He wrote the
heartbroken ballad “I Lied” with legend Smokey Robinson.
There is no telling where your career will take you when it
spans five decades, but jazz/R&B keyboardist David Garfield never imagined
that he’d hit the country charts let alone for a song that he wrote with Motown
icon Smokey Robinson. “I Lied,” the power pop ballad that they penned, has
reached No. 60 on the Music Row singles chart and gained New & Active
status on the Billboard Indicator chart. The accompanying video for the track
featuring vocalist J. Paris has been added to the playlist at the Heartland
Network, “the beating pulse of country music for the nation” reaching over 22
million households.
“It’s
amazing and we are thrilled to be receiving a lot of country airplay. Smokey
and I wrote ‘I Lied’ with a female singer in mind. It was the second tune we
wrote together, and it was just sitting in the archives. It hadn’t been
recorded. When I began work on (my current project) ‘Outside the Box,’ I went
to Nashville to track the song after hearing a country inflection in the
singer’s voice when she demoed it for me here in LA. It was always an
R&B/pop song, a product of my relationship with Smokey. He’s a poet,
masterful with his lyrics. When we started writing it, it was like a
contemporary pop (song) with a little R&B influence. Like all the other
stuff we’ve been working on, very traditional and fresh at the same time, but
nothing in the world of country,” said Garfield, a St. Louis native who has
been long been anchored in Los Angeles. “These songs have stories, that’s the
thing. ‘I Lied’ has such an amazing story to it.”
Robinson
wrote the storied lyrics and sweeping melody lines for “I Lied.” “When I write,
let me write something that’s going to just mean something for as long as there
are people. If I can possibly do it, that’s what I want to do,” said the Rock
and Roll Hall of Famer, Grammy winner and member of the Songwriter’s Hall of
Fame.
Garfield and
Robinson first wrote together when composing “One Like You” for George Benson’s
2009 album, “Songs and Stories.” That same year, Garfield, who serves as
Benson’s longtime music director, performed on Robinson’s “Time Flies When
You’re Having Fun” disc.
“I Lied”
will also appear on Garfield’s “Vox Outside the Box,” part of his ambitious
multivolume “Outside the Box” collection showcasing the prolific keyboardist’s
collaborations with jazz, R&B, rock and pop luminaries. The first set,
“Jazz Outside the Box,” dropped March 23 on Garfield’s Creatchy Records imprint
and is his first straight-ahead jazz outing. The first two singles from
“Jamming Outside the Box” – “Go Home” and “Jamming” – hit the Billboard Smooth
Jazz Songs chart with the former peaking at No. 2 and the latter currently
climbing the Top 20. “Jamming Outside the Box” is slated for release this
summer.
To watch
Garfield and Robinson discuss “I Lied,” click https://bit.ly/2I3iZEi.
To view the
“I Lied” video, click https://bit.ly/2BolVeF.
For more
information, please visit www.DavidGarfield.com.
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