The album called The Harlem Experiment lives up to its name, with a sometimes-unexpected match of artists and songs to evoke the musical hotbed of New York's famously diverse neighborhood.
Muscle Shoals seemed an unlikely place for a celebrity crowd: the nicest hotel was a Holiday Inn, and sometimes the area's studios would put artists up in mobile homes at the local trailer park.
Sometimes I believe I do take a more journalistic approach, interviewing developers or businessmen or artists about their work, or piecing together a story from past events and giving it context and analysis.