Regarding the recent Nashville recording session, I would like to think that Stevie had put down some vocals, but I’m not sure there would have been sufficient time for this. From memory, she did record the vocals for the IYD album after the instrumentation had been completed. It’s important to me that she be in good voice whenever this took/takes place because no matter how great the song is, it always stands or falls (for me) on the basis of the vocal delivery. (That was my major problem with some of her contributions to the SYW album.)
Whilst Dave did elicit some wonderful vocal performances from Stevie for IYD, there were parts of which I’m not so fond (the first verse to “Annabel Lee”; the verses and chorus of “In Your Dreams”; the rushed delivery on “Italian Summer” and to some extent, “For What It’s Worth” and the rough take on “The Ghost Is Gone”).
The fast pace of this current recording excites me in some ways, but I am concerned about Stevie's vocals holding up.
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