It's the treat. I'm Elvis Mitchell. Jeff Daniels is a stage star with successes and plays such as God of Carnage and to Kill a Mockingbird.

He's a movie star whose roles range from speed to Dumb and Dumber. And he's an Emmy-winning TV star, who we know from such shows as Newsroom, where we saw his love of music on screen.

He's also recorded his music with several albums of folk and blues to his credit.

For the treat, he goes back to an album that laid the groundwork for a musician who was maybe a couple records away from huge popularity.

If you feel that it's real, I'm on trial, and I'm heck and then you're present.

I'm Jeff Daniels.

This is the treat.

I'm like a coin in your main.

I am dented, and I'm spanned with my treason.

I'll tell you something that inspired me was Elton John's album 111770.

Take me to the pilot of your soul.

Take me to the pilot.

Give me to the planet. Take me to the pilot. I'm going to play. It was before you

It was before he went all glam rock.

It was just Elton, Nigel Olson, the drummer, and D. Murray, the bass player, a threesome.

They had played the troubadour in L.A. And I think they were back across the country in New York. And they blew the place up. Hey! I had been taking piano lessons, you know, playing

bum-p-pum-pum-p-greens sleeves and all this crap.

And then I heard that album.

And it wasn't just how you could play the piano in a way that was like cool,

but it was that freedom, that expression, that creative explosion that is on that album

with just three musicians.

Told you was a man who thought it wasn't

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