wanted to go on there and be like, “Zac was never even in the studio with us. He had noth- ing to do with it. He was the Executive Pro- ducer of the record.”
and soul into this and the last thing we want to hear… we’re proud of it, you knowand the last thing you want to see is somebody go, “I hate it!”
Like you say, it’s the first thing you hear because, I mean, I love the social media. I use Facebook and Twitter and all that stuff but there are so many people that I just picture cowering behind a computer at home just waiting for something to bitch about or say something negative about. Totally.
I just don’t get it. My mother, I’ve quoted this a million times, my mother taught me years ago, when I was a little boy, if you can’t say something good, just don’t say anything at all. Exactly.
You know? That’s great advice, yeah. When The Whip- poorwill came out, I don’t even know if we had a Facebook then, yeah, I guess we did maybe but we had a message board on our website that was pretty active. Before Facebook got so wide spread.
Yeah.
And I remember the week that it came out, it was the day after it came out, because we had signed to Zac Brown’s Southern Ground label and there was a whole thread on there about, “Zac Brown has ruined Blackberry Smoke.” I I
Right. Exactly. He hasn’t ruined anything. We made the record we wanted to make. But those people at the same time turned around six months later and said, “I changed my mind. It’s my favorite record that you’ve made!” So… (Buffalo laughs) I’m like, “Well, thank you! I mean, it sucks to have to see you go through this turmoil, but I appreciate it.” (Laughing)
Yeah. I had a man at a show not long ago come up and he had a CD and asked me to sign and I said “Okay” and signed it. He said, “What’s ‘The Woman and the Moon’ about?” and I said, “It’s about being different.” He said, “It’s not about your Mama?” I said, “No, it’s not about any- body in particular. It’s just about being differ- ent.” And he goes, “I don’t get it.” And I said, “Well, I’m sorry!” (laughs) Don’t hurt yourself tryin’ to! But uh, you know, sorry, I guess.
There are a whole of things I don’t “get, “too. I don’t get “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’s” lyrics, but I still enjoy it. (Laughing) One thing I wanted to tell you. Back in about 2001, I got hired by this record company in England that was called, Alice’s Records /Z-Rox records to do a Stars and Bars CD. I picked the bands, wrote the biographies and everything and you know, you guys were on it. Did you know about that? No, I didn’t.
Oh wow man, I’ll have to dig one of those up and get it to you ‘cause yeah, they wanted me to pick what I felt like was the best “Southern Rock” bands in the world at the time and that was in 2001, so that was like right when you were getting going. And we had Dru Lumbar- he had
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