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Benson Boone Collaborator Evan Blair on Crafting ‘Mystical Magical’: ‘Does It Make Sense? Does It Matter?’

Benson Boone's co-writer and producer Evan Blair talks working on the songs "Beautiful Things" and "Mystical Magical."

Below, Blair talks about his work catching “lightning in a bottle” as Boone’s collaborator, why he never feels like he has to tell Benson no, and what fans might be able to expect from the rest of American Heart, out June 20. But I think there’s something about the two of us — and then the three of us, with Jack [LaFrantz] — there’s an environment of like, “Let’s also have some fun.” Benson is such a musical super force that he’s almost like this lightning in a bottle that I have to try to catch every day in the session. I get to let him just kind of go wild, and it really tests musical ability and years of production experience to be able to not mess with that, but also to put it in a container and somehow harness it.

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