You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Since her debut in 2002, Nora Jones has sold over 50 million albums and won eight Grammys.
In 2016, she released Day Breaks, her sixth album.
In this episode,
she takes apart the title track and details how all the pieces came together unexpectedly.
Coming up, you'll hear the original demo and how the song was transformed in the studio,
including a session with jazz saxophone legend Wayne Shorter.
Plus, a few thoughts from Nora's co-producer, Sarah Oda.
It's Nora Jones on Song Exploder.
Hey, I'm Nora Jones.
This song came about a long time ago, maybe two or three years ago.
My organ player Pete Rem and I were just kind of jamming,
and it started out with him playing guitar and doing this weird...
that actually ended up starting the song.
It sounds like a deep tremolo, but really,
he's actually just turning the volume of the guitar up and down.
Which is funny, because you could probably just do it with tremolo,
but he's not a traditional guitar player.