Ebony Alleyne - All For Nothing

All of Ebony's growing fanbase will be delighted by another video from her much acclaimed album, "Never Look Back", on Expansion Records. It's a whole glorious brand new day for Ebony. Her wonderful album is out on Expansion, along with this wistful moody number which I have adored since the day we wrote it. Ebony was first signed to a major label in 2002. I was brought in to produce her entire album. We did a magnificent album of generic live "real" smooth sophisticated soul music, with a huge orchestra (sixty strings, thirty brass), with a Burt Bacharach/Dionne Warwick flavour overall, and this was well before Norah Jones, Joss Stone, Corinne Bailey Rae, and most particularly Amy Winehouse, all hit with basically the same thing. The Ebony album was utterly utterly wonderful, and I was so proud of it. It took a year and a half to make, and the legendary head of A&R, Muff Winwood, oversaw it personally. "Walk Away And Never Look Back", was the first song we recorded. We introduced her to the soul scene by reactivating the old classic Okeh label, owned by Sony, and pressing up tiny limited editions of three all different singles on the Okeh label on seven inch vinyl. Everything looked wonderful and rosy, but suddenly Ebony was set free without a record being released. Now years later, along with 2007 material, justice finally gets served, and the world gets to hear what I consider to be my finest hour musically.