And that led to this, an equally ambitious Americana album, Largo, very loosely inspired by the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s 1893 New World Symphony.
The album was a song writing collaboration of Rick Chertoff, Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian of The Hooters, and David Forman and was produced by Chertoff and Hyman. Hyman, Bazilian and Forman, play and sing on the record. It also features Taj Mahal, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson from The Band, Joan Osborne doing several songs, one with Carole King, and Willie Nile, as well as several lesser known but fantastic people.
Finally, this is one of the gems Cyndi Lauper plays and sings on.
Just aa absolutely fantastic record that for some reason seemed to have “slipped through the cracks”.