good purveyors of bringing back nice blues… they did a nice acappella version of “John the Revelator,” and they also did “Grinning in Your Face.”
Yeah, boy. Some great, great, great stuff.
With Warren, you never know what he’s going to pull out. When it was a three piece with Alan Woody, I loved that. Me and my wife would go on dates to see them, just wondering what they were going to play as far as cover songs, you know…”Low Spark of High Heeled Boys,” or something from Alice Cooper’s “Love it to Death” album, or maybe “When Doves Cry” by Prince . Oh they’re a great band; they’re a great band. Absolutely. I sat in with them about twice; one time I blew up Warren’s spare amp. (laughs)
Oh, that’s a good way to do it, yeah. (Laughing) You know how Warren is, he’s got one of the best memories of anybody so every time I see him now it’s like ”Don’t blow my amp up!” (Laughs) He’s just kidding, of course. He’s a sweetheart. I love him. I re- ally do.
I wanted to touch on something that I really liked that you recently did, and that’s the album Meet Me in Bluesland. Tell me about Johnnie Johnson and working with him because that was some mighty fine music on that album right there. Well, thank you. That was a labor of love if there was such a thing, that was it. Back in 1991, I’m thinking, we were up for a Grammy so we went to New York City to the Grammy Awards. I think we were up for Electric Barn- yard that year, and we went to a pre-party the night before, to a little deal and there were all these people, you know. As Richard says, “All
was on it, Eric Clapton was on it - so on the bus trip up, we were all listening to that CD, just loving it, going “yeah man, this is cool stuff.” But we had no idea we were going to meet Johnnie Johnson up there, but we met him. So we made a beeline over to the table of course and started talking with him. Our manager and his manager immediately sensed that there’s a sort of comradery here, you know, maybe the Headhunters needed to do his next album… and I don’t think we won the Grammy that year. We did win the Grammy the year before, but we went back home and went back to life as we knew it. It was about this time in 1992 we got to talking
the peacocks and the flavors of the moment” were there. The cool thing was I saw Warren Haynes was there, and the Allman Brothers were there, and Buddy Guy and sitting at a table was Johnnie Johnson. And the funny thing is, we were all big Chuck Berry fans and we were fully aware that Johnnie Johnson was the piano player on all those classic Chess Record sides so we were all fans. Right before that trip, I had just picked up his latest re- lease on Electra Records called Johnny B. Bad, which was produced by Terry Adams and NRBQ. NRBQ was on it, Keith Richards
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