Cyril NEville on cowbell, Brian Blade on drums.

co written w Daniel Lanois

heavy New Orleans vibes!

"“He would come in here and just play the game. We weren’t even talking about doing music,” Pavlovich recounted. “When D’Angelo comes through, he shows up at midnight, and he’s playing the game until four in the morning. Each time he was just like, ‘it’s incredible.’ It just blows his mind. He’s such a fan. I have never seen someone that excited.”

It turns out that Unshaken was an amalgamation of a chorus from Lanois’ co-writer, Rocco DeLuca, and “a New Orleans groove” that consisted of “a percussion track with Brian Blade on the drums and Cyril playing cowbell.

“I fished that out, tied the ‘Unshaken’ chorus on top of it, and then D’Angelo loved what he heard. He’s a great Fender Rhodes player. He played that, I did the guitar, we sang the chorus together as we played the instruments over that rhythm track.”

https://www.vg247.com/2019/01/06/dangelos-unshaken-gets-official-release/