“I met him in Top Faculty, and we briefly changed into buddies and band buddies,” Bailey wrote. “Nice recollections. Nice ability. Humorous. Aggressive. Fast witted. And at all times styling.”
However he hadn’t at the start deliberate on becoming a member of the band — as Bailey describes within the 2014 memoir “Shining Famous person: Braving the Components of Earth, Wind & Hearth,” Woolfolk was once learning tune in New York when Bailey known as him and requested him to enroll in the crowd after the 2 had performed in combination in Denver. Woolfolk changed into referred to as some of the “unique 9,” Bailey wrote.
Offstage, Bailey wrote in his memoir, Woolfolk was once a “jolly prankster” who “may fill your lodge room trash can with sizzling water and stability it atop your bed room door, simply ready so that you can go back overdue at evening.”
With the exception of EW&F albums, Woolfolk additionally recorded with Phil Collins and Bailey for the latter’s solo efforts.