that, by the way. Well, I enjoyed it. I sure did. And getting to hear, you know, y’all.
I tell you what. People still talkin’ about you. Oh goodness!
Yeah, a lot of people that had not heard you before. You know, that Silver Travis Band that I brought up from Spartanburg - they were all just blown away, they are all still talking about you. Not just your songs and your singing but your guitar play- ing. The lead guitar player, Randall, he was sitting there beside me and he was grin- nin.’ I was like, “Boy, he is enjoying this!” It was really cool. Oh great! Well, I sure enjoyed it and I appreciate all those kind words those guys have been say- ing. I’ve gotten several emails from ‘em and the guy that did the lead singing, what was his name?
Rick. Rick Cash. Man, can he sing!
Yeah. He’s always been one of my fa- vorite singers since we met. When they started, they were just kids about 1981, out of high school and I was working with them and I was always, you know, 8 or 9 or 10 years older or whatever, you know. I was writing songs for ‘em and doing the sound and all. Of course they did that and they broke up in ’84 or ’85, something like that, and got back together in 2007 I think it was and started recording albums but yeah, Rick’s gotta voice, it’s like… I don’t know, it’s not like anybody else, really.
It cuts through. You know, it cuts through you. A lot of times when you have live bands play- ing, you know sometimes the vocalist will get kind of lost, or maybe not even be with the music, and you can’t understand the words real well sometimes. But Rick’s voice just car- ried so well, and uh, it made me just stop. And the band was great, I thought.
E.G. with the late, great Koko Taylor
Oh yeah. Well, thank you. I wouldn’t mind singing with them sometimes.
Oh yeah!? Well, there you go man… I’ll tell ‘em. Okay.
E.G., tell me a little bit about your latest album, A New Day. We reviewed it and it was really, really good. Tell us just a little bit about the album. When I cut that album I had just had a real bout with meningitis and encephalitis and did- n’t think I was going to be around to ever sing again, much less write or record. But a lot of these songs started coming to me after I got where I could write again. It took over a year for me to write again but it’s kind of a healing
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