song: Cry to Laugh
artist: Blake Mills
album: Heigh Ho (2014)
writer: Blake Mills

nylon-stringed acoustic guitar + vocal: Blake Mills
double bass: Don Was

This great ballad display Blake Mills’ impressive skills, both in finger-picking technique and in arranging of chord voicings. Also, check out the solo-guitar performance (see lower video).

“ This one has a lot of really fun chord voicings in it. I'm a huge fan of Randy Newman's piano playing. And, a lot of his moves, where ... you're going back and forth and doing this sort of accidental, and bringing it back into the chord; just how big of a sound that is. I really like the way that that translates to guitar. So, there is some Randy Newman-moves [in the song]. ” – Blake Mills