S5 E7: John Leventhal on Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
b'This week, six-time Grammy-winning producer, songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist John Leventhal\\u2014see Shawn Colvin\\u2019s A Few Small Repairs; his wife, Rosanne Cash\\u2019s The River and the Thread\\u2014discusses the song that first hipped him to the genius of Willie, 1975\\u2019s \\u201cBlue Eyes Crying in the Rain.\\u201d He describes it with a producer\\u2019s ultimate praise, calling it a record that seems to exist outside of any era, before getting into his session work with the Hall of Fame band that backed Willie on 1993\\u2019s Across the Borderline, plus the reasons he thinks of Willie as a cross between legendary Nashville guitarist Grady Martin and Pablo Picasso...and his late father-in-law, Johnny Cash, as a cross between Elvis and Abe Lincoln.'