Word: albums
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...self-produced this album, but you worked very closely with Ryan Francesconi, who arranged the songs, and Neal Morgan who did the percussion. How much input did they have? They were there from the beginning. Ryan and Neal came to my house and we crawled through the songs bar by bar. We talked a lot about meaning and mood and thematic stuff, going into some awkward realms of discussions. I find it awkward to talk about song meaning. The way we got around that awkwardness was for Ryan to interview me. Somewhere he must have some very incriminating piles...
...separate ways and worked on our parts for a few months. Then we all went to this cabin in Big Sur to play together. I always regret how much better songs sound after I tour them. You play them for six months and then wish you could make the album again cause they sound so much better. I wanted to get a little of that effect for the record...
What did you do for those two months? It was completely bizarre. I'd recorded all of the piano and the harp. I wanted to finish the album. It was like, "Oh, come on." It was really scary for me - also bizarre and depressing. This is definitely stating the obvious here, but you feel very isolated when you can't talk to people...
...idea of charity records began with the Beatles. Or, rather, with some Beatles. Following the breakup of the Fab Four, George Harrison helped organize 1971's Concert for Bangladesh, the first star-studded event of its kind. Proceeds from the concert's live triple album went to UNICEF. Paul McCartney followed suit with a 1979 collaboration, cheekily dubbed Rockestra, for the victims of Pol Pot's purges in Cambodia. The first certified charity smash didn't arrive, however, until 1984, when Band Aid--a British and Irish supergroup that included Sting, Bono and George Michael--recorded "Do They Know...
...have an aria album that's coming up on Aretha's Records. I'm working on one right now. And I'm also going to sing a little Mozart. I love Puccini, but I'm going to do a little Mozart on this dual offering that Condoleezza Rice and I will be doing over the summer for our favorite charities. It's a bipartisan effort...