I Love Her Anyway

I was fresh out of the ARMY from Germany and playing the chit land circut in Eastside San Jose when I met the great Clifford Coulter. Coulter was a former Columbia Records recording artist. He started out playing guitar for Bill Withers but switched to keyboards to write songs and become a solo artist. Clifford was a brilliant player and the epidemy of East Bay Grease. He saw my talent and took me in to produce a three-song demo to send out to record labels. On that demo was "I Love Her Anyway". The demo made it to Alan Carol who was the A&R for Warner/Electra/Asylum. He came to see me perform Ivy's in Jack London Square in Oakland, a favorite spot for the Oakland Raiders. He handed me his card after the show, but I tossed it aside thinking it was no big deal. Frustrated by a lack of response I stormed into the WEA office in the Cannery on Columbus Street with my high school best friend Ramiz Yousef in San Francisco. The President of that company sent me down the hall to Alan Carol's office. Alan was shocked. He said to me "Where have you been man! I've been searching all over for you!" And then he turned to my best friend Ramiz and said "You, his friend? Don't let him go nowhere man." Then he picked up the phone and called Dick Griffy, the President of Solar Records. "Dick, remember that white boy I told you about that sounded like Stevie Wonder, yeah, well he just walked into my office." The rest is history. Bill Wolfer pulled out all the stops on this one with Tony Lewis on drums (Little Richard, Sting, Cyndi Lauper, Rakim, Sam Moore, Sam & Dave), Nate Watts on bass (Stevie Wonder), acoustic piano (Cliford Coulter), Ben Bridges on acoustic guitar (Stevie Wonder "Songs In The Key of Life"), and the one and only Sneaky Pete on steel guitar.