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charlene · 12-03-2008, 06:42 PM

I believe it possibly references Ms. Cathy Smith .. and she sings backup on it too..apparently her vocals were added By Lenny Waronker, producer, without Mr. Lightfoot's knowledge..
FROM SONGBOOK: Lightfoot says:
A song about infidelity. Lenny Waronker, a producer and former Warner Bros. Records president, and all of us at the studio realized when we laid it down that it would be the single. There's nothing like unrequited love with a touch of infidelity to captured people's imaginations. In the whole time I've been recording, I've never had the sense that a song was going to click the way it did with this one. I lived out in the country when I was writing that album, and each night there was a beautiful, big sunset to the west of the barn, and that imagery made it into the song. The cover of the album was taken at the farm, where I'm sitting on a bale of hay. The farmhouse was a very good workroom, I have fond memories of working there.

12-03-2008, 06:42 PM	#30
charlene Moderator Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 16,001	Re: Analogy I believe it possibly references Ms. Cathy Smith .. and she sings backup on it too..apparently her vocals were added By Lenny Waronker, producer, without Mr. Lightfoot's knowledge.. FROM SONGBOOK: Lightfoot says: A song about infidelity. Lenny Waronker, a producer and former Warner Bros. Records president, and all of us at the studio realized when we laid it down that it would be the single. There's nothing like unrequited love with a touch of infidelity to captured people's imaginations. In the whole time I've been recording, I've never had the sense that a song was going to click the way it did with this one. I lived out in the country when I was writing that album, and each night there was a beautiful, big sunset to the west of the barn, and that imagery made it into the song. The cover of the album was taken at the farm, where I'm sitting on a bale of hay. The farmhouse was a very good workroom, I have fond memories of working there.