she was coming from like the doo-opp, the broadway musical and jazz, john coletrane was a big influenceher. and coming from the basic folk genre as well. and all of it is combined in to this kind of organic whole, where you get -- where you then just focus on the drama and the power of the stories that she is telling. >> great story teller, she was half italian and jewish. changed the spelling of her last name. >> yes, it was n-i-g-r-o. >> she had, i have to be a nigro too, so she changed it to nyro. in ducted in to the rock askand roll hall of fame. >> well deserved. >> dies in '97. of? >> ovarian cancer, the same disease that claimed her mom at the same age. >> way too young. >> way too young. >> you have some speaking of young, you have have young folk and not so young folk on the project. i mean, everybody and their mother -- >> yeah, i know. >> all of your friend s showed p for this one. >> lisa fisher and yoyo mmp a, ricky lee jones, alison krauss, and spaulding and wayne shorter. everybody. >> yeah. >> it turned in to this thing that, you know, it started out with this idea i had