Sheryl Crow ft Jason Isbell - Everything is Broken
LCM Song Of The Day: ‘Everything Is Broken’ - Sheryl Crow ft Jason Isbell
We love a great cover here at LCM and today’s featured track is the brand new song from Sheryl’s forthcoming album ‘Threads’ released at the end of August.. It’s a Bob Dylan cover featuring the always fantastic Jason Isbell.
Sheryl comments: “One of my treasured possessions is a worn and tattered paperback edition of Bob Dylan lyrics that I look at before I start writing my records. Bob has a cadence and a viewpoint that’s essential in inspiring me to get into lyric writing mode.
In the early years of touring, I opened up for a lot of great bands and artists, but none greater than Bob Dylan. As far as I’m concerned, he is the Holy Grail of artists, musicians, poets, and characters all combined into one person. He has invited me up on numerous occasions through the years to sit in on accordion or to sing. He is a character but above all, he is uniquely Bob, and I adore him.
I say with deep gratitude that Bob Dylan has been a good friend through the years. I have even called him to ask him how to get out of writer’s block. He generously sent me a song called “Mississippi” for an album I was making that I seemed to not be able to finish. In the eleventh hour, we recorded his song and it breathed new life into the album, which would eventually come out as The Globe Sessions.
For “Threads”, I decided to record a Dylan song, "Everything Is Broken", as a tribute to Bob, and I asked Jason Isbell to help me do that. Jason is wildly talented and has a unique perspective that I am inspired by. He’s a very special artist and he just kills on this song.”