Cowboy Bring Me Back

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"Okay can I even tell you about the hair...this was for Street Angel and I was actually breastfeeding Colton, and I didn't realize it then but looking at it again now, you can clearly tell.l He couldn't have been that old. He was born in June of 93, this was February of 94 at my album release listening party. So he was maybe seven or eight months old. And I hadn't really lost the baby weight yet either. Back to the hair though, every night take a shower wash my hair. Dry it, finger dry it with a hairdryer then braid it in little tiny braids. It took two hours to braid it. The reason I had to do that with my hair was because some idiot had given me what they call a root perm which is they just perm the first two inches of your hair as you can now see right now. But they forgot to perm the rest of it so the rest of it all the solution just kind of poured down over so it was like kinky on the top and like a broom on the bottom. So there was nothing to be done to it except that and I gotta say I kinda like it. And this song, let's see Blue Denim, was a little bit, probably written about Lindsey's blue eyes. Because he is the only real person I know that has those Blue Denim eyes and he gave them to Colton so I'm so happy about that. So it must've been written for Lindsey...when he broke up with me right before I found out I was pregnant with Colton." Stevie smiles.

"The next one is the 12th show of the Bella Donna tour, there were only 12 shows done because not only am I a solo artist, I'm in a band and said band was going back into the Studio so I had to go and I had already put in almost a year making the Bella Donna Album, doing the press and these shows so there were about five weeks of shows. There's a lot of interesting facets to this performance here. There was a very interesting guy dressed in purple,  who was of course...Colton..." 

"Prince." 

"Prince and ugh, Prince and I were already friends and he said good luck I know you'll be great and he left. This was Los Angeles California if you were going to be good this was where you needed to be good. This was the Beverly Wilsher Theater. This song was written about John Lennon. I was in Australia when John Lennon was shot and I was of course so devasted as we all were whether you were a rockstar, a lawyer, or a rancher. Everybody was devastated and I didn't know John Lennon, but I knew him through Jimmy Iovine who had worked with John quite a bit in the seventies. And he told me all these wonderful stories about him, and you get to know someone through stories especially when it was your boyfriend who was the one that worked with him. When I came home from Australia I went to my house in Paradise Valley to my Bosendorfer and I started to write this song. Right when I got to Phoenix my Uncle Bill, who was my dad's older brother got cancer and got very very sick very fast and died in a couple of weeks. And the strange thing about that death was my cousin John Nicks and me were in the room when my uncle died. Where were his brothers, where was my dad, and his younger brother and the wives and all the other relatives. We don't' know it was just John and I there so that was as a part of this song where I say I went running down the hallways looking for somebody. So at that point, I went back to the Piano and finished. So it really became a song about violent death which was very scary to me because really in my family no one had really died, to me the White Winged Dove, for John Lennon was the Dove of Peace. And the white-winged dove for my uncle is the white-winged dove that lives in Saguaro Cactus and that's how I found out about the white-winged dove and the dove does make that cooing sound so the white-winged dove became as you can see on my face as always a tragic, a sad, dramatic and every time I sing that song I have the ability to go back to my month period where it all came down. This song became the last song that I do in my set it remains the same. I've never changed I can't imagine ending my show with any other song than this one. The vocals are the same the harmonies are the same only sometimes the players change."

The next song that pops up is Sometimes it's a Bitch and Livinia swoons at the baby pictures of her mother.

"So this song was written by John Bon Jovi." She starts.