APPEARS ON:
- Crooked, 2010
WORDS FROM KRISTIN:
- (Re: CASH Music version) "There was an upset horse outside the studio when I recorded "Flooding" ...You can hear
it yell at the end of the song."
- (Re: CASH Music version) "Having heard "Flooding" every night on the
last tour (I kept opening with it, inexplicably, 'cause I didn't know it yet), Billy wanted to hear it again, but he wanted
to hear it the way it was bouncing around inside his head. I did too, 'cause I'd only heard the version that bounced around
inside my head.
So I gave Billy the wheel and he steered "Flooding"
in an impressionistic, watery direction. It swims, doesn't even try to walk. Swiminess is effective when emotional timing
is called for, but to play a song with no discernible meter is hard, to make it sound okay, even harder. Piano?? Seriously??
But I trust music that bounces inside heads, so I let the man with the plan boss me around until "Flooding" became a sad water
creature.
And it is sad, I should warn you. The heaviness
of the vocals was not put on, it's real. But such a beautiful treatment, I'm honored to have played a part in its painting.
