“The best songs I've ever written, I never wrote. They wrote themselves. The best show I ever played, played itself and had little to do with me or talent. To me, those things come from the power of an honest moment, and I guess I'm trying to live in that power and not force life to cough up what I want.”
JJ Grey recorded his first seven albums with Fog City producer Dan Prothero, each time returning to JJ’s home territory of Jacksonville, stopping by Chowder Ted’s for lunch and proceeding south to Retrophonics Studios in St Augustine, Florida. Here’s a retrospective look at what they’ve made together: