The Power of YouTube: Boz Scaggs On Lu Duet

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Boz Scaggs sat down with RS with talk on his new album, his first in five years.

The song “Whispering Pines” is a classic by the Band, but what made you envision it as a duet with Lucinda Williams?

I had been searching for the heart of that song for some time. You get into the Band’s original recording of it and there’s some disparate chords being played, and I think those guys were sort of feeling their way around harmonically. It led me to try and find my own definitive version of those chord changes, and I searched around the web to see if other people had done it and how they had heard it. I didn’t hear any version of it that seemed definitive to me, but I did run across a tribute to Levon Helm after he died and Lucinda gave it a reading that was deeper and richer than anybody else had given it. She shares the same fascination for Richard Manuel and the eerie quality and the mysterious quality of that song.