My male high school journalism teacher taught me to write and most of my female English teachers gaveme a love of literature that is one of the mainstays of my spiritual life to this day.
"A friend of mine gaveme your album Love Comes and Goes, and I wanted to make sure you knew that you're in my road music, and you have to understand how important my road music is to me, " McRae told Parris when they first met.
With his band Red House Painters, he took things like "Long Distance Runaround" by Yes and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs, " slowed them way down and gave them entirely new emotional meaning, which to me is the mark of a truly great cover version.