there were a lot of breaks on the way. I did tours with Cinderella, I think about half a dozen and they would take me away for 4-5 months at a time. That was actually cool as it enabled me to come back to things with a great objectivity and with Pro-Tools I could just leave it for five months and come back to it and be right where I was. So the approach was different and it was a labour of love for me, I worked with my wife Savannah on it and a great producer here in Nashville called Chuck Turner and we just pushed things along until we were happy with it and the next thing you know it’s ten years later.
end there are some things about my voice that are better now than when I was hit with the problem. I still struggle sometimes, but when everything is firing right it feels better because I’ve learned a lot about how to sing. When I had to write songs for our last Cinderella album ‘Still Climbing’ I basically had no voice, so I had to think about my range a lot then.
FM: You’re originally from Philadelphia but live in Nashville now, was it a musical decision to move home? TK: Well I’ve been here since 1997, but the thing that attracted to me was the songwriting, I came to get a shot in the arm and some fresh blood and worked with some great songwriters here and loved the scene and the creativity and the insane amount of talent per square inch. Nashville is just crazy for that. From musicians to engineers to songwriters to studios and the inspiration here is incredible. My priorities have always been about creating the best music I can. I can always fly to New York or La and play it to people.
FM: YouR voice seems really relaxed on this record, was that as A result of getting older or were the problems you had related to that? TK: Well I actually had a partial FM: How has it been playing the paralysis of one of my vocal chords new stuff live? in the early 90’s, and there’s no cure TK: Well we did some shows (with the for it. Most people who it happens to, basically they don’t sing again. My only chance was to retrain my voice and teach that vocal chord to meet the other one and perform symmetrically. First I was working with speech pathologists just to work on speech and then I developed and start working with vocal coaches on my singing. It’s not an exact science, but I’ve had so much voice training from some of the best coaches for years relentlessly, every day to overcome this problem. In the
new solo band) months ahead of the release just to get the ball rolling and to give the fans an early preview. We did a set of new songs and some of the older Cinderella songs acoustically with some stories about they came about so was a real mixture, we’ll be back out on the road again. It’s been great, I love touring, there’s no better feeling than just going out and walking on a stage to play your music live. It’s just a pure moment, in the studio sometimes it can be a little torturous because you’re trying