Ruthie Foster is talking about recording You Don't Miss Your Water with the song's writer, William Bell, for her latest album, Let It Burn.
Bell, she says with a sense of awe that comes clearly down the line from Austin, Texas, is a living legend. The co-writer of blues standard Born Under A Bad Sign and one of the creators of the Stax Records sound in the 1960s, his presence in the studio had such an effect on Foster that they had to retake the song several times.
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