Flying Blind

I could listen all day to Sheryl Crow tell stories

About the people she worked with on her new album, Threads

And we're so lucky to have her in the studio with us today

Walking us through this entire album I mean

She knows all the stories behind writing them

And getting the people in the studio to perform and

This is actually a fun one because this is actually a song that

You wrote with Chris Stapleton and ended up singing with James Taylor

So, tell me about Flying Blind

Flying Blind is a song I wrote with Chris Stapleton

We've written quite a lot together, in fact, we're getting ready to write again

We're going to write for his record, and he's one of my favorite people to write with

I've written with more people since I've lived in Nashville but I really love

I love writing with my buddy Jeff, and I love writing with Chris Stapleton

He's so talented, and he has his own voice, and he's willing to try anything

He has no ego about it you know, you throw something out, and we get there

So we had this song called Flying Blind, and we'd written it for the last record

And I didn't wind up doing it because I pretty much completed the record and

I was thinking about James Taylor because he'd been such a huge influence on me

And, you know, my earliest memories of listening to records were of listening to Mud Slide Slim

And the Blue Horizon, laying on the carpeting, you know, listening next to the speaker of the Magnavox

Learning all his stuff on the piano and so I had this song, and I called Chris and said

"Hey, I want to pitch this to James Taylor," and so I sent it to James, and, oh, man, you talk about a highlight

Just hearing him on it and having this song I wrote with Chris

And Chris was so excited, and it just was a real joy

I don't know if I've ever seen Chris Stapleton excited

But I think I'd be excited, too, if James Taylor sang one of my songs

Here he is with Sheryl Crow it's Flying Blind

And you'll find it on her new album, Threads, which is available now