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Matraca Berg talked to The Boot about 'Wild Angels,' the 1996 No. 1 hit for Martina McBride, which she co-wrote with Gary Harrison and Harry Stinson.I started it with Harry. I don't know what we were smoking that day, but it was a very lofty kind of poetic lyric. I heard it last year and thought, "What was I thinking?" We demoed it, and every time Pat [Higdon, my publisher] would play it for somebody, they would say, "What does this mean?"
I knew that the lyric was off, but they loved the music, they loved the title. I'm not real good at rewrites. Once something's done, I'm done with it. So we brought Gary in for the rewrite, and it was just so simple. [He said], "You say 'wild angels, wild angels' -- what's this other thing, 'blue horses'?" And after we got that figured out, Martina snatched it up. Gary gave me an epiphany with that song: Get them a good kick-ass chorus, and you can write whatever you want to in the verses.
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Martina McBride - 'Wild Angels' (Live AOL Music Sessions Performance)
