{"id":550560,"date":"2015-03-25T11:16:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/?p=550560"},"modified":"2015-03-25T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T17:17:16","slug":"exclusive-song-premiere-boz-scaggs-teams-up-with-bonnie-raitt-for-new-track-hell-to-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/articles\/exclusive-song-premiere-boz-scaggs-teams-up-with-bonnie-raitt-for-new-track-hell-to-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Exclusive Song Premiere: Boz Scaggs Teams Up With Bonnie Raitt for New Track &#8220;Hell to Pay&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re only going to have one original on an album filled with classics, it better measure up. And Boz Scaggs felt that &#8220;Hell to Pay,&#8221; his sole songwriting credit on his forthcoming <em>A Fool to Care <\/em>(out March 31)\u00a0certainly did.<\/p>\n<p>He initially thought of Lucinda Williams as a duet partner on the track, but he wound up using her on his rendition of The Band&#8217;s &#8220;Whispering Pines.&#8221; Then his recording engineer suggested Bonnie Raitt, which <em>A Fool to Care<\/em>\u00a0producer Steve Jordan seconded. &#8220;I was scared to call Bonnie. I&#8217;m sort of in awe of Bonnie,&#8221; Scaggs\u00a0confesses. &#8220;So Jordan called Bonnie and we sent Bonnie the demo and the lyrics and she fell for it and she came up to the house and we spent a day together. She&#8217;s just a really strong musician, a remarkable woman. 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