and Hall & Oates – to do as much with him. In fact, save for Steve Holley playing drums, Sharon Little and Jazzfatnastees’ Mercedes Martinez singing backgrounds and a few friends collaborating on vocals; all the usic played on LIVIN’ IT is T-Bone and Mutlu. That reflects the intimacy of tracks like the tender plea of “Think It Over” and the bounce of “Upside.”


Once you got things nice and intimate, you can bring in your pals. Mutlu pulled in old friends Amos Lee, who co-wrote and sang on “Make It There,” and G. Love, who recorded his vocals and harmonica on “Shaky Ground” in-between dropping his kid at school and leaving for his tour, as well as new pal Raheem De Vaughn who duets with Mutlu on the caramel- coated “In Your Heart,” LIVIN’ IT’s closer.


Then there’s Daryl Hall who sang with Mutlu on the Philly-cream- cheese smooth, “See What It Brings”.


“Hall & Oates were a huge influence; everything they did throughout the 70s in particular,” says Mutlu of the cosmic connection between them. “In the same way we had that immediate musical and personal connection what with both of us growing up in Philly, he seemed to have an immediate connection with my song.” It shows.


Multu doesn’t need collaborators to bring out the misty moods and slippery sunshine of his own voice. While “Hello Morning” radiates that first feeling of having to make sense of a bad situation through its aching-to-quaking


lullaby vocals,


“Think It Over” is his blessed out appreciation of all those things you have rather than all those things you want.


But it’s the title track (co-written with producer/ songwriter Ojike) that radiates all that it is Mutlu something that sends forth nothing but the positive in its ebullient vocals and brightly jazzy melody. “It’s my summer song – always stay up, never get down,” says Mutlu.


“Happiness will return again.”


With Mutlu’s LIVIN’ IT around, happiness will never leave you.


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