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It kind of wrote itself. Having the melody carried me to the end. I had this machine where I could put those harmonies on and I liked the way they spread out like a horn section.

With her impeccable ear for a great song, Harris found two cover tunes to complete the album, musically and thematically. The sparsely arranged title track, a song Harris had been coveting for a while, comes from Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith and describes a lover, friend, or even a guardian angel who repeatedly pulls someone back from the brink of falling apart. It was there for the plucking. To think of Harris is often to think of her brief but incredibly influential partner in song, the cosmic cowboy Gram Parsons: the man frequently credited with helping give birth to alt-country, influencing artists from Ryan Adams to Wilco.

But Parsons changed all that: recruiting Harris for his touring band, the Fallen Angels, he introduced her to the complex but humanistic language of country.

That song, and our harmony, is kind of a pinnacle of our duet-singing together. It contained just one Harris writing credit, Boulder to Birmingham.

Composed with Bill Danoff, it helped her work through the loss of Parsons. And everyone has experienced loss, so even though the song is deeply personal, I can understand how people can relate to it, having lost someone who is very close to them. In , very few people knew the name Rodney Crowell , now himself a country great and two-time Grammy winner. But the second that Harris heard his songs after meeting in Washington DC late after a gig, she knew that was about to change.

Till I Gain Control Again was one of the first pieces the Texan played for her, and it resonated instantly. This is within the context of the addressee at hand, who reads as if he is an ex-boyfriend. Rather, theirs was a musical partnership. But in the chorus they also give a shoutout to the late Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter Cash Johnny and June are another pair of country musicians who were in fact married — for over a good three decades at that.

Indeed it was via their musical careers that they initially crossed paths. Now truth be told, it is never specified that the relationship featured in this song is actually a romance. So based on the premise, the highly-poetic first verse ultimately concludes with the idea that the singer is missing her ex. However this time around, the vocalist also acknowledges a certain lesson she has learned as far as relationships go.

Then the bridge, as it traditionally does, proves to be quite revealing. For here we are made aware of what it is that actually messed up the relationship between the singer and the addressee. The program will be streamed live at countrymusichalloffame. Attendees must have a Program Ticket to guarantee admission to this event.

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