Gregory & Scott.


at the time. It was a brilliant choice by Don to do that.


“Live the Life I Love,” Gregg brought that in. We’d been playing that live. You can't lose with Muddy Waters.


“Willin’ “was a Don Was choice. Gregg really loved Lowell George. Lowell George is one of my all-time musical heroes, and I think Gregg had a great personal relationship with Lowell, He was really excited about having a chance to record that song.


“Blind Bats and Swamp Rats, “Gregg brought that one wholeheartedly. That was his sugges- tion. 100% and was from that Johnny Jenkins record that Duane Allman produced [Ton-Ton Macoute!] That record was cut in the same stu- dio where we cut Southern Blood, F.A.M.E. in Muscle Shoals. “Out of Left Field “was also cut, I believe, in Muscle Shoals but it may not have been in F.A.M.E [it was recorded at Muscle Shoals


Sound Studio], by Percy Sledge. It’s an old Spooner Oldham song. Don brought that one to the table.


“Love Like Kerosene”. I had made a setlist for this acoustic set we were doing, Gregg looked at the setlist and he said “Can we play Kerosene?” And I said, Gregg, it's really way too up tempo. We might have had Quiñones on percussion, [Peter] Levin on keys. He said “well think about it.” I racked my brain and I came up with this way of doing it where it had the slow swing to it kind of like Smokestack Lightning by Howlin’ Wolf. When Gregg walked into the venue for the gig, I showed it to him. He immediately had this lightbulb moment, he goes, “That's it. That's the only way we're playing this song from now on!” (laughter). When we were going to do Southern Blood, he came to me and he said, Scott “we gotta redo Kerosene.” I said “are you serious? Do you want to do it again?” We got to do it with this tempo and feel. That tempo and feel that we came up with for that random gig was way better for his voice. I think it is the superior version of


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