just enjoying being there and meeting all these wonderful people. By the time the third one rolled around Dennis and I had our record out and we were invited to open the Jam. We played almost all of them after that. We ended up being on two of the Volunteer Jam albums. “Sang Her Love Songs” was on the Volunteer Jam III & IV album and then we did a song called “Rich Kids” that was on the Volunteer Jam VI album.
What was the story with Coast to Coast Live? Coast to Coast was supposed to be our second album, on the Rabbit / Atco Record label and well, it’s a long story. We went down to Miami to do it with Taz producing and we spent about ten days down there recording and it just wasn’t hap- pening, for one reason or another, so we ditched that ef- fort and took a break. Charlie Daniels was on the road around that Thanksgiving time 1977 and Dick Wooley got us some time at Capri- corn and we got in with producer Paul Hornsby. And we went in and did the songs we wanted to do. We came out with what we thought was a really good product, but At- lantic record representatives came down and listened to the final mix and said they just
didn’t hear any singles. Dick tried really hard, but he just couldn’t find any labels that wanted to pick it up. So it just sat on the shelf until my wife, Paula, contacted Paul Hornsby and he said he had masters of the final mix. We got copies and had some pressed up just to sell at shows and stuff under the name The Lost Album, aka Coast to Coast. There are two live cuts on the album. We recorded them at Rose’s Cantina in Atlanta.
(L to R) Don Winters, Marty Robbins, Dennis Winters, Donnie Winters.
Did you work with other artists during the 70s? If so, please share. We opened shows for a lot of famous acts, a lot of them were due to our work with Marshall Tucker and Charlie Daniels Band. We got to work with Levon Helm, after The Band; we opened shows for the Allman Brothers, and we did several shows with Lynyrd Skynyrd. We
were supposed to go back out
with them again when their plane crashed.
Did you know Waylon? He's one of my old heroes and I just wondered. I knew Waylon but not as well as Dennis did. Dennis worked for Waylon driving his truck and then bus and I was fortunate enough… Dennis asked me if I wanted to do a coast to coast relief driver thing with him one time and got to spend some time with them.
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