I was surprised to learn today that the distinctive guitar sound from Sheryl Crow’s song My Favorite Mistake, is from Wendy Melvoin, who played guitar with Prince for much of her career. I learned this on the Dead Wax YouTube channel (which has some great guests, but I’m having a hard time with the over-the-top YouTube-thumbnail enthusiasm).

I was surprised to hear this, and hit up Wendy Melvoin on Wikipedia. You could spend a full day with the links on this page. A few that stuck out to me:

• Wendy’s father one of The Wrecking Crew players.
• Wendy’s brother Jonathan was a keyboard player who died of a heroin overdose while touring with the Smashing Pumpkins in 1996.
  • Jonathan’s death was part of the inspiration for the song Angel by Sarah McLachlan.
  • McLachlan’s song Angel features upright bass by Jim Creeggan of Barenaked Ladies.

This post is best read in the voice of Casey Kasem.