The 47-year-old also foresees that maybe one day he won’t belong just to his
 fans or to his daughter, whom he calls his best friend, but maybe he’ll hook up
 with the right woman: “I am single and open and waiting,” he says with a hint 
of devilishness.

“All of my albums are all
 over the place musically. I have a difficult time making a record and staying 
on one path,” he says. His enviable 
resolve and calm shape his life as well as his music. “I just do what I feel, and 
it just comes out.”

Black and White America releases on August 30. Check out The Grio’s review of the album HERE.

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