I slowed the tempo some, reworked a few chorus lines, got my hands dirty and spent many days in the studio experimenting until it felt just right. The long and short of it is it took three separate and complete versions to finally land on the one that I was satisfied with. Turns out it wasn’t as easy as simply picking up where I left off in the late seventies.
“I had always wanted to re-record “The River Must Flow”, a song on my Brother to Brother record. In light of it never having been released in North America, we decided that a re-mastered version, along with adding some new recordings might indeed be a good thing to do.” “Ten years after its release, Claude Villani, president of SRG Records, gave me a shout one day, telling me how much he appreciated and enjoyed listening to A Good Thing. Many of these musicians would eventually contribute to the recording.” In 20 I rehearsed and played many music rooms across Europe with my new Dutch friends, ironing out the wrinkles of all the freshly written tunes. After a few months I had finally completed enough material for an entire album. Putting music to words made for a very different outcome, as compared to my usual process of doing just the opposite. Fifty or so poems suddenly leapt out of my head-some of which I thought would be perfect set to song form. I began to fill the quiet days by putting my thoughts and emotions to paper. “As nature hates a vacuum, after a couple of months, something snapped.
I soon became somewhat of a night owl, frequenting clubs and music rooms, listening to as many Dutch musicians as I could.” At first, I wasn’t much drawn to the piano and guitar that kept constantly staring at me. The gray autumn days were lonely, long and silent-and that was exactly what I needed. I had decided to remain in the Netherlands for as long as it would take to flesh out something that had been brewing inside of me. “It was a cold, drizzly morning when I arrived at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
Gino Vannelli recollects the making of the original album and shares his thoughts about the new version: Jazz multi-instrumentalist Mike Phillips is Gino’s guest soloist on “Eye On You”.Īfter seventeen albums and two hundred songs, dropping himself off seven thousand miles away from home into an apartment furnished with only a couch, bed, piano, guitar and a computer, Gino began the process of creating one of his most unique works, to be complied on an album called, A Good Thing. Gino went back into the studio, remastered, and reimagined the 9 originals songs and added 3 new songs, including his classic “The River Must Flow” that features Brian McKnight. Gino Vannelli’s (More Of) A Good Thing is part new album and part re-issue of the 2009 release A Good Thing.
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