But then right after that I just jumped right into the middle of it. (Laughs)
Yeah. It was keeping you away from what you needed to be doing, actually. Another thing I read about on some of your information is that you had been on Prairie Home Companion, is that right? Yeah. I opened for Garrison Keilor a few years ago in Pennsylvania when he didn’t have his group with him and it was just him, and then just a few years back, I was at the Fox with
you know, behind the scenes and how he worked, he was really a genius at what he did. It was amazing to watch him.
Oh yeah. Well, other than the fact that you’re a great singer and guitar player, you’re also one fantastic songwriter and I know you’ve had cuts by KoKo Taylor who I had to pleasure of interviewing for Goldmine magazine and she was just a sweetheart, man. I mean, I loved her. But you had some songs on her al- bums, right? Yeah. Her last two albums, I had a song on ‘em, yeah. And she told me, she said, “As long as I make albums, you will always have a song on ‘em.” I called her my “Blues Mama.”
She was one sweet girl man, she was something else. After I talked to her and I asked her for an autographed pic- ture and she sent me one and she had written all around the edges of it, all this stuff about “God Bless you, Michael” and all this kind of stuff, it was just really special. And then Shawn Murphy cut some of your music, right? Shawn Murphy, yeah, she has a brand new album out.
Garrison Keilor and E.G. him in Atlanta.
Cool. Well, you know, his band backed me up and it was his Prairie Home Companion show.
Oh my gosh! That is a great. I saw that show when it came to Spartanburg one time and we all came down and watched it and I just really liked him- and of course this week, he an- nounced that he’s retiring from it. He’s hand- ing it over to somebody else. I forget who it was that’s taking over, but I al- ways liked that guy’s stories and every- thing, you know? He was really something else. To watch him,
I’ve got to get up with her. I’ve got to talk to her because I’m a fan of her, too, ever since “Meatloaf and Stony.” (Laughs). She told me about that the other night. We had dinner recently, a couple of weeks ago in Nashville and it was amazing. I told her she needed to write a book because she was talk- ing about how she started out and all these people she’s sung back up with and worked with over the years and it was just amazing stories. But she is a powerhouse vocalist and I’ve just been so excited that she cut two of my songs on her latest CD. But she’s just down-to- earth and kind and as sweet a person as you’ll meet.
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