had heard two more songs on the tape that she liked and wanted to cut the next day, but that she wanted to fly to Paris to sing “Foreign Affair,” and they ended up naming the album that. I felt that would be a good one for her to start with. We flew to London and cut the tracks. She wanted to sing it in Paris. One take in the studio and it was over with. I think she did every one of those songs in one take. She did four of my songs and it made me float around, man. To me, Tina was right up there with Elvis and Lightnin.’


She is one of the best for sure. Just dyna- mite. I saw on your website a picture of you and some of the guys from the Jack- son Highway studio in Muscle Shoals so I guess you recorded there some? Yeah, two albums there. The Closer to the Truth album was recorded there.


Did you work with some of the Muscle Shoals musicians down there? It was always Roger Hawkins on drums and


David Hood on bass and Steve Nathan on B-3. Once that was all cranked up you were rolling.


Did you tour with Clapton and Joe Cocker at the same time or was that individual tours? Separate. With Clapton I only did a few things with him. It wasn’t like my Cocker tour. Joe and I stayed out about 2 months. Clapton was as cool as he could be. He always had this portable pool table in his dressing room and everytime I would go in we would shoot some pool or snooker or whatever it was that he had going. He was always very cool to me. He’s holding one of my songs that he was thinking about recording. It was an old song called, “Taking the Midnight Train.” It was off an earlier album. Clapton and Joe and Creedence all had a good time on tour.


You were out with the original band with Fogerty? Oh yeah, they had a lot of hits out and we had


this so there was a lot going on. It was about 1973 or 1974, right in there, and they had lots of hits out and a couple of things going so we had some huge crowds. Let’s play a form of word association. I


want to name a few folks and get your brief thoughts on each of them. Starting with Bonnie Bramlett. She has a soulful voice. We did a short movie


together in Santa Fe, New Mexico called Catch My Soul. That was when she was still with De- laney. I went down there to do the soundtrack and ended up playing a part in it. I just played myself and I was a preacher that played guitar. We stayed down there for about three months. The movie is pretty findable. They later renamed it The Black Devil. It has Ritchie Havens in it and he plays Othello. It is a bunch of hippies living out in a desert commune and that type of thing.


Bobby Whitlock. He is a very soulful man. We did a benefit in


Mississippi about four years ago and I was able to spend some time with him and he was trying to get things together and move along. I heard now that he has done that.


Waylon. He and I are dear friends and lived together in


Memphis for awhile. Him and Jessi came through there during Waylon’s rocking days. He was stay- ing up 1-2 days at a time. He came pulling in there in an old Cadillac and he and Jessi were going to stay for awhile. He brought a Strato- caster in a tweed case to me as a gift. He is just so unbelievable. A friend of his had found it and it was in good condition. So I put it in a safe here at the studio and would take it out every now and then for a song. The other day out in Phoenix they had a Waylon Day and Shooter (his son) is play- ing music now and I told him that I had some- thing I wanted to give him, but he had to come home to get it. I told him that ‘58 Sunburst that his Daddy had given me was for him. He is play- ing music and getting ready to play Waylon in that movie about Johnny Cash. He is a great mu- sician who is fixing to have a great guitar. It is pretty amazing that it would come around like that again.


J.J. Cale. He is the man. I just listened to him last night. I


have been digging him for years and we have done a couple of shows together. In fact he came to Nashville the year before last and he called me


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