In the past couple of years I have been turned onto Eddie Hinton. Can you tell me something about him as an artist? Eddie was not living in the world that we live in, men- tally speaking. He saw things from a differ- ent perspec- tive. He was as he was and there was not much he could do about it. He was a wonder- ful talent, and one of the blackest white singers I ever heard. There is no question that most people


better than he got.


Cowboy and Johnny Sandlin during the recording of the reunion album ten years ago. Scott holding Rusty. (Photo © by Michael Buffalo Smith)


Tell us about the new Cowboy album. Basically Carl (Weaver) came to me and I have been doing Capricorn Rhythm Sec- tion thing for the past few years, well, during that


hearing him think he is black. He did so much for so many guitar players by sort of pioneer- ing the parallel fourth. He taught Glen Frey how to do that and then The Eagles had a hit on the song called “I Found Somebody To Love.” You can go back and listen to that song and see if it doesn’t sound like Eddie Hinton playing guitar. That is because Eddie had showed him the parallel fourth. I am not sure if there is anything I can tell you that others have not already revealed. I do remember right before he did the Very Extremely Dan- gerous album he came to Macon and did some janitorial work in the studio. He would come in and clean the floors, empty trash and ashtrays, and I remember seeing him in there when we were working on the third Cowboy album. I talked with him and asked him to come up and play on the album with us. He was saying to me that he wanted to just stay in the position of cleaning at that time. He just had a different way of looking at things than anyone on the planet. He deserved much


time he has mentioned me doing another Cowboy album. I was basically doing other things and not even in a position to respond to it. The fourth or fifth time he asked me I told him that if he could get it all together Tommy and I would be up for it. We have planned to get the original band members to- gether and record with some other folks that we are playing with currently. The music that Tommy and I are work-


ing on include some new tunes and then we have some songs that Tommy had written in the past we may use. Then there are some other songs I have written that I may be able to choose from, and another song from Bill Pillmore. We have a potential of about 30 songs to pick from. We will probably record in November and have it done by the end of November. I have not talked to Johnny about it because there is a lot to get coordinated, getting the songs together and people here. And Carl said something about wanting a spring release. I have done lots of albums and it never happens as planned, but I am not saying that won’t happen.That’s an awful lot to try to get done, but it’s doable. Rock and roll has a way of changing it’s own schedule. •


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