So, that's the feeling you get from dee's new single "Summer Cruise." That feeling of driving down the highway with windows open, the air blowing, the sun shining and the music sounding just perfect for the "cruise."

"I was talking to my son, and I asked him, ‘What can I do to promote the single?' and he said, ‘A video'," dee said about how the high-spirited music video came to be. "...I wanted to do a video that represented the Woodard Dream Cruise with all the cars. To represent a good time...summertime. The winters here are brutal...but in the summer....the river front comes to life."

The single is from his upcoming Innervision Records' album release, "Living the Good Life." The single has assistance from Grammy winning bass player Mel Brown, drummer Michael White, Blake Aaron on rhythm guitar, Michael Parlett on sax, and Carnell Harrell on keyboard. The album will be his seventh.

"All the musicians I picked because I've worked with them in the past," the Detroit native pointed out when I asked.

Blake Aaron also wrote and produced "Summer Cruise." Aaron is a nine-time #1 Billboard chart-topper. In addition, dee brown has 13-time Grammy nominated Tyries Rolfe arranging the strings.

"The song is written by Blake Aaron my label mate," dee Brown pointed out as we continued to talk about the single. "He brought the melody...I wanted that cruise feel, to represent Detroit."

Brown has released six albums since his solo debut. He streams on Spotify at five million and as a musician he has shared the stage with George Benson, Al Jarreau, Stephanie Mills, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair, Paul Brown, The Ohio Players, Najee, Jeffrey Osborne, and many more.

"I want to give a shout-out to Eastman Guitars," he said.

I asked if they made a signature guitar for him and he said, "No, they ‘endorse' me...they are endorsing my performance dates until the end of the year!"  www.Innervisionrecords.com www.deeBrownJazz.com

Eugene told me about his close encounter with death and his miraculous year-long recovery after open-heart surgery. Then after the surgery, connecting his experience with the legendary phoenix bird

"I had to pinch myself. He gifted me with this spiritual awaking," he continued about his journey to this new album. "I put 14 tattoos (of the Phoenix) on me, to remind me. I knew the album would be called the phoenix, and I knew all the song titles."

"I brought in Paul Brown. I had worked with him for 20 years and it came out so easy....all the emotions...," Groove said.

"The Phoenix" project is released on the Shanachie Entertainment imprint. Home of Grammy Award winning Norman Brown, BET Award winning KeKe Wyatt, and the late three-time Grammy nominated Angie Stone. The 12-time Billboard #1 chart-topper then explained his ordeal that transformed him into The Phoenix.

"The last time I played live was in 2022. I had to leave the stage because I had no energy," Eugene stated. "I struggled for a year with no energy. I went to the doctor...they said maybe you are anxious. Two years after that I started recording in June 2024. By the end of June, I had written everything except the sax. I couldn't play the horn I had no energy. The doctors didn't know what was wrong. Then I passed out (and they discovered) my cardio-value in the back was failing, which is why they couldn't see it. I would have had a stroke or heart attack. I went through three weeks of open-heart surgery and a yearlong recovery."

Eugene Groove said that after his recovery is when he was able to write his sax parts to the album and the end-product is the inspirational "The Phoenix". The album, aside from two-time Grammy Award winning Paul on guitar, has assistance from three-time Grammy Award winning Corney Mims on bass, and Grammy Award nominated Tracy Carter on keyboard. In addition, he has drummer Trevor Lawrence, Jr., percussionist Lenny Castro and guitarist Juba Smith.

Aside from his solo career as a saxophonist Eugene Groove has collaborated as a musician with Tina Turner, Tower of Power, Aaron Neville, The Eurythmics, Huey Lewis and Joe Crocker.  www.EugeneGroove.com www.Shanachie.com

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