[April 26, 2016, a global collaboration that's indeed a thing called love—of music!] So honored to have worked on this Hiatt à la Raitt cover with these greatly talented folk (and even greater souls)!
Finn Bårdsen (Autopilot Club): https://soundcloud.com/finn-slide-guitarist/tracks Slide guitar lead and rhythm
Gary Reeves (Mountain Songs): https://soundcloud.com/mountain-songs/tracks Percussion
Martin Lucas (Return to Normal): https://soundcloud.com/mlucas/tracks for his wonderful working version Logic X drum programming (plus his keen ears and being an all-round Hoosier mensch :)
JT Lindroos: Cover design https://www.facebook.com/people/JT-Lindroos/100003643716049 and http://jtlindroos.tumblr.com/
The vocals, synth keyboard (bass/piano/steel guitar/trombones) and sundry guitar bits, along with mixing / production work by Kathleen Martin (kat330): http://soundcloud.com/kat330/tracks
For those very familiar with both John Hiatt's original and Bonnie Raitt's revision of the lyrics, you'll note I tweaked them yet again. I felt "queen" was a better fit than "king" for ending the B line of the first verse, and anyway rhymes as sufficiently with "thing" as do both their "kang" pronunciations. But then the "Queen of Sheba" line right afterwards is too much queen for one verse, so I simply switched the C line rhymes between 1st and 2nd verses. Then I also revised the "Prince Charming" lyric to be less of a diss of my lover and more of a "you don't need to be because I don't need one" notion. ☼:) For my 2nd bridge lyrics, longer version of TCL: https://soundcloud.com/kat330/thing-called-love-add-lyrics
As always, thank you for taking the time to listen AND to read these notes! xxxooo
