<p>If you've been following my <i>Sound On Sound</i> <a href="[[~428]]#MixReview">Mix Review</a> column, you'll have already read some of my thoughts about this song <a href="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may14/articles/mixreview-0514.htm#para4">here</a>, but it's a shame to waste interesting material, so I figured I'd quickly post some further comments for all you lovely patrons. Besides, it's a great track to listen to, so any excuse to fire it up again has to be good!</p>

<p>The main thing I discovered from the seminar was that the song's long outro (following the second chorus) originally featured Raitt's guitar solo -- but Don Was muted it! Given that Raitt was arguably best known as a guitarist at that point, and that everyone involved was already pretty certain that the song would be the single to break the album, Don Was must have cojones of <i>steel</i>. There's little doubt that the guitar solo was great, so you've got to respect him fighting for such a suitably restrained ending. And indeed for telling the drummer "you are a drum machine" on the same grounds.</p>

<p>But there were a bunch of other little cool factoids besides. For example, the songwriter was a hulking former American Football player, which makes the songwriting even more impressive to my mind. And the song's surprising final chord was a just a MIDI editing error of his while demoing, but he decided to leave it in once he'd slept on it. Make that another co-production credit for Mr Serendipity...</p>