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[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by sorcerer999

As Stevie and Sharon have both stated in various interviews, this song was written in Hawaii (1977) right after they met. Sharon was performing at a club in Lahaina with her band at the Blue Max. Stevie was in the audience and jumped on stage to sing with Sharon after they'd started singing one of Stevie's songs. After the show, Stevie introduced herself, they started talking about music and hitting it off. Sharon said that Stevie was staying at a beach house and really wished she had a piano because the ocean was inspiring her to want to write. Sharon called up a friend that night and managed to get a piano over to the beach house. In the Wild Heart interview with Jim Ladd, Stevie says they stayed up that night and wrote "Blue Water". They even sing a little bit of it for Jim. Stevie also says that's when she asked Sharon to join her band whenever her solo career got off the ground. I remember in a different interview with Sharon, she said that when Stevie asked her to join her band, Sharon laughed and said, "No problem!"

Thanks for the info... I knew the story, but I wasn't 100% sure of the timeframe. It's shocking that they go back almost as far as Stevie's involvement in FM. Almost as shocking as the way Stevie sounds on the master recording- it presages her Bella Donna voice incredibly.