Lonely Alone

I hope you're enjoying the Sheryl Crow thread's album release special

And when you look at the people on this album

It is just so incredible, and you have to think about the fact that they all agreed to participate

Because they respect Sheryl as an artist, they like her as a person

So when she asked, they said, "Yes"

And one guy that said yes, and she's actually had a chance to work with him a lot in her life, is Willie Nelson

So let's talk about "Lonely Alone"

Lonely Alone is a song that I wrote with Willie in mind

And I called up my buddy Shane McAnally, I said, "I wanna write a song that is worthy of Willie Nelson"

Which, I think is, almost impossible

He's written some of the greatest songs ever written

And I think people don't realize that he's a writer that he's had songs

He's had hits in every genre

He's had jazz songs, blues songs, country songs, rock songs that have made it on the charts in every genre

I mean, he's just amazing and he's still out there doing it

And he's also been an unbelievable friend to me and he's also been, really, my favorite duet partner for years

So much so, that when I was going through LAX coming from Europe and going through Customs and hoping they weren't gonna pick me

I got picked and I thought they were gonna go through my luggage

But instead the guy said, "Can I give you some advice? I think you're working with Willie Nelson a little too much"

So, I was like, "I've made it, Willie!"

Anyway, we wrote this song called "Lonely Alone" and it's very much like a Willie Nelson song

It's about being lonely in a bar and not wanting to be alone and just saying

"Hey, it doesn't have to last forever, but we don't have to be lonely alone"

And he just killed it, he just brought his "willieness" to it and Mickie Raphael played on it and it just gives it that great Willie Nelson sound

I love it! His "willieness"

You'll hear it on this one

This is "Lonely Alone", brand new from Sheryl Crow on Big Machine Radio