And this one here is not about not using drugs or alcohol or whatever you're addicted to, it's about if you let that slip happen, it can just drag you down. So I had written another song called 'Feeling of Falling,' I missed that feeling of falling, falling over the ledge, which is also about what it's like to be in recovery. But you don't even have to be in recovery to know that the side of you that wants you to stay up later than you should and have another piece of pie, or tell a white lie about why you didn't answer someone's email sooner, all those little ways that our character defaults come up and give us a raspberry while we're trying to be a good, balanced human being. Oh, 'Waiting For You to Blow,' I always wanted to write a song about that devil on your shoulder for those of us in recovery. And best of all, John Prine, and especially having lost him, 'Just Like That,' when I was putting the words to that and picking a key and finger-picking, I just was really holding him in my heart for the story songs that he inspired. But I just really love those early Dylan songs and Jackson Browne's first album. I'm a little bit faster on the piano than I am on guitar. And I have to say I knew they were probably gonna be acoustic guitar songs and not keyboard songs, which I tend to write my more emotional ballads on the piano. The songs that I wrote, two of them, I wrote in early 2019, the lyrics of, but I didn't put the music on until right before the album. Al Anderson I had 30 years ago, Jonah Smith's song I've known I wanted to cut since I heard it in 2009, so there was already three in the pocket there, and then my dear friend, Toots, and I were gonna do 'Love So Strong' together, and sadly, he passed away from complications, most likely of COVID. So I knew I had that one and that's since about 2015. They live up there, and I'm just a fan of Joey's guitar playing and their writing, and it's one of the best new bands I've heard in many, many years. They actually got a JUNO Award for the album in Canada. But I had a few songs that I've known I was gonna record on this record since 2014, when I heard 'Made Up Mind' by this band from Winnipeg called Bros.

So that informs why I write, 'cause I have something important to say that I'm not hearing coming out of the other song choices. I'm always picking feels and lyrical ideas and grooves that are fresh for me and also just something I haven't covered and that I really want to add to the show. One example of that would be Al Anderson's 'Something's Got a Hold of My Heart.' I've had that song for 30 years.

Bonnie Raitt: For me, it's a question of going through songs that I've stashed over the years that I'm just waiting to find the perfect place to put them on a record.

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