both do more of the classic country, or traditional country sound. Do you think we're going to see more of that style coming around? Well I certainly hope so. I miss it. I don't nec- essarily hate everything that I hear on the radio, but the problem is I am not hearing any great country, and I've got to have it. There’s nothing like hearing a good song on the radio, and I'll tell you what- if you don't know what a good song is, then I don't think you ought to be in radio. I've banged my head on that door enough. I'm just glad to have something back that's working for 'em.
The new album, Amigo, has a great Western Swing meets Mexicalli sound that sometimes reminds me of Marty Robbins or Willie Nelson. Was it your intention to give it a Western Swing theme? I've always like that style. We cut "Texas Echo" in Nashville back in about '88, and sometimes you just don't quite capture it. So I was glad to take another shot at it. You know, on a major label you can't do anything like that, kind of Texas Swing or obscure cowboy songs. The whole record has to be aimed at what they perceive as main steam. I'm hoping that that is going to broaden. Because what they put into a tiny little hole and call it main- stream, for the most part, country music lis- teners are falling off. It's kind of drifting, and I think it may be because it is too narrow. I want to expand that a little bit. And this is what I can do best. Shania Twain can go off and do what she does best. I guess what makes this record unique is that it is me, it's not me trying to sound like
Shania.You get what I'm saying. I'm not chasing something. I love Bob Wills music. Back in the seventies that's what I was listening to, was Ray Price and Bob Wills. Then I've been doing my own music for twenty years, my own style, so I'm kind of in a unique spot as far as most people that are out there, that are trying to get on the
radio or be on the radio. I mean, I'm not in- fluenced by Elton John, you know what I mean?
It'd been a while since I'd had a record,
and I was still playing Texas and Oklahoma a lot, and I'd go over to Switzerland and stuff. But it was time for me to have a record that I could sell off of the bandstand when I went to Texas. And I knew that Texas was kind of sep- arating themselves from mainstream country music and they had started their own chart called the Texas music chart. You can go to Texas and really work a record and sell gold. If it works nationally, well that's great too.
I think "Private Malone" will be num- ber one. Well, look out!
What's next for David Ball? Well, I've discovered this really great way of making records, so I am really anxious to get in there and start another record. of course, I want to hit the road. I want to go out and play them dance halls!
Get that immediate gratification from the audience! You know it! Concerts are fine too, but every now and then I've just got to get into those dance halls. You know, music sounds real good in those places. •
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