John Cowan

And so we kind of did have to hone that in on the record.

Like, well, cause there's some, we did, you know, I said we did three versions of it and then we did an electric version of it, um, which may come out some, I don't know, but it, uh, um you know so so it was hard to be like all right well we can't have an eight minute opening track we can but we probably shouldn't right and so it was kind of tough to write it because it is you know you're in the studio and you're just having fun and just jamming with your buds and and then you know but oh yeah we are working on a record so let's let's get that mindset but it it always has been one of the most fun tracks and then i really think you know john cowan came in and sang on it.

And that just kind of elevated it to, to anything further than what I could have comprehended it being, you know, just, just getting to hear John's voice, you know, I've known John forever and I love him dearly.

And, and, um, when I asked, I fully expected him to say no, you know, or he's just too busy or, you know, and, but he made time and he came in and he sang on three tracks on the record.

And so he played.

And then, of course, Jay Lee Roberts sang on a couple tracks.

John Cowan sang on three of them.

The Dirt Band, Molly Tuttle, Dan Skill is on Unknown Legend.

I'm not sure where they are now.

John Cowan.

Oh, man.

He is a beast.

John Cowan and Eddie Messina.

Is that his name? Loggins and Messina.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

After, what, Rusty Young died, who was a member of POCO.

And Asia's upcoming Indigo World Tour dates in Japan.

PB Hales shared the isolated bass line from Release Release as a download, and John Cowan added the Ariel Hyatt Changes tap dance video.

The redoubtable Geoff Bailey shared his thoughts on Rick's return to the Red Planet and his autobiography, and via email Shoji Yamada asked if he could translate a transcript of last week's Oliver Wakeman interview into Japanese for people in that country who are not as comfortable listening to or reading English, as he clearly is.

I said yes, of course, and I've put the link to his translation on the show notes for this week.

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dude but we left just to die yeah but yeah

we had rehearsed up for that and he was like man I want you to do one of these chief shows with me so I did the you know I did last month's which was we did Tom Petty's Wildflowers and we played through the whole record and had John Cowan on that show which was like my first time getting to pick with John and he's one of my absolute heroes and then yeah this next one which Mason was on and Fly By Night was there, and Mother and Son, which is Suzanne Cox and Brandon Ratcliffe.

Suzanne Cox is one of my favorite singers ever.

It's so fun.

I'm stoked, man.

It's like, and of course, you know, we're subbing today for John Cowan.

So, it's like, well, heck.

We didn't even know we were going to be here.