“Beautiful. Just beautiful.” Bill smiled broadly and said what I feel
summed up the entire session. “Wow. It sounds like Cowboy.” Back at the hotel, all of the Cowboy
band (except for Scott who had to drive back to the Shoals) gathered in one of the rooms, and we watched part of the movie The De- parted, with many comments about how good a job Jack Nicholson did with the role as mafia boss. Exceptional, if you ask me.
Pete back at the hotel. (Michael Buffalo Smith Photo) “I think both Scott and Tommy were
the leaders in this band,” says George with a smile.
I told him about the first time I ever
heard Cowboy, and that it was on the Duane Allman Anthology album doing “Please Be with Me,” which became one of my all time favorite songs. “It was really quite simple the way that
one came together,” says Clark. “They asked me to play stand up bass on it, and Duane All- man knocked it out in two takes. He was just great.”
We were soon joined by Tom Wynn,
and talked even further about all of the great music Cowboy has created over the years, as well as the new material. Back at the studio at noon, the guys got
down to work on “Comfort Zone,” adding some simply smoking lead work from Pete. In what seemed almost like a scene from a movie, everyone got real quiet, Johnny San- dlin raised a hand to the sky and said, “Let’s take it from the top.” Next came the adding of background
vocals to the song “Positive Flow.” Scott, Tommy, George, Bill and Pete gathered around a single microphone to work up the harmonies. After a few run throughs, we were all just blown away by the sheer magic of the vocals, prompting Sandlin to utter the words
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Monday morning we all gathered
downstairs for coffee and our final get to- gether. We sat and talked for about an hour before everyone had to leave for their own in- dividual drives back home. Home was seven hours and one time change away for me, but at least I didn’t have the 12-hour trek to Florida that faces Tom and George. This had been one for the books as far as I am con- cerned. A dream come true. Hanging out in the studio with one of my all-time favorite bands and getting to know them, and find that they are all just great guys. As much fun as the whole session has
been, this was only part one. Talton and Boyer and Sandlin will be recording a whole other “side” for the album in December, with former Cowboy players Bill Stewart, Randall Bramblett and other outstanding players like Chuck Leavell and David Hood. We will be right back in the middle of the action, giving you a play by play, as one of the South’s finest bands creates a brand new master work.
In loving memory of Johnny Sandlin, Scott Boyer, George Clark, Chip Miller and Arch Pearson.
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