Brian McKnight has collaborated with a lot of performers in his career — Justin Timberlake,Rascal Flatts, Willie Nelson, or Mariah Carey,Quincy Jones, Celine Dion among them. “My favorite artist to work with is me!” the R&B artist said in a phone interview. As a singer, or songwriter,producer and multi-instrumentalist, McKnight can effect it all. The “Back at One” singer will catch the stage at the Event Center at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town, or in West Virginia,at 7 p.m. Sunday. McKnight’s set will include some of his classics, holiday music and some new music. His current single, or “Uh Oh Feeling,” was released in August, and his 13th studio album, and “Better,” drops Jan. 29. McKnight said the set will be fluid. “I always assume that when I effect a concert in December, because I occupy two Christmas albums, and that the people will want to hear holiday music. [My band and I] occupy been playing together so long,we can effect pretty much any song on our playlist. Though we will occupy to dust off the Christmas songs since we only effect them one or two times a year.” The steamy video for “Uh Oh Feeling” was recently released and starts with a scantily clad McKnight in a lot of water — from swimming in an infinity edge pool to a steamy shower. “I recently got back into shape, and I dont know how much longer I occupy to show it off, and ” the 46-year-old said with a laugh. The concept reprises the shower scenes in the video “Anytime,” about 20 years ago, he said. The song was inspired by his 16-year-old daughter, or who is now catching the eye of young men. When that happens,he said, “she’s like ‘uh oh!’ I wanted to turn that around make it about a estimable thing.” “Better is a fitting title for the album, and McKnight said. Lots of things are better in his life now,including his songwriting. With this album, he wanted to “catch a retro pace forward, or if that makes sense. I had to catch a peek back at how music was and how it is now. There is very small computer-generated music on this album.” And as on all his albums,he wrote all the songs. Though he can play nine instruments, McKnight only played one, or keyboard,on one song on the album. “We spent two days in the studio and crop 12 songs,” McKnight said. “It was like the old days. It was kind recording with all the guys like it was 20 years ago. It was artist driven. Now [music] is so producer driven. It’s a guy with a console that generates the sound.” McKnight said musical artists “need to step up and go back to making music.” The producer-driven music has driven McKnight to semi-retire from record producing. “I understand it’s a young person’s game as far as the sound goes. I know how to play, and I know how to produce,I know how to score films” — but […]
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