"Letter Home" is just that - a letter home from our recent year on the road, 1997. Each verse is a page from each tour, each season. The song had given us some trouble for awhile, as evidenced by the various incarnations you may have heard since its inception. It went from being a simple country song to include an extended bridge with an odd-metered world beat extravaganza, and even became a reggae song at one point, before coming full circle and becoming the song it always was - a simple country song. And it wasn't until the end of our fall '97 tour, as we were returning home, that the song also 'returned home.' Life vs. art? Let's call it a draw.
Al:
"Letter Home" is just that - a letter home from our recent year on the road, 1997. Each verse is a page from each tour, each season. The song had given us some trouble for awhile, as evidenced by the various incarnations you may have heard since its inception. It went from being a simple country song to include an extended bridge with an odd-metered world beat extravaganza, and even became a reggae song at one point, before coming full circle and becoming the song it always was - a simple country song. And it wasn't until the end of our fall '97 tour, as we were returning home, that the song also 'returned home.' Life vs. art? Let's call it a draw.