"Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down" is a song by
Scott Weiland
Scott Richard Weiland (; né Kline, October 27, 1967 – December 3, 2015) was an American singer and songwriter. During a career spanning three decades, Weiland was best known as the lead singer of the rock band Stone Temple Pilots from 1 ...
first appearing on the ''
Great Expectations Soundtrack'' and then later on his debut album ''
12 Bar Blues
The 12-bar blues (or blues changes) is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music. The blues progression has a distinctive form in lyrics, phrase, chord structure, and duration. In its basic form, it is predominantly based on ...
''. The song features the stylistic guest-accordion work of
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, pop, country, folk, and blues. She has released eleven studio albums, five compilations and three li ...
.
Personnel
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Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, pop, country, folk, and blues. She has released eleven studio albums, five compilations and three li ...
- Accordion
*Joel Derouin - Violin
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Victor Indrizzo
Victor Indrizzo (born September 23, 1967) is an American session musician, primarily known for playing the drums, as well as a songwriter and producer.
Indrizzo was born in Freeport, Long Island, New York. He has toured, recorded and worked wi ...
- Piano, Guitar, Drums, Additional Vocals
*Susie Katayama - Cello
*Blair Lamb - Producer
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Martyn LeNoble
Martyn LeNoble ( nl, Martijn LeNoble; born 14 April 1969) is a Dutch bassist and a founding member of the alternative rock band Porno for Pyros.
He started his musical career by playing bass in a Dutch punk rock band when he was 14. In 1989, h ...
- Bass
*Robin Lorentz - Violin
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Novi Novog
Novi Novog is an American viola player. She is sometimes simply credited as "Novi" and is a cousin of Lauren Wood (also known as "Chunky"). In 1973, Novi became one of three members of her cousin's band Chunky, Novi and Ernie with the bassist Ern ...
- Viola
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Scott Weiland
Scott Richard Weiland (; né Kline, October 27, 1967 – December 3, 2015) was an American singer and songwriter. During a career spanning three decades, Weiland was best known as the lead singer of the rock band Stone Temple Pilots from 1 ...
- Vocals, Synthesizer
Charts
References
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1997 singles
Scott Weiland songs
Songs written by Scott Weiland
Songs written by Victor Indrizzo
1997 songs
Atlantic Records singles