lifeblood: songs: backgrounds: joy train

2023-02-23 live in the volume studio - lightning 100 - nashville, tennessee (amy ray)

amy ray: i sort of combined a couple of different experiences. one was when i was, used to go drive my kid around. she's nine now but when she was really young and you know how you go in a car and you drive your kid around so they'll go to sleep because they won't sleep. so i was thinking about that and making notes on that one time. and then the other thing is i was in jackson, mississippi and ran across a revival outside um in a park and there were uh men on horses circling the revival kind of guarding things and it was just a really cool moment, you know. it was a black church and it was like a lot of singing and joy, joyfulness. and i, it made me start thinking about the ghost of all of our civil rights leaders. and i always feel them kinda on my shoulder reminding me to stay positive in the face of any kind of, you know, negativity and always try to, you know, work for the best and work for society and stuff like that. so it's kind of about that, you know, get on the joy train, you know, kind of adjust your attitude.

dj: yeah, that's beautiful. i love that. well, would you mind playing it for us here?

amy ray: no, we don't mind. and this is, uh we got jeff fielder over here on guitar in, in radioland. jeff fielder is in the band and matt smith is playing dobro. he's also our pedal steel player. so he's crossing over today for this one. oh no, you play dobro on this song on the record, right? yeah, we recorded this in nashville actually at sound emporium. those folks over there are awesome.

dj: yeah, that's a beautiful studio.

amy ray: yeah, yeah, juanita really helped us out and skyler chuckery did our assistant engineer and bobby tis from tedeschi trucks was our mixer and engineer and brian speiser from tedeschi trucks did the production and yeah, we worked there. it was a blast, a total blast. but, and alison brown played on this, the banjo player. this is a, that was a fun one. but here we go, we're gonna do it with us three.