A Friend Of A Friend

Album: A Friend Of A Friend (2009)
Play Video

Songfacts®:

  • Rawlings wrote this song with Ryan Adams. He admitted to The Sun November 27, 2009 that his memories of writing this tune with the alternative rock singer-songwriter are blurry. Said Rawlings: "It was late one night at a party at my house in Nashville. Ryan started singing something and I played along until he stopped and I realised he was making it up. Then we sang a little more and added another part, then we got predictably distracted by someone or something. When in the next day or two I saw him again I said 'Hey, we should finish that song we were writing' and he said, 'What song?'... No recollection of it at all. So I played him what I could remember of it and we finished it up."

Comments

Be the first to comment...

Editor's Picks

Part of Their World: The Stories and Songs of 13 Disney Princesses

Part of Their World: The Stories and Songs of 13 Disney PrincessesSong Writing

From "Some Day My Prince Will Come" to "Let It Go" - how Disney princess songs (and the women who sing them) have evolved.

Barney Hoskyns Explores The Forgotten History Of Woodstock, New York

Barney Hoskyns Explores The Forgotten History Of Woodstock, New YorkSong Writing

Our chat with Barney Hoskyns, who covers the wild years of Woodstock - the town, not the festival - in his book Small Town Talk.

"Private Eyes" - The Story Behind the Song

"Private Eyes" - The Story Behind the SongSong Writing

How a goofy detective movie, a disenchanted director and an unlikely songwriter led to one of the biggest hits in pop history.

Director Wes Edwards ("Drunk on a Plane")

Director Wes Edwards ("Drunk on a Plane")Song Writing

Wes Edwards takes us behind the scenes of videos he shot for Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley and Chase Bryant. The train was real - the airplane was not.

Pete Anderson

Pete AndersonSongwriter Interviews

Pete produced Dwight Yoakam, Michelle Shocked, Meat Puppets, and a very memorable track for Roy Orbison.

Yacht Rock!

Yacht Rock!Song Writing

A scholarly analysis of yacht rock favorites ("Steal Away," "Baker Street"...) with a member of the leading YR cover band.