Oh yeah, yeah. He seems like a lot of fun. He is, he is.
It reminded me when you were talking about Cream, there was a band that you did, what was it? Two or three years ago? You had a trio or something that played… Oh, Rufus Huff.
That was a fun thing. Great CD. Yeah, that kind of started out as a little jam band and I don’t know how it happened. It wasn’t even thought out. Next thing you know we had a CD. I think the CD was re- leased around 2009. And you know what? We still get a lot of response from that CD from Europe. It was Jared Aron on vocals, Chris Hardesty on drums, Dean Smith on bass and me. It was like a trio with a singer and it was a little heavier thing, I’m not gonna say heavier than the Headhunters, but it was just a different take.
It kind of reminded me of Cream,Hen- drix or Mountain. Yeah, it was more three piece and it was just a different thing. I don’t know, it didn’t ever break up, it just…
Faded away? Everybody was doing different things, and we keep talking to everybody you know; they’d say we need to do a Rufus Huff Volume Two. Joe Bonamossa was a huge fan of that band. He tried to get us to go on the road with him, and he still talks about it. Every time I see him he talks about Rufus Huff, you know. Maybe one of these days, Michael, you know, when things slow down we might do a Vol- ume Two or something like that if we’ve got the energy.
Yeah, that’d be cool. You know the
other project that I dearly love that you were in was the Mighty Jeremiahs. Oh Lord, that was another fun thing, to get to work with Jimmy Hall. Oh my goodness gra- cious yeah. He’s so good.
Yeah he’s the best of the South. I mean he’s “the guy.” I mean you know, I mean really. Him and Gregg Allman, I guess, those two. There’s a lot of great singers out there, but those two right there are just something else. And getting to work with him in that process was wonderful. It’s now out of print unfortu- nately.
Oh, is it? Yeah, it really is. I hate to say that but gosh, that would take 30 minutes to talk about. That record company went out of business, so unfortunately it’s out of print right now. It may come back some day though.
Well, the subject matter that you guys put out there had a real “gospelly” thing going, I dearly love that. The jest of it was like taking gospel messages, but putting it out in a way that people could… you know, if they were out drinking on Satur- day night and they wanted a little something new to listen to, you know, they would get a little gospel message or a little uplifting mes- sage and that’s what it was all about.
Yeah, that’s great man. I had been hearing Gov’t Mule for years doing “John the Revelator,” but you guys had it on your CD and I just loved your ver- sion so much too. Thank you.
Kickin’!! Thank you. Yeah, that’s a great song. And Gov’t Mule. We love Warren Haynes. I’ve known Warren Haynes since 1982 when he was with David Allan Coe, but they’re really
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