She urges listeners to consider Bowie’s documented love of Elvis Presley, who began his career as a country star, and Bowie’s cover of the country track “It Ain’t Easy” by Ron Davis, recorded during his 1971 “Hunky Dory” sessions and released on 1972’s “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.” It might have not been his thing, she said, but that didn’t mean he never listened to country music. “I think he had a very difficult relationship with certain parts of America including country music.” “Hate is a strong word,” said Tiffany Naiman, UCLA’s director of music industry programs and an expert on Bowie, of the icon’s feelings toward the genre. “And the fact that David Bowie’s catalog got picked up and they decided to do something special like this, and list him as a songwriter on the song, is a really cool thing.”īut how would Bowie himself feel about the posthumous collaboration? That’s the end goal of the song: to make you feel like you’re in it,” Young told The Associated Press. “It tackles universal themes that a lot of people can related to. Young writes many of his own songs, but when he first heard the demo written by Ashley Gorley, Josh Thompson and Frasure, he knew he wanted to record it. WCM A&R executive Spencer Nohe then pitched the song to Young’s team while their legal counsel, Steve Butler, negotiated the deal. He added that it is an honor to have Bowie’s music “be heard in the country genre.” “Interpolations to me are a way of tipping a hat to my heroes and maybe even introducing their music to a new audience.” “Getting the call from Bowie’s estate and Warner Chappell to creatively explore his catalog was an exciting day,” Frasure said in a statement.
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