Kristin Burns
From a Joss Stone interview @
Huffington Post:
Mike Ragogna: As far as the LP1's songs, did you write most of them during that six-day excursion (to Nashville)?JS: I wrote a lot of them, yes. We did have a couple songs that we pulled out of the woodwork because Dave (Stewart) and I had done some before just randomly, for no good reason. We just thought, "Oh, let's write some songs," so we did that in LA. We wrote one song there. And in fact, one of the songs that's on the album came from the SuperHeavy sessions. We were writing with all the guys from SuperHeavy, and Dave and I, if you can imagine, we're all in one room. There's Mick (Jagger), Damian (Marley), A.R. (Rahman), Dave, and myself, and then a couple musicians, which are brilliant also. So, we're all jamming together, and then there were little lulls in that where there was kind of silence, and people were tuning and making gibberish noises. In that little lull, Dave and I were listening to each other for some reason, and we wrote "Newborn."
MR: The first song on the album. Joss, how did SuperHeavy come together? That rostery is pretty impressive.JS: It is interesting, isn't it? It's definitely a different thing to do. Dave, at the same time, he's got this thing where he just has these ideas, and he just does them. He just randomly has crazy ideas and a lot of people say, "Oh, well you know, he's got thousands of ideas. He's mental. It's never going to work." But then, five minutes, and it's done. He calls me up, and it's the same thing. "Hey Joss, how're you doing? Um, I've got a really cool idea. Do you want to come? Mick Jagger and I, we're going to make a band. Do you want to sing in the band?" "Yeah, okay." The next minute, I find myself in the studio with all these amazing people, and--"wham bam thank you ma'am"--now we've got an album coming out in September. Just look at it! It's really, really wicked. (laughs) The situations I find myself in are just, like, ridiculous. (laughs)
MR: And the song "Miracle Worker" already has a video.JS: Yeah, we did it just the other day.
MR: What was that like?JS: I like the video, it's got this whole story that's running through it. At the beginning, Damian and I have this conversation and our conversation is about a love that's in a little bit of turmoil. It's not a love lost, but it is kind of going through something. Then Mick, in the video--and also in the lyrics and the song--plays this character that's kind of like the witchdoctor that puts everything right and, I guess, is a little bit of a love therapist in a way. And then, in the chorus, we all come together, sing it, and everything gets fixed, of course, because that's the only way that it could possibly happen. (laughs)
Huffington PostVideo shoot was in June, so it should be surfacing sometime soon...
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