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The Call

July 24, 2023

Album: Soundtrack For A Film Without Pictures
By Frank Swart
Label: Need To Know
Released: 2023
Duration: 3:50

Derrek Phillips

Bill Withers. The Police. Rick James. Earth, Wind, and Fire. Led Zeppelin. Prince.

These were some of the first words I learned after the usual “Mama” and “Dada”.  Music was just as common than food in my childhood home. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I was heavily indoctrinated by the sounds of Tower of Power, Journey, Sly and the Family Stone, Metallica, Tony! Toni! Tone! and Digital Underground. Thanks to my parents and older brothers, I developed an early obsession for music.

This obsession led to years in local bands, youth and community orchestras and the Concord Blue Devils drum and bugle corps. Lessons with Marc Van Wageningen and the late, great Tony Williams would soon follow. This same obsession took me to the East Coast to pursue a bachelor’s degree at William Paterson University in New Jersey. After years spent getting my career started in the New York jazz scene, I decided to head south and focus on the well-rounded Nashville scene.