7/23/2023 0 Comments Rita wilson young![]() I read an article in the New York Times that said that,ĭuring Coronavirus, 75 percent of essential workers are women. Working in warehouses or in agriculture, or people upstairs at the bank that weĭon’t see. There that we don’t ever see, people who might be working in factories or “And then I started thinking about the women that are out Sometimes we look at that as not being that valuable, but it really is the most valuable thing, raising human beings and putting them out into the world.” She was a person who didn’t work the traditional job, but she was a Mom and raised a family and cooked and cleaned and made our dresses and made us laugh. And then I started expanding that into, yeah, that was kind of like my Mom. But I started thinking about the people that I knew that were single Moms and raising kids and having their Moms help them. And I have no issue with that, because there’s room for everything. I was thinking about how a lot of times, in country music, women are idealized in songs. And I’m always looking for what’s the story, what are they saying now. “I’m a big country music fan and I listen to country music by choice. “I go down to Nashville and write down there,” Wilson says of the song’s inspiration. Wilson is also receiving raves for “ Where’s My Country Song?”, an affecting ode to unsung heroes. You’re like ‘What? What are they trying to do there?’ That always throws you I think those things stand out in a song, whenever you hear something and Something like, ‘Hey, let me show you how I can do these fancy tricks over here.’ It should feel natural and like it came from a real place and not It’s almost like the two roads have to intersect at some point and The composing of it, so that you feel as if it’s guiding you more than you’re You have to be sensitiveĮnough to understand, to trust what’s coming through in the writing process and “I can’tĮxplain it other than it tells you what it wants to be,” she says of herĪpproach. Song, something borne of an instinctual reaction in the studio. Wilson gives a beautiful, understated performance of the Time, you’re a Mom and you don’t want to lose your kid.” You wouldn’t say, ‘No don’t do that.’ And at the same Of just saying, ‘I have no control over this.’ They’re off fighting for theirĬountry, so it’s noble. I think, for me, I felt connected to that emotion Make their decisions in their lives and you as a parent can no longer protect There is a mother who gave birth to that child. I always think of, whenever anybody is going off to battle, ![]() “The song had been started with Rod and Larry and I came inĪnd helped revise it to just clarify some ideas and to also have a female point Person to write with and showed enormous courage to even want to do that.” Take all of that into consideration when you’re writing. Think there was a sensitivity and a desire to tell the story of the song asĬlearly as we could and as truthfully as we could. It was a song that meant a lot to Rod, and I Where the soldiers sing it and then is a part of the end credits, was impactedĪnd made a bit more heartbreaking because Rod, the director, had lost his sonĭuring the filming of the movie. “First of all, it was an unusual situation, because the song, which is in the film Movies before, but I’ve never actually written with the director,” Wilson says. “It was so interesting, because I’ve written songs for Lost in Afghanistan as depicted in the film, and in part because of a somber Track is incredibly personal, in part because it reflects the true story of soldiers Wilson performs the song and isĪlso a co-writer with Larry Groupe and the film’s director, Rod Lurie. American Songwriter caught up with her recently to talkĪbout all this activity, beginning with “Everybody Cries,” which is heavilyįeatured in the new film The Outpost.
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