old rehearsals from the Charlie Daniels Band doing Saddletramp, all that stuff out of Charlie’s house and old Capricorn recordings. There’s a treasure chest full of stuff in there.
Oh boy, there’s no doubt about it . I understand you did your first solo show for Creole Shoes - is that right? Yeah last weekend
How’d that go?
It went great! I was really excited about doing it. I was nervous about doing it. I put- ting together a band to do some dates in December and January and I wanted to get those guys together and rehearse but we didn’t have the time so what I did was I just came out with the tracks. Michael Bush who does my CD’s put together the tracks without the vocal and guitar on it and I just ran it through the sound system and sang live and played and it was just great.
I’d love to have seen that. Are you going to do some more solo dates? Yeah, I am. I am actually going to come out and I think Randy from the Outlaws, is going to play bass with \me and Henry’s son, Henry Paul IV, is going to play guitar with me and Dave Robbin’s from Blackhawk - his son Trey is going to play drums and we’re going to come up, hopefully, up through the northeast, and do some dates with the band Southern Steel, Bill Hipple and Dave Sorber and those guys.
Wow, that’d be great.
Yeah, that’ll be a lot of fun. I don’t know if I’ll make any money or not.
Well wait a minute, you’re a musician. Don’t be expecting to make money. (Laughs)
(Laughs) But I’ll tell you what, it’s not about
You’re right about that, and he’s right. When I was younger, in high school, and playing with Tommy and bands and stuff it was all about going out and playing music and hav- ing fun. It was much better. When it became about the money and making a living, that took all the fun out of it.
And suddenly, you have the guys in the three piece suits all around you telling you what to do and telling you every move to make. I’ve seen so much of that. I have not been on a major label, or any record label. I’ve just been independent. But I’ve witnessed it by hanging out with cats like you and see- ing how it all went down. And that’s what I like about people in our age group coming back and taking the con- trol of the music back. We don’t really need big record company guys coming in and basically ruining everything. No! You’re exactly right! Everybody has home studios. It used to be you’d have to spend $150,000 to go out to make a record and now you don’t have to do that anymore. You’ve got the internet and so many great avenues to advertise and get the music across for downloads. The big record compa- nies - they just throw money at radio sta- tions to get these songs played.
You can tell. Some of these songs are 22
that anyway. It’s just so much fun, you know?
I was talking to Hank about it the other day and he was saying, if you get into music or writing or anything like that, you’d better love it because if you’re getting into it to become a rock star or get rich, you’re doing it for the wrong reasons and it ain’t going to happen.
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