I'm kind of sad. We have been visiting with Sheryl Crow about her new album, Threads,
and she's been telling us the stories behind all of these amazing songs. And I can't believe we're
already to the last song on the album featuring the incredible and incomparable voice of Vince
Gill. Talk about For the Sake of Love. I write For the Sake of Love. I wrote it actually
years ago, and I've held on to it because I haven't known exactly what to do with it.
But it's a relationship song, and it's about having the world kind of, whether it's the world
at large, if you're a well-known person, or whether it's your world, pass judgment on who
they think you should love. And as parents, I'm sure we do it to our kids. We declare who's right
for our kids in one way or another. I'm sure for people who feel like whoever it is that they love
isn't acceptable, which we see a lot in gay communities, and especially with young kids
having to come out to their parents. I mean, just the burden of,
loving who you love and feeling like people don't approve of it, that's really what the song is
about. So I had it where it was just me on the song. And in the 11th hour, I called Vince to
sing on it. Vince has been unbelievable. I mean, he's, I call him, and he just is always there for
me. And he's been there, like, through some really tough times for me, too. And he's just, you know,
he's the consummate musician, and he's, I don't even need to say it, but like, has one of the
most unbelievable voices in history. I mean, the guy's an unbelievable singer. And it needed
to have him on the bridge to really pull across the meaning that this is a song about two people
who love each other. It's sort of my version of Somewhere, which was between Maria and Tony
in West Side Story. And that's having him on it, I think, really cemented that.
Well, I don't think anybody would argue with me when I say that I think Vince Gill has one of the
most amazing voices. And to hear him and Sheryl Crow together, it's fantastic. This is called
For the Sake of Love off Sheryl Crow's Threads album, which is available now.
Available now.