Kevin Cronin

You know, I listened to it, of course.

I was curious.

And I was also... I went through a pretty dark period when my solo career didn't take off.

And that lasted for, you know, a good nine months of kind of isolation.

Had an apartment up on Marine Drive in Chicago.

Little studio place.

I wasn't really seeing too many people.

I'd stopped going down to the wooden nickel office because, you know, what am I doing down there?

I met a few people, and I finally started playing again.

I started going back to the clubs, playing solo.

And I had a new kind of energy or something.

Something was different.

My voice was... I'd healed my voice, and I was just... And I started writing again.

I wrote a song called Keep Pushin'.

Walking down the street in downtown Chicago, and it just came to me, the cadence I was walking with, and that song was kind of like, I made a demo of it, made a demo with it with some great Chicago players, but I thought, I could hear REO doing this song.

Interesting.

Yeah.

That demo got back to the band somehow because Irving's partner is a guy named John Barak.

I was always closest to him with the management.

I think I must have sent that demo to John.