So Fragile, So Blue William Shatner, Ben Folds, National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, Steven Reineke

• 1 Shatner, Folds: Welcome and Introduction to "Eight Days on the Water" 02:25
• 2 Bischoff: Eight Days on the Water 04:51
• 3 Shatner: William Shatner introduces "The Meaning" 00:31
• 4 Bischoff: The Meaning 07:11
• 5 Shatner: William Shatner introduces "Are You the Bayou?" 01:07
• 6 Miller: Are You the Bayou? 04:08
• 7 Shatner: William Shatner introduces "I'll Be With You" 00:32
• 8 Bischoff: I'll Be With You 03:45
• 9 Shatner: William Shatner introduces "I Want to Be a Tree" 00:42
• 10 Witcher: I Want to Be a Tree 03:04
• 11 Shatner: William Shatner introduces "So Fragile, So Blue" 02:18
• 12 Courage, Bischoff: So Fragile, So Blue (Live Version) 08:45
• Total Runtime 39:19

Info for So Fragile, So Blue

This album is about something we all have in common; this beautiful planet Earth that we all call home.

It’s also about friends.Old friends and new friends.

Ben Folds came into my life many years ago. I received a letter from a guy named Ben Folds and it says, you know, “I heard this album you had made” (It was the first one I made called The Transformed Man.) He had found it in a garage sale, played it and he liked it. He wrote to me saying he would like to work with me. Ben wrote a song for me and he put it on his album. The album was Fear of Pop. The song he wrote was called “In Love” and I performed it. Thusly began my relationship with Ben Folds. Another friend of mine is a gentleman

named Robert Sharenow. Over the years we used to meet for dinner. We established a friendship over these dinners; we were both interested in what each other had to say and became quite wonderful friends. One day, Robert brought Dan Miller. Dan Miller turned out to be a university friend of his. Dan was into music and Robert was interested in writing. They had a musical group at university.

Then, Dan went his way, Robert went his way and they remained friends, but it was quite separate. Dan was doing his music, which I think culminated in They Might be Giants, which was a very popular group. Robert went into show business. One day at dinner Robert brings Dan and the three of us are having fun, eating and talking and Dan says, “You know, we should do an album together” And we all decide it’s a great idea. And Robert said, let’s do it about Bill’s stories because I always have a story of some kind.

Then COVID hits and we couldn’t go to dinner anymore, but we could communicate by Zoom. I would tell a story and Robert would start to write it. We sent messages back and forth about the lyrics of the particular story and then finally we establish what the lyrics are. Then, we would send it to Dan who put the lyrics to a musical track. It was so beautiful for us that we continued writing songs even removed by COVID and by 3,000 miles. We wrote maybe 20–25 songs in this way.

In 2021 I went up into space. I happened to be in New York, doing some work before I went to the desert where the rocket was. I met Robert and Dan for dinner and of course began to talk about writing a song about going up into space and made some notes.

“This album is about something we all have in common; this beautiful planet Earth that we all call home.” (William Shatner)

William Shatner, vocals
Ben Folds, artistic director
National Symphony Orchestra
Steven Reineke, conductor

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