5 reasons why you love TUSK

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by Wdm6789

I think Sara might be Stevie's best song. We can't give her all the credit though, the piano tune on Sara is what makes the song, in my opinion. So thank you Christine for that beautiful piece of art. John's bass is brilliant too. I love his style on all of the songs, but the bass always works particularly well on Stevie's songs. Lindsey is also great for putting the song together, but the guitar should have been much more subtle. There are parts of the song where the guitar takes away from the piano. I think Sara world have been even better if it was even more piano heavy with a nice steady subtle guitar strumming in the background.

While I agree Christine's playing is stellar, and Richard/Ken/Lindsey's production of layering in several piano tracks is brilliant, the actual riff of that song is all Stevie's. Listen to her songwriting demo-- not the studio demo with drums and bass and guitar and backing vocals, but her actual songwriting demo with just her and the piano. It's exactly what you hear on the finished song. Christine has always been great at taking just what Stevie wrote and played and just doing it better.