Story Of Everything

Their voices together, they just give me the chills. Cheryl Crow and Chris Stapleton from her album Threads, which is out now. And we have so many incredible stories that we're getting to hear from Cheryl Crow as we celebrate the release of her album And this next song is so relevant for the times that we're living in. And I know that you've got some strong thoughts on it. So Cheryl, tell me about the story of everything. I know you co-wrote it and you actually brought in a few people on this one. Chuck D, Andra Day and Gary Clark Jr The story of everything actually began at the piano And I just was playing and singing And Steve Jordan came over and started playing a little acoustic guitar And we got this jam going And I had these sort of Stevie Wonder chords And he threw in this line, you can live, you can die, but you know we got to try to get along And that was really the summation of what was going on And it's still going on in this country I mean, just the vitriol between parties and how divided we all are And so it's a song that speaks to that It's a song that speaks to what's happening all across America with the division between real poverty and abject wealth like we've never seen And so really our question was, who do we bring in to sing and play on this? And Chuck D, I've known since the early 90s We were both on the Rock the Vote board And he's been a friend He came through for me on a CNN thing And he's just an amazingly intelligent person who can really speak to what's happening in this country And Andra Day had just come out with this song, Rise Up, which I felt like was just such an anthem And so we reached out to her and said, would you come in and be a part of this song? And of course, we called Gary Clark Jr., who has been on several things on this record and on my last record And the guy, I think, really just emulates the fire and the fire, the fiery this of what's happening right now, especially with young people Seeing what's happening with the future that's being laid out for them And so I think with all those people in the soup, it just really made the song have a lot of meaning and a lot of conviction You know, when I first listened to this song, it sort of felt like an indictment on the times that we're living in right now It's called The Story of Everything on Big Machine Radio