Redemption Day (Commentary)

Letra de Redemption Day (Commentary)

Cheryl Crow has put together what some might consider the album of a lifetime There are 17 tracks on this album with some of the most incredible collaborators And it's called "Threads" It is available now and so we've been talking to Cheryl about all the songs on this albumBecause, obviously, she can tell the stories better than anybody And we are up to Redemption Day, and talk about a special song She is singing with the late Johnny Cash So, Cheryl, tell me, how did this version of this song come to be?So Redemption Day has a long story, and it goes back to a trip I made to Bosnia with Hillary Clinton I played for the troops, I'd never seen anything like a war-torn area in my life I'd only seen it on the evening news during early days Or late days of Vietnam when people were coming home On the evening news, wrapped in flags and caskets, andThat was my relationship to war And it was very ominous, but it wasn't everywhere It wasn't 24-hour news back then, so it was a deep, disturbing relationship to me To see what war looked like in person So I came home and I wrote this song called "Redemption Day" Put it out on, I guess, my second record Which luckily had some hits on it, and So people probably heard it because back then you bought an album And you heard the album cutsWell, cut to many years later, in 2003 Johnny Cash recorded it right before he passed away And we had many conversations about the song And he loved the song and felt like it was really important For that moment, and he wanted it to come out then And then he passed away And the song didn't actually come out for many years And, so, this song now has sort of reappearedAnd has a whole new message for what's happening So I guess in the best case scenario when you write a song You hope it's gonna outlive everything It's gonna be timeless, it's gonna have meaning for all the ages But I feel like it's really presented itself now as having found its moment And having Johnny Cash on it, having his vocal on it His original vocal that he did in his cabinIt just brings so much weight to the song And brings a seriousness and a depth to it That I think kind of announces the song's moment And brings a lot of meaning to what we're going through And who we are at this moment in our evolutionAnd if you haven't seen the video, it also is incredibly powerful It's available on YouTube now, and this is Cheryl Crow and the late Johnny Cash Redemption Day, of her new album, Threads