Highway 20 Inside Job Blog - Track #1 - DUST

Dust was one of the most unlikely and unplanned songs on the record. We had a lot of songs already recorded for what was to become the Ghosts Of Highway 20 but we wanted to get a couple more recorded. We got Bill Frisell to come back for two days back in April and Lucinda was working hard finishing up some songs so they were ready when he got to town. She had a couple songs ready but wanted to have a few more.Ironically, she was just starting to work on the song the Ghosts Of Highway 20, but it wasn’t going to be finished in time - which I was disappointed about at the time. Somewhere in the week before I had shown Lu her father’s poem Dust and just sort of casually told her that I thought it would make a great song. I had come across it several months before and it stuck with me that it had song potential. Well...it really resonated with her instantly and it just came to her and she had it done in a day - maybe two at the most. When we got into in the studio it just exploded into the very special song it became. It was amazing to witness. Two days before it hadn’t existed.Musically, it has some amazing guitar interplay between Bill and Greg - they are telepathic together. They way they play off of each other on this song is just incredible. That was one of the reasons we decided to open the record with this song. We wanted to establish that the guitars on this record were going to be a musical center of the record - and we also wanted make a statement that this record was going to be musically different that Spirt Meets The Bone. We actually put Magnolia (which features Bill & Greg) at the end of Bone as a bit of a musical sneak preview of the next record. That is one of the ways that two records connect.- Lucinda mgmt. (Tom) ‪#‎DWTSMTB‬ ‪#‎Hwy20InsideJobBlog