Ghanaian Encounters: Rolling Stone (May 28, 1981)

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by WalkAThinLine.

If I'm not mistaken, Fleetwood may have said in one of his memoirs that he planned to follow up The Visitor with an album recorded in Brazil

Yes. I would have really liked to hear that album, I love brazilian rhythms. My imagination runs wild supposing that Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso or Simone were on that record.


The original idea had been to follow up The Visitor with a Brazilian project. George Hawkins would go to Rio with me, and we'd record with the cream of Brazilian musicians. To this end we bought a portable studio, which we instead set up at the Blue Whale when the South American project was scrapped. Then I got a little band together, with George on bass, Steve Ross (a friend of Richard's) on guitar, and Billy Burnette doing the vocals.