Brad Vickers & his Vestapolitans "Peace in my Time"

THE STORY of the making of this disc is bittersweet. Sweet first: Sweet, because the initial recording was the culmination of a great “mega session” that resulted in two of our acclaimed CDs, “Stuck With The Blues” and “Traveling Fool.” We had completed the last day of recording with an outstanding group of musicians and we were feeling great and proud of the work we had done. Our guest musicians, Bobby Radcliff and Matt Cowen had already left, but we thought we’d try just one more thing. Margey had this song and we decided to switch up instruments and give it a go. I jumped on bass, Arne Englund went to the piano, our producer, Dave Gross picked up a guitar, Margey Peters handled the vocals, and Jim Davis stayed on tenor sax, creating a supremely soulful sax solo that will surely stand for all time. The song was recorded in one take.

The bitter part is two-fold. The first is that—even to this day—the world is still rife with war and suffering. The second is more personal. Jim, our dear friend, and a brilliant collaborator on all of our recordings, passed away suddenly on the 30th of November 2022, of a brain aneurysm. Besides being a brilliant sax player, Jim was a humanitarian and peace advocate. Missing him, and with ever more conflicts raging world wide, we remembered that this track was “in the can.”
Dave Gross did some deep digging on old hard drives, and was able to unearth the song. We dedicate this recording in memory of Jim Davis with peace, love, respect, and gratitude.

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