I hope you're enjoying the Sheryl Crow Threads album release special, and when you look at the people on this album, it is just so incredible, and you have to think about the fact that they all agree to participate because they respect Sheryl as an artist, they like her as a person, so when she asked, they said yes, and one guy that said yes, and she's actually had a chance to work with him a lot in her life, is Willie Nelson, so let's talk about Lonely Alone.
Lonely Alone is a song that I wrote with Willie in mind, and I called up my buddy Shane McAnally and said, I want to write a song that is worthy of Willie Nelson, which I think is almost impossible.
He's written some of the greatest songs ever written, and I think people don't realize that he's a writer, that he's had songs, he's had hits in every genre.
He's had jazz songs, blues songs, country songs, rock songs that have made it on the charts.
In every genre, I mean, he's just amazing, and he's still out there doing it, and he's also been an unbelievable friend to me, and he's also been really my favorite duet partner for years.
So much so that when I was going through LAX, coming from Europe and going through customs and hoping they weren't going to pick me, I got picked, and I thought they were going to go through my luggage, but instead the guy said, can I give you some advice?
I think you're working with Willie Nelson a little too much.
So I was like, I've made it.
Willie!
Anyway, we wrote this song.
Lonely Alone, and it's very much like a Willie Nelson song.
It's about being lonely in a bar and not wanting to be alone and just saying, hey, it doesn't have to last forever, but we don't have to be lonely alone.
And he just killed it, and he just brought his willingness to it.
And Mickey Raphael played on it, and it just gives it that great Willie Nelson sound.
I love it.
His willingness.
You'll hear it on this one.
This is Lonely Alone, brand new from Sheryl Crow on Big Machine Radio.