Cheryl Crow has a new album called Threads and it's actually available on CD and digital plus she has put together a vinyl collection and this is one song that has two different versions depending on which version of the album you buy.
If you get the vinyl release she is singing with Margo Price and Neil Young and on the digital and CD release Cheryl is singing Cross Creek Road with Lucas Nelson and Neil Young.
So Cheryl tell me about Cross Creek Road.
Cross Creek Road actually is a song that I wrote with my buddy Jeff about my old farm which was outside of Nashville and represented a lot of things to me.
It represented my real search for peace in my life.
That farm represented a lot of transition for me.
I came there when I was newly diagnosed with breast cancer.
I came there when I was done with treatment.
I came there to make my first record after that when I brought my three month old home.
It just had a lot of emotional connection for me.
And so I asked.
I asked Don Henley to sing on the record mainly because he was very instrumental in my getting a record deal back in 1989 or 90 and I've known him for years.
He's been there through thick and thin for me and we asked Neil Young to play the guitar parts on it because the song sounds like him and because I've gotten to know him through the years.
He's been a even before I knew him just a monumental inspiration for me and asked him to be a part of the record after having done a lot of the bridge school benefits.
And then.
Shortly after recording it I met and became friends with Margo Price who I feel like is just a really unique and authentic artist but also a real throwback.
You know she's out there on the road.
She reminds me of me not artistically but how we were in the early days where we just loved playing and getting out there and communicating and having a relationship with the audience just like all the artists that I've loved started out out there playing and touring and being a troubadour.
So.
All those people on this track I guess really take me back to Cross Creek.
You'll find this song on Cheryl's new album Threads which is available now to stream download or buy wherever music is sold.
It's called Cross Creek Road on Big Machine Radio.