u2019s happening with the whole world. And Christina and I are building our own house right now and just started.\u201d He smiles. \u201cI\u2019m making a guitar studio.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Drummer-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Drummer-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Drummer-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Drummer-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Drummer-104x74.jpg 104w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Drummer-850x600.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Drummer.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Warren Grant lights the candle. photo: Yachiyo Mattox.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This tour starts in Southern California, who\u2019s playing with you? <br><strong>\u201cScot Sutherland is playing bass. Scot started with Son Seals and plays a lot with Tommy Castro. He\u2019s played with everybody and anybody. He\u2019s been with me for four or five years now. Warren Grant is my drummer and he\u2019s been with me for almost ten years. Warren\u2019s a great guy and his dad played with B.B. King back in the day. Warren\u2019s originally from Houston but lives in New York City now.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What can fans expect from the tour? <br><strong>\u201cIf you see me tonight, you won\u2019t see the same thing tomorrow night. Every night\u2019s a different night; every night\u2019s a fresh night even if I play the same song. I remember talking to Tommy Shannon about Stevie because you hear a lot of live recordings of the same sets they did for a long time. But Tommy said every night was different. Same song but a completely different feel, different room, a different energy coming from the audience and I\u2019m a true believer, if you\u2019re thinkin\u2019\u2026you\u2019re stinkin\u2019! I don\u2019t use set lists. I walk on the stage with the pressure of not knowing what I\u2019m going to do. I\u2019ll let it come to me and people sometimes yell out at me and if I know it, I\u2019ll jump on it. Everything\u2019s always different for me, but I can promise you it\u2019s always from the heart. I\u2019ll always give you everything I can give. That\u2019s what you\u2019ll always get from an Albert show. You\u2019re paying good money to come see something, so I want you to see something you can\u2019t buy in a store. And that\u2019s literally what I try to do every time I play.\u201d<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albert says he\u2019s adding more dates to the current national tour, so get out for his \u2018live\u2019 show. Go to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/albertcummings.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/albertcummings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.albertcummings.com<\/a> for a location near you. And be sure to grab a copy of his latest album, \u2018TEN\u2019 when it drops in April. I think you\u2019ll be pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Cummings is full of surprises. He\u2019s been playing now for about a quarter of a century and his brand new album is scheduled for release in April. His credentials as a journeyman are legitimate and his followers will tell you, he\u2019s known for his \u2018live\u2019 shows. Cummings has been described by journalists and fans alike, as a guitarist of \u2018unbridled ferocity\u2019 who also possesses \u2018deep soulfulness.\u2019 Albert just grins. \u201cMood Swings!\u201d (laughing) \u201cAsk my wife!\u201d (laughing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6177,6183,6180,6182,2118,6181,6178,6184,6179,6185],"class_list":["post-29653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-chuck-ainlay","tag-double-trouble","tag-frampton","tag-guitar-magazine","tag-home_page","tag-knopfler","tag-mood-swings","tag-muscle-shoals","tag-ten","tag-tommy-castro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In the Moment With Albert Cummings - Traveling Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/in-the-moment-with-albert-cummings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In the Moment With Albert Cummings - Traveling Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Albert Cummings is full of surprises. 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