Written by Victor Wooten / VixLix music ASCAP

Victor Wooten: Bass (3 tracks), Steel string Guitar, Cello
Joseph Wooten: Acoustic Piano, Keyboards
Regi Wooten: Nylon String Guitar
JD Blair: Drums
Roger "Rock" Williams: Soprano Sax
Strings: Violins: Buddy Spicher, Billy Contreras, Kurt Storey;
                 Cellos: Michael Kott, David Blazer, and Victor Wooten

Recorded by Kurt Storey at Masterlink Studio
in Nashville, TN on 1-12-99

This song means so much to me. Let me tell u why. It was the day before recording was supposed to start. I had just gotten off of the road so I brought my bass over to my good friend Joe Compito's house. He would always touch up my basses for me whenever I needed him to. While he was working on my bass I realized that I didn't have any pictures of him on my web site. I went to the car and got my digital camera (which I just happened to have with me). I took 2 pictures of Joe while he was working on my bass. These turned out to be the last two pictures of him taken while he was alive. Joe died later that night from a brain aneurysm. He was 39.

I was in the studio recording this song when I got the phone call. I told the lady on the phone that I had just been at Joe's house. She informed me that I was the last person to see him alive. I'm so glad that we ended our visit with a hug like we always do. Joe told me that he had a headache and was going to relax for a while. What would I have done different if I had known? I now think about that with every person and everything I come in contact with. "This may be the last time we see each other. What do I want to say? What do I want to do? What am I waiting for???"

A few weeks earlier I was visiting Joe when this melody popped into my head. I kept humming it in the same key all the way home and then immediately recorded a demo of it. I called Joe on the phone and told him about the song. A couple of days later I played it for him telling him that this was the song that had come to me after our last visit. He jokingly (I think) asked me if I was going to name it after him. The only title that had come to me at that time was "the Journey" so I told him, "maybe, I don't know". Funny how life works.

Well, this is that song, inspired by Joe Compito. Joe's Journey

I believe that we all have a song in our hearts for everyone that we come in contact with. How beautiful the world could be if we would just allow that song to play. How about it! Talk!Listen!Play!Feel!Give!Receive!Love!Live!and Love some more! How much time is left?

Basses:

• Compito 5-string fretless
• Fodera Tenor 4-string bass.

Notes:

• Kurt Storey actually played violin on this song and not "Resolution".
• Billy Contreras was only 14 when he played on this song
• "Rock" played great even though it was very cold in the studio.

Things 2 Listen 4:

• Can u hear the difference between Regi and me playing guitar? (Hint:) Regi uses a pick and I use my fingers.
• Joseph on Piano; most people didn't know that he could play like this.