Live Wire - Commentary

How about that? "Prove you wrong", that is off of sheryl Crow's new album

Threads which we are talking to Sheryl about today

17 songs that she's gonna give us all the inside scoops and behind the scenes

Stories about. And this next one, man, we're about to get into some Blues

Tell me about Live Wire with you, Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples

Live Wire actually was inspired by The Staples singers

I mean, that kind of, "I'll take you there", it's very swampy and

Jeff Trattner wrote that actually with Mavis in mind

Like, what would we write if we were gonna have Mavis Staples coming on

And sing on something. And I sent it to her and she just was like

"Girl, I'ma make a full outta that song" and she did and we as Bannie Raitt

To be on it really for the same reason. I mean, this is a woman who is

Steeps in the Blues, I went to her when I was like 17 years old in St. Louis, Missouri

I'd never seen a woman play slag guitar before, really, I'd never seen a woman

Staying up there and just like, the guitar was just and extension of her

I mean, you've seen that with men. For me, it was just a giant motivating factor

Of my picking up of a guitar and learning to play it

And she's like the daughter of Mavis, I mean, they're very close

And so, the three of us getting to do this together, for me, it was like heaven

That is so cool, can you imagine you are watching somebody on stage when you

Are 17 just dreaming about being able to play guitar like they do

And then you are in a recording studio with them, making this song

Here is Sheryl Crow with Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples, Live Wire

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