Joe Henry

My kids were all there and sang and played, and then we had wonderful guests.

Speaking of guests, Christopher Guest from Spinal Tap and Michael McKean and Joe Henry and the great jazz guitar player John Schofield and all kinds of great people played that night.

So it was a lot of fun.

Yeah, I've seen some of the clips from it.

So it was things like that.

One of my dearest friends... guy called peter fallon a poet that i've known for almost 60 years came over from from ireland and read some poems and that was another highlight

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sure was he sang that song school days oh great and uh and uh john schofield accompanied him on that

Tell me a little bit about you made this with a guy that I admire a lot.

Tell me about working with Joe Henry.

Joe Henry is the only person that I can think of who could have created this album that we have.

One of the reasons that I felt there was no choice but to work with him if he would do it once we had our first discussion was the fact that he loves to do live recordings.

This idea, and he said it so matter-of-factly.

Lord, I'm gonna rise.

I used to tease Joe Henry.

I guess I teased too hard.

And one day it all happened.

And I've worked with some great producers.

Joe Henry and Bob Johnston and John Leventhal.

I'm feeling more and more comfortable in the studio, and now I'm a little more engaged when I go in, I think.

Last time we spoke, we had a conversation about how, as you get older, you have to sing about different things.

So it was, that was a joyful thing.

And then Joe Henry sent some of our early demos to Wendy and Lisa because they're heroes to all of us, and we really wanted to have them on this record.

So they said, "Yep, we'll do it," but they said they could only do it if we came to them.

Originally, we were gonna do it in Nashville, but they've had their own studio at Chaplin here in LA, and we recorded pretty much all live together in the room.

Right, in port and in wherever island it was.

And it could have been 30 seconds earlier and she'd go, I'll move on to Joe Henry or somebody else.

I did answer the call.

I said, yeah, sure.