Sheryl Crow

When I was a kid, this album came out.

Songs in the Key of Life.

It was a double album.

It was at Stevie Wonder.

I'm a piano player.

I can play by ear.

And that was this.

This album made me feel like.

I don't know.

I mean, this is going to sound really weird, and I hope nobody is offended by it.

But when I was young, I would go into our living room.

I'd turn all the lights off, and I would learn his music.

I'd learned Love's in Need of Love Today.

And I would play it with my eyes closed to see what it felt like to be gifted like he was.

Now, I was never gifted like he was, obviously.

And thankfully, I'm not blind.

But I mean, I just feel like this album in particular...

Um, he went so far deep in spiritually to document what was going on.

Um,

in the world at the time, and if you can imagine doing that and being blind as a black man during the civil rights movement, to not be able to actually witness it visually, but to be able to bring it to music and document it, I still believe that that is the highest form of inspiration and that artists who, like him,