Sometimes when I listen to music, I can almost hear the sheer joy artists feel while creating together. “That’s My Story,” from New York duo musclecars (Brandon Weems & Craig Handfield), Atlanta mainstay Roland Clark, and Dominican-American producer Toribio (Cesar Toribio), is one of those records.
It opens like a dialogue between jazz and Latin drums, before Roland Clark’s svelte vocal glides in. He laments a string of fleeting romances his heart was never really in, that have left his soul shattered like glass. But now, he’s ready to turn the page and find something true.
For the uninitiated, Roland Clark is an admired producer and vocalist whose CV includes collaborations with Armand Van Helden, Katy Perry, Louie Vega, and plenty more. So it’s no surprise that the musclecars boys were pinching themselves at the chance to work with him on a track. As Craig shares:
