![]() ![]() ![]() I realized pretty instantly that the business as I knew it had changed. “I had some demos of new songs,” Cherry recalls, “and with those I took the pulse of the people around me. Eager to return to the scene, and armed with a growing arsenal of compelling new material, Cherry decided not to wait for a label’s blessing to begin recording. The digital revolution had confounded the industry’s old guard, and had made the means of production and distribution more accessible to musicians than ever before. In the years leading up to the release of “Can’t Get Enough”, available during autumn 2012 via Universal, the wholesale fragmentation of the record label-driven system that Cherry had become accustomed to was well underway. “During the time I was away,” he continues, “my life had changed completely. “It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long, but when I sit down to figure it out, I’m amazed by just how much time has passed. “The idea that time is relative makes more sense than ever to me now,” he explains. “I was coming off of a lot of touring and promotion in support of my third record, and I could feel myself starting to burn out.” Reemerging nearly seven years later from his self-imposed exile, Cherry found himself with a new perspective, surveying a deeply altered landscape. “It was just time to step away for a while,” reflects Eagle-Eye Cherry thoughtfully from his home in Stockholm, Sweden.
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