00:00What does writing a song look like with your husband?
00:02Well, I'll give you a little story, and this is how it works on this record.
00:06I never knew my daddy. I've got his ashes.
00:08Someone gave me the ashes in my family. I never met him.
00:11And when they found him, he had a drawer full of clippings
00:15that he had cut out of me on stage and me doing interviews.
00:19And when I told my husband, he said, we have to write that song.
00:23So he started to write things down, and I did too.
00:26And then we got a guitar, and we started messing with melodies,
00:28and we would talk about it over dinner.
00:30So it was this back and forth, just writing the story.
00:33It's one of those songs that wrote itself almost.
00:36It was one of those moments in my record where I'm absolutely at my bottom,
00:41and you're going to hear me crying because I couldn't do the vocal
00:45without feeling the words.
00:46It was powerful, and it helped me through that experience.
00:50Backstage Pass. Hosted by Gentry Thomas.
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