was a guitar player that worked with you named Kirk McKim. Oh yeah, Kirk.
Yeah, he’s playing with Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters now. Yeah. Right. And he was with Pat Travers before that.
Pat Travers, Boom, Boom, yeah… Big time. Nice guy. A lot of guitar players I’ve had in my band have played with some really good people, you know. Right now, one of my other guys is with Al Jarreau.
Oh, nice. John Calderone. Yeah, a lot of my guys have been really top notch. There are a lot of great guitar players here in Houston so I’ve had quite a few of them over the years. They come and stay for a couple of years and then decide to do their own thing. Getting back to the Agitators question though, we had that name for the first two CDs and the only rea- son I dropped that name was people could just not spell it right, or they would call us something else. You don’t know how many times we showed up places and it would say, “Mark May and the Alligators.”
The Alligators? Yeah, of course. Yeah. I had that happen to me dozens of times until finally we just said, “You know what? Let’s just be the Mark May Band.” About the time my Doll Maker CD came out is when we changed it to The Mark May Band. That just simplified it.
Yeah, the Doll Maker record, man, that was the first one I ever heard of yours.
I loved it. Tell me a little bit about how you ended up hooking up with Dickey Betts and playing in Dickey Betts’ band. Okay. Yeah, right. So we were touring some around Florida,and I have some friends over there that came to see me, some fans, and I got to know ‘em pretty well. And one of the guys owned a golf shop that Dickey shopped in and he got to be pretty good friends with Dickey and they would go to lunch and coffee together and stuff like that. And I had my Calling the Blues album out, the first one, and he said, “Man, Dickey, you ought to listen to this record of this friend of ours from Hous- ton.” And I asked Dickey about it and he said, “You know Mark, people give me CDs all the time” and he goes, “I never listen to any of them, really. So I just threw them in my glove box you know, and Jimmy just would not let up on me about listening to your CD I got so tired of hearing him ask me about it so I said ‘I’m just gonna listen to it,’ so I can tell him what I think about this guy and get him off my back.” He said when he put it in he was ‘pleasantly surprised’ and thought I sounded kind of like Freddie King, which I never thought I did but I’ll take it for sure ,you know? And he liked my Albert Collins kind of
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