ways in trouble, you have to make it identifi- able immediately. s
It's like a play, it's like Shakespeare told us Everything has a beginning, middle and an end. Three acts, the first part you meet character, the second part the character is put in a situation and third part is the resolve, hopefully, not all the time but hopefully there is. So are you planning on putting out more of these stories? Well, you know, I have another collection ready called The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions, it's about twelve stories, I had it its ready to go it's just this new book sorta just emerged and took up my time, but yeah, I plan to release another.
I am very excited about your new book, Insured Beyond the Grave, Published Essay’s Interviews and Dispatches Volume 1. I am gonna have to use a word or haven't used in a long time - remarkable - because it’s not very often that I pick up a book and I start reading and I just really don’t want to put it down. But you kinda made me put it down for a minute, because you are writing about a couple of your friends in there inspired me to order their books. So, now that I finished Insured Beyond the Grave, I’m reading the Rolling Stones book that Stanley Booth did and I’m reading the Nashville Sound by Paul Hemphill because of you. That being said, your book really is remarkable. Thank You, Thank You
One of your interview subjects you mentioned a while ago, I know he is major influence on you, is Stanley Booth. Tell us a little about how you met him and give me your thoughts on Booth as a person and also as a writer.
Stanley Booth with James Calemine.
Just an overall kinda snapshot When I copped that book from the library, it was a hardback and in the back of it in the au- thor notes. Stanley lives in Brunswick, Geor- gia, which is like seven miles from where I grew up. I thought t”his is impossible,” and in those days, as you know, you had to go into the phone book, and I called the listed num- ber. It was his parents and they gave me his number. He called the next day and I rode out there and we hit the ground running. Thirty- three years later - he was a great teacher, his writing and his personality, there's really no difference, a lot of times if he would tell you the story, the story would be the same as he wrote. At 17 I thought I was Ernest Heming- way. He turned me onto all kinds of stuff, he would say this is a good story and this is why or this story isn’t so good and this is why. You have to know the rules before you can break them. He’s so good, probably the only things that gets close is Sam Shepard’s book about Bob Dylan. Standley was, he is known for the Stones book, but he also wrote the first seri- ous article of Elvis. He knew Elvis, he knew BB King, he knew Fred Louis, Jerry Wexler, he knew Jim Dickenson, Duane Allman. . . he knew all of those cats
before.That is how he got the Stones into Muscle Shoals, because he was so well connected through Memphis that they really looked to him as to where do we go to record. He's in Memphis, I talked with him
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