Flying Blind - Commentary

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