just regrouped Grinderswitch so they were on there too and the Southern Rock All-Stars with the guys from Blackfoot and Molly Hatchet. It’s a cool little com- pilation. That’s the first time that I’d ever heard of y’all. About that time, y’all also played up at the Handlebar in Greenville and that was the first time I saw you play live. There wasn’t a huge audience at all back then, but you know… I liked it that way, I mean, I felt like “man this is pretty intimate, you know?” It was great. But I’m so glad that it’s gotten so huge. I hope it keeps getting bigger and bigger. ˚ I love it man, I mean, it’s been a lot of enjoy- ment to be a part of the growth, you know. To watch it. Just a little at a time,and when it hap- pens that way, you feel like you earned it, you know?
Yeah. Definitely. You earned it. You guys didn’t go on “America’s Got Talent” or something, you know. So… Right and we didn’t decide, “Hey, let’s change what we do and try and have a commercial hit.”
Yeah, I’ve got friends that I’ve kind of seen do that and it’s like, I’m not faulting them, but... No. People get frustrated and get tired of riding around in a van and they want to record a “pop- pie” song to try and get played on the radio and people do that. But then there are other people who don’t care about that. What they care about is feeling good about what they’re doing and feeling like they’re doing what they want to do or what they should do.
Sure. Yeah. Well, I want to ask you about guitars. I love guitars. But I don’t think I love guitars nearly as much as you do. I bet you don’t. (Laughs)
Because every song it seems like you’re playing a different guitar. you know. I wanted to ask you what your favorite guitars in your arsenal are? I know you play just about everything. I really like
that acrylic one that you play some- times? What is that… is that a Dan Arm- strong? That’s a Dan Armstrong. Yeah.
I always thought those were cool. For sure. My favorite is this old 1956 Les Paul
Junior. It belonged to Rick Richards from the Georgia Satellites for years. I’ve had it since ’93 and I’ve played it on every record and just about every show. It’s been in the shop a couple of times over the years for this and that. I’m al- ways getting guitars so I love ‘em all. I just got a ’65 Gibson ES330. What happened was when we were making Holding All the Roses, Bran- don, he brought a bunch of his guitars down - he’s got hundreds of guitars. He had a ’64 330 and I played it on “Rock & Roll Again” and “Livin’ in the Song” and I think I played the solo on “Holding All the Roses” - anyway, I played a bunch of stuff on the record on it and I fell in love with it and he would not sell it to me. I mean, I fell in that much love with it! I was like, “I’ve got to have this. I can’t leave here without it. I love it, it’s become a part of me now.” And he was like, “Ha, nice try. No way.” (Both laugh) So, I started looking and it took me a year to find a good one, because I was very specific with the details. Those guitars, they had some attributes, different attributes for differ- ent years. Unfortunately, I’ve got a good friend that can find just about any guitar I want. (Laughs) And he found me one and I said, “Al- right.” That’s a never-ending thing. I read a post online that said, “My biggest fear, when I
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