7/22/2023 0 Comments Rita wilson youngAnd it was so cool because he said, “Thank you for asking me to do this. So he reached out to Willie, and I reached out to Jackson Browne because we had done that song live before together, and we really enjoyed doing that song together, “Let It Be Me.” Josh Groban, I had met, didn’t really know that well, but I could hear his voice on that, on "Songbird." I could just hear it. But Matt Rawlings, my co-producer, had produced and won Grammys with Willie Nelson’s Gershwin album and his Sinatra album. WILSON: I didn’t know a lot of people, had maybe met some people in passing. So we just put everything that we loved in there and as we started thinking about, all right, but what are these songs saying? Because some songs are just great songs, but is there really an opportunity for a duet here?“ĪP: How many of these singers did you know well already and how many were like a cold call? My co-producer is Matt Rawlings, an amazing pianist, arranger, orchestrator. So in the initial - let’s call them the bag of songs - there were so many and we just threw in everything that we loved. So I thought, ‘All right, then what makes this different and what makes it fresh?’ And when I started thinking about my mom and those connections and well, maybe this is people talking to each other, maybe there’s a conversation here that could be had. I wanted to stay connected to that emotional reaction I had when I heard them when I was younger. I didn’t want to reinvent the melody or reinvent the tempo. And when songs are great the way these are, I didn’t want to mess with them too much. WILSON: Well, I love these songs and I revere the songwriters who wrote them and the original artists who recorded them. Why did you want to transform them in that way? ![]() Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.ĪP: Most of these songs were not originally recorded as duets. She talked to The Associated Press about creating a conversation with her duet partners, working with artists who she loved and bridging her love of music and acting. He added, “ a lot of sugar… a lot of not necessarily paying attention to the schedule.Now Wilson is doing just that with her favorite ‘70s songs and turning them into duets for her new record “Rita Wilson Now & Forever: Duets.“ Her musical collaborators include Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson, Keith Urban, Leslie Odom Jr., Jackson Browne, Tim McGraw, Elvis Costello and many more. You know, actually cooked food that the kids will eat. “It would be great if they paid attention to the kids’ bedtime. In an interview with TODAY, Colin said, “They’re okay,” about Hanks and Wilson as grandparents. We got a little more insight into Hanks’ and Wilson’s grandparent styles in October. Grandparenting Requires ‘a Lot of Sugar’.So basically, like every other grandparent’s house! “The grandparent gives them stuff they shouldn’t be having, and the grandparents don’t listen to what the parents are saying they should be doing,” Colin said. He also explained a little bit about what it’s like at their grandparents’ house. In an interview with Us Weeklyin March 2019, Colin joked that his daughters “don’t care” about their grandpa’s fame. Image Credit: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images ![]() ![]()
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