I’m not coming home for three weeks and that’s hard, but it just causes you to make the most of the time that you have when you are at home.
The boys with Charlie Daniels (Courtesy BBS)
crew guys, including the driver. So we all travel on one bus.
Wow. So they set up the equipment and everything then… Yeah.
Wow. That’s a lot of work. It is. They work hard.
I know you guys, most all of you have got families. How do you manage to balance being on the road so much with home life and do it successfully? I know for some of the bands that I’ve spoken with in the past, it didn’t work out well. But you guys seem to have a pretty good grip on it. Well, I think it’s an important thing with wives to balance it all out. For my wife, I was doing this when I met her so that makes it a little eas- ier to swallow, to being gone so much. It’s still hard, you know, especially when your kids start coming along. I’ve got two sons, my youngest is two, but I’m lucky. I can only speak for myself really on this but I’m lucky to have a very sup- portive wife and she loves the music, always ha, s and she never questions the amount of time that we’re gone. She knows that it pays the bills, you know.
Yeah, it’s a job. Of course we all get bummed out, you know.
Yeah, for sure. One thing I’ve noticed from the 7-billion Blackberry Smoke videos on YouTube is that you’ve man- aged to either sit in with or have sat in with you some pretty great guys. I was watching one this morning with Billy Gibbons and you guys together. Without saying play favorites or anything, who some folks that you personally really en- joyed jamming with. Well, Billy of course and George Jones. You know, we recorded the song “Yesterday’s Wine” with George and Jamey Johnson. And then, as if that wasn’t good enough or cool enough, you know, enough of a dream come true... I was telling my wife the other day... Well, before I say that, we were passing through Nashville, we were on tour and George was playing his last show, what turned out to be his last show at the Ryman. And our management and his manage- ment were friendly and they said, “Well hey, do you want Charlie and Jamie Johnson to come and do ‘Yesterday’s Wine’ at the show?” And they said, “Absolutely!” So we were like, okay, let’s swing through Nashville, so there we go. Well, Jamie couldn’t make it. He had to go to Miami or something, I don’t remember. So I thought, “Well, okay, maybe next time.” But they said, “No, go and do it. It’ll be just the two of you.” So I got to do a duet with George Jones at the Ryman.
Oh my goodness gracious.
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