Shannon
If you broke down these songs into how much time we spent on each one, trying to get them arranged and recorded, this would be the most expensive one! Oh, it was a bear. The guitars kept going out of tune. I was unhappy with the first million vocal takes. I don't know why this one took so long. Maybe because it's my favorite and so I had a lot of myself tied up into it.
Michael and I were driving around in Birmingham one day, just driving around looking at stuff. It was fall and we had the windows down. I decided to take him the back way to the neighborhood I grew up in because there's a really fabulous lookout into the valley below. Somehow we missed the turn up to the Bluffs and we ended up down in the valley, which I had never been to. It was so strange to think I had lived there all those years and never been to the little town in the valley below. Shannon. I'd been right there, up on the ridge a million times and literally, right under my nose was this quiet little town. A different world. I was thinking how two different worlds can be so close together and how people from both sides could go their whole lives without knowing that the other was there.
David totally got and captured the feel of this song. His Whiter-Shade-of-Pale keyboard in the background and baritone guitar solo... that's my favorite part of the drive down this little road.
