The story of "Smile At You"

[SisterNightroad]

Mike Bise did a post about the story and versions of "Smile at you" before his site shut down and the song is also mentioned on one of Stevie's 1981 interviews (maybe Rolling Stone?) and I know two things about this song:

1) The earliest version(s) of Smile at you that we have is from the Tusk sessions but the song was written during the Rumours period.

2) During the Mirage sessions the song was ultimately pushed aside in favor of Straight back because (in Stevie's opinion) the song, that maybe was about Lindsey, was too angry and thus didn't depict the state of their relationship during that time.


P.S. As I thought, I saved the Smile at you demos on my PC time ago:

these two are from the Tusk sessions (the second is from "Uncirculated Rumours", but I think there was at least one more):
1) https://www.dropbox.com/s/qxd1f3zw22...u%201.mp3?dl=0
2) https://www.dropbox.com/s/4stknwamjw...Final.mp3?dl=0

these are the two Mirage versions that we have (and among them is the famous "angry version"):
1) https://www.dropbox.com/s/u1m8g6d1bu...e%201.mp3?dl=0
2) https://www.dropbox.com/s/4rwbrmr4x3...e%202.mp3?dl=0