…but there’s a cute bit of the Heaven’s Door site that has a random selection of Bob’s original typescripts for songs that reference drink. It’s occasioned the release of more pictures of Bob in his ironworking studio, along with inspirational quotes… The finish is slightly bitter, with the sweet spiciness of an Atomic Fireball.” Sounds good, Clay. According to Clay Risen of The New York Times, “the palate opens with a soft cocoa and buttercream note, then sharpens toward black pepper and cigar tobacco. ![]() attempting to buy a bottle of Bob’s new signature hootch, Heaven’s Door. Susan thought the finished song was “exceptional, in his Top 10”. It also has a couple of bluesy turns to the melody which really work, and listen to how Eric Leeds’ tenor picks up on that sour/sweetness beautifully. (Eddie Hinton was another captain manyhands in this regard – Spotify “Watch Dog”…). It has that loosey-goosey drumming style that Stevie Wonder had when he overdubbed on top of his own drum parts. There’s an unexpected muscularity as the drums and swooping guitar fly in at the end of the first line. It starts for all the world like a Harry Nilsson song, a fairground calliope round punctuated by a percussive dah-dah! Then the vocal starts, a tune you know so well that any deviance from the version you’ve loved since 1990 pulls you up short. ![]() Rogers, who witnessed many such bursts of creativity, remembers, “The song came out like a sneeze.” As usual, she rolled the tapes as Prince laid down instrument after instrument, mixing and overdubbing in the same session (Eric Leeds overdubbed the sax part three days later).” “One day, he went into a room with a notebook and, within an hour, emerged with the lyrics to “Nothing Compares 2 U”. ![]() With some synchronicity, there I was talking about Susan Rogers (see the music player on the right) and Eric Leeds, when she’s interviewed by The Guardian for the release of Prince’s version of “Nothing Compares 2 U”. It was a week of strangeness, a week where Gibson went bankrupt, Bob Dylan turned distiller and Prince had a new song out…
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