Suzy Bogguss Dreamt Of T. Graham Brown

11/03/1999 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(11/3/99, 1 p.m. ET) - Suzy Bogguss had an interesting time recording "Love is Blind" with T. Graham Brown. Her husband, Doug Crider, was watching from about eight feet away as Bogguss stared into Brown's eyes singing the love song her husband wrote. The couple is accustomed to working together after years of marriage, but balancing the two is sometimes difficult, Bogguss tells LAUNCH.

"The hard part comes when it's time to turn off, and have a date and have a real life and separate the working relationship from the personal relationship," she says. "That can be really touchy 'cause sometimes you think, 'Oh, this is so great 'cause we're out here on a date, and we're having a nice dinner, and everything's going so good, and we're conversing about things outside of the music business.' And then all of a sudden it's, like, 'Bam!' You're right back into the middle of it."

Bogguss says she dreamed of T. Graham Brown before she ever knew he would be her duet partner. "It sounds hokey, but it was sort of a revelation," she says. "I actually woke up at five o'clock in the morning, just punched [Doug] on the shoulder and said, 'It's a duet.' And he was just, like, 'What?' And I said, 'Yeah. "Love Is Blind"...it's a duet. I just heard it in my dream, and it was somebody with a really gritty voice singing it with me, and it was a perfect duet.'

"And when I thought about singing that song with [Brown], I thought, 'This is what I needed,' because I didn't feel like I was having enough impact in the song. And with him being so passionate and bigger-than-life, he kind of made me sing up to him."

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-- Tracy Lawson, Nashville

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