MacNuggets

[SisterNightroad]

Todd, did Courtney bring anything to this role that surprised you?

Oh, yes. She’s got such an enormous life force, and she brought in all of this energy, even in ways that she doesn’t know. She just, as an interpreter of someone else’s music, brings all of her color and artistry to it, so the songs had to fit themselves to her. I think it’s actually brought them to life in a way that they weren’t alive. There’s a song that takes place in the story where she and I – we play lovers who come together and go apart and come back together in a strange way – but the part where we’re splitting up is a long, slow lovely song with these long phrases that quietly unfold themselves. And Courtney’s like, ‘I just had a major impulse,’ and she showed me Fleetwood Mac live from the 1982 “Mirage” tour doing “The Chain,” where Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks are singing at each other and for the audience, and there’s a lot of history and hatred and love. And it was such an explosive performance that I went back to the drawing board and kind of rethought that song. Courtney and I sat in my living room with a guitar and we rethought that whole moment.
So there were specific moments like that where Courtney had intellectual thoughts on the piece that changed it, but also, she just has a spiritual effect on the piece that revolutionized it.


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