10 All Right Here

All Right Here
Jan King wrote the music, I wrote the words. I was passing through Chicago on tour and she played this song for me on her grand piano. After I’d sufficiently pulled myself together, quit crying and all that, she taught me how to play it on guitar. When the music is right the words come easy (words never had so much musical encouragement) so I got them done pretty fast. They sound right to me anyway… and true. I worked on it for the rest of the tour and by the time I got home, had the basic arrangement that you hear on the record. It’s in drop D tuning and while it lends itself to the Crazy Horse treatment it sounds really good solo on a beat up old resonator.
Recording Note – When you’re making a record there’s a tendency to want to tidy things up. Fix it. It’s possible we have a better version of this, or maybe we could’ve combined three or four takes into one really good one. I suppose I could’ve comped a vocal. Or re-sung it. We might’ve dropped the high-hat tics keeping us all on time in the big holes. Well again, since it’s Crazy Horse, not Tidy Horse we left it the heck alone.
Billy Talbot – Bass
Ralph Molina – Drums
Phil Lee – Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica
Jan King – Guitar
George Bradfute – Guitar
Richard Bennett – Shruti Box