How did that kind of resolve wind up influencing One All?
Finn: I wanted to start this record off with a bunch of musicians in the room. I met Wendy & Lisa through Tchad Blake, the co-producer on the record and an old friend. I met [bassist/keyboardist] Wendy Melvoin in the studio, then the day after we were at Tchad s place and we wrote a song. Sheryl Crow toured with Crowded House on her first record. It s been a connection since, because Tchad s been mixing her records. She just lived up the road, so it only took a call. As much as it worked fine on my first solo album Try Whistling This, it s a lonely thing when you re on your own in the studio. You want to have other people in there to perform for and to talk about music with. VH1: Is writing with other people a different process than you re used to? Finn: It s always different when somebody else is in the room. When you start playing something, it doesn t always sound good straight away. So it s about how relaxed you can be when not sounding very good for a while. You go through a perio
