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>> well, the material is undeniable so to have a songwriter like kris kristofferson sing a country song for you is -- >> rose: going back to his roots. >> well, it's going back to -- just a thrill, a great honor to have kris with us. >> when t-bone would talk to these people it would be like "all these guys have written better songs than me." (laughter) all these guys can write songs better than me. you know if the song was better we like steve's story but now -- >> rose: but it didn't snap >> no, it didn't. the. >> rose: they loved it. >> everybody we asked to be on it was on it. >> rose: in all honesty i think these are the best songs that john has ever written and one of the truisms about theater is that if you can send the audience out humming one of the songs from that show you've got a hit on your hands wand this one you have to pick which one you want to hum on the way out because they're all pretty thysty. >> rose: and meg ryan is in this? >> yup. >> rose: that must have been a hard get. >> yeah. i know her. (laughter) and -- i like her, you know? she doesn't like me much. you k

but we also see you, kris kristofferson. that's a great one. to get kris back out there. >> kris is one of our very best song writers. certainly meryl haggard and chris chrkris certainly meryl haggard and chris chrkri kristoffers kristofferson, right? it's an honor to john that kris would come sing his song and elvis would sing his song and neko is one of the very best record makers and she makes the extraordinarily beautiful deep sounding records and she's a deep soul, too. >> but she did john's best song to get all these people to do it, i think. >> i think he had ten years to write them and it's, like, a greatest hits record in a way, you know, of ten years. >> yeah. >> a lot of albums, you know, albums historically is a short period of time or gathered over a short period of time but now we've got a century of recorded music behind us and you can look at an album in all different ways and this is a big, long time to put together a group of tunes. >> and the way it worked is that steve would call me up and he'd go, john, you know, i need a s