lifeblood: songs: background: compromise

amy ray quote from 10/01/1999: indigo girl, the duke chronicle:

you were in cuba in march and worked on "compromise" there, didn't you?

"we did it as a musical exchange. someone asked us to go down there, and it was the best opportunity to go to cuba legally, basically, and have free rein of all these musicians and art. [then] we did a kind of a latin version [of "compromise"] with a band down there. i recorded it on a dat player. you're not allowed to use any of the recordings you get down there because of the embargo. you can release them on computer."

how about putting that on mp3?

"i have to go listen to it because i don't know how [good it is]."

amy ray quote from 12/17/1999: transcription, yahoo chat:

"oh, boy, that's a really complicated song for me to explain. so... i took the relationship between two people where their sort of paths in life are not politically opposed to each other, but the way they achieved their goals sometimes are in conflict with each other. and i used that as a metaphor for what i consider to be some of the bigger issues of the world, with references to sweat shops, patriarchy, anthropology and environmental devastation. but in all those things, saying to the person that i'm talking to, that i understand that the way we're going about these things is different, but i need that person."