song: Don't Tell Our Friends About Me
artist: Blake Mills
album: Heigh Ho (2014)
writer: Blake Mills

acoustic guitar + electric guitars: Blake Mills
electric bass: Don Was
vocals: Blake Mills, Fiona Apple

This song is the main single off the Heigh Ho album. The prominent guest appearance by Fiona Apple happened, after the two toured together in the years 2012-14, with Blake Mills often as both opening act and guitarist in her band. As Blake Mills tells in a live clip, Fiona Apple also wrote the response lyrics of the female voice in the third Chorus.

Also, check out the live performance (see video below) to see Blake Mills play the chords in the original tuning.

“ There’s a song I had heard Sonny Boy Williamson do called … “Keep It to Yourself”. It’s basically the same song. It’s a point in a relationship that, if you’re lucky enough to get that far, have mercy. ” – Blake Mills

“ This is kind of an interesting tuning [E A D G B♭ F]. I don't remember the point when I came across it, but I know that it came from really enjoying this voicing of B♭ that had the open D-string as the 3rd. (...) I liked that open D, so I kept trying to find ways of playing around in that position, but when you get to the B- and E-string, you run of out fingers. So, I brought the B-string down to B♭ and the E-string up to F. And so, now, there is this sort of dulcimer kind of chorus effect going on with all the different voicings that you can do with the remaining fingers. ” – Blake Mills