2019-06-13
22 分钟You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and,
piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
My name is Tao Nguyen.
Cheryl Crow is a singer-songwriter from Missouri.
She's released 10 studio albums, sold over 50 million records, and has won nine Grammys.
In April 2019, Sheryl Crow released a new version of her song,
Redemption Day, which was first released on her self-titled album in 1996.
This new version features vocals from Johnny Cash,
who recorded a cover of the song that was released posthumously in 2010.
And in this episode, Sheryl Crow breaks down how it all came together.
The story starts in 1995.
Hi, I'm Cheryl Crow.
So Redemption Day was really inspired by having made a trip to Bosnia and having performed for the troops over there and really just having been witness to what war can do to not only communities,
but the countryside and to the psyche of a country.
Camp Linda was the host of a very special guest.
Cheryl Crow, one of today's hottest musical artists,
visited the camp to give the soldiers something special to write home about.
I was really struck by not only what I'd seen, but also by what I was seeing on TV,
which was mostly coverage of what was going on in Rwanda simultaneously.
And yet...