TPAUL HORNSBY HE KUDZOO INTERVIEW


by Michael Buffalo Smith He was a member of the Men-Its with


Eddie Hinton and The Hour Glass with Duane and Gregg Allman. He was a sound en- gineer and a member of the house band at Capricorn Studios. He produced all of the original albums by The Marshall Tucker Band, and the great Fire On the Mountain album by The Charlie Daniels Band. He pro- duced records by bands like Wet Willie and Eric Quincy Tate. He’s a member of the Ala- bama Music Hall of Fame. Now at long last, Paul Hornsby has released his own album, with a little help from his friends. This man is red hot!


Tell us a little about where you were born and raised. Actually, my Daddy was in the Army in World War II and my mother was out with him and she was about ready to have me. She was about ready to “rake straw” as they say. (Laughing) That’s when a cow’s fixin’ to have a calf they go to rakin’ straw. Well she got ready to rake straw, she came home to her parents, my grandparents, outside of Elba, Alabama, out in what they call the “flats.” That is out in the Swampee River swamps and she had me so of course, a lot of times if you happened to look up in the biography of me or something it’ll say “from Elba, Alabama,” but I was born there and stayed there a few days so I guess you could say I was from the


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Photo by Peggy Peck: Maconga City Limits


flats but I was raised outside of New Brockton and Enterprise, Alabama. That was about 14 miles over. Way out in the country, out and around Pea River but Pea River runs through all them places.


Well, that’s interesting. I was going to ask you about music. What was your first exposure to music and when did you decide you wanted to try to do it


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