KEY SOUNDS


‘I HEARD I WAS IN TOWN’


GUY deBOER TALK SHOW HOST


Guitarist-singer-songwriter n


A N I N T E R V I E W W I T H Paul Cotton


Guy deBoer/GD:We have with us Mr. Paul Cotton — Paul Cotton famed from Illinois Speed Press and Poco. You are a rock legend. Paul Cotton/PC:Well, thank you. I heard I was in town.


GD: You’ve been a rock star literally for 40 years. Your career has taken you through different cities and a lot of different tours. PC: I’ve been in every state in the country and Europe seven times. I’ve been around the block.


GD:Tat’s quite a performance career. Yet you settled in the Florida Keys. Why? PC:W-O-M-A-N. My wife Caroline. We met in Oregon. We were playing a concert at the Benton County Fair in Corvallis Oregon, where she is from. But she has lived in Key West for 15 years. We met at the show. I ended up googling her. She said, “Oh, you found me on my island.” I had just finished recording this heavily nautical-inspired CD, and she told me to come to Key West. We’ve been together ever since. Tat was five years ago.


GD: I met you personally a year ago here in the Keys. You headlined our Benefit for Haiti on White Street, which was truly touching. PC:Tank you.


GD: You started in music at a very young age, which put you in an interesting time when rock was just growing. PC: I started music in kindergarten actually. My parents had the foresight to get me on piano Continued


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1970 Paul Cotton 2011 www.paulcotton.com


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