What was it like working with The Black Crowes Rich Robinson on “Where the Wind Blows?
” We were hanging out in New York going over lots of stuff in the studio about four or five months before we officially started recording the album. I just showed Rich the songs. I wrote lyrics over some music that he had for a song. I showed him “Where the Wind Blows” and we tracked it down and demoed it. That was the first time we worked on it. You’ve played with everyone from AC/DC and Lynyrd Skynyrd to Kid Rock and Erykah Badu. What separates your live show? A lot of rock bands nowadays don’t really understand the R&B side of rock ‘n’ roll—the rhythm side and the blues side. They’re very straight. We have a groove though. At our live show, people dance and they move. We’re very different than Erykah Badu, but there’s a common thread of R&B in our music and hers that can gel together. When we play with bands like AC/DC, we’ll mold the set to the crowd. If we’re playing an AC/DC, we’re going to bring the rock a lot more than we would if we were playing with James Taylor. It’s been am
