Dallas Austin and Stevie

[mikebise]

Ever since Entertainment Weekly announced that Stevie was in Atlanta in May 1999 to work with Dallas Austin, there has been speculation. Once I got the "Bombay Sapphires" outtake from the original 16~track Trouble In Shangri~la, I tried to see if I heard hallmarks of his music, what little I knew from his work on Madonna's "Secret".

It sounds like a Stevie Nicks song. Not that different than the demo, not that different from the album version with Macy Gray. What makes the sonic experts so positive that he produced this outtake? Enlighten me with specifics.