Innerview PLAYIN’ IN THE BAND
by Elaine George and Scott Greene
If you are like me, when watching musi-
cians play I often wonder who they are, really. Meaning what makes them tick, where did they grow up, what kind of music influenced them, things like that. And it’s not just the front man or the star guitar player but I want to know what makes the other players in the band tick. While watching my favorite band Blackberry Smoke play my attention was drawn to the man sitting in on percussion. I loved the space he filled in the songs that I have come to love, and how much he added to the texture of the music. So, when given a chance to find out his story I was all in. During this time of social distancing and
with the band not able to play we decided to do this interview by email. I sent Preston some ques- tions and he recorded his answers and my dear friend and Co - interviewer Elaine George took on the task of transforming my questions and Pre- stons’s answers into the following interview /question and answer session. I hope you enjoy learning more about Preston and his life as much as I did.
Tell us a little about your life growing up. Your family, places you lived and early in- fluences? I was born in 1965 in Atlanta. I’m the youngest of three kids. I have two older sisters, they are 7 and 9 years older than me, so I came along a bit after them. I’ve lived in Smyrna, Georgia all my life. We grew up in a nice little neighborhood, all those little neighborhoods in Smyrna were really cool back then. My father had a house built in a new neighborhood and I grew up there with a
An Interview with PRESTON HOLCOMB
EEvan Bartleson Photo
bunch of other really good families as neighbors. I pretty much stayed there until I graduated high school. I went to public school for elementary school. Then my parents decided to move me to private school. The first one was a small private school in Smyrna for 3 years, and then starting in my 8th grade year I went to a larger private school in Buckhead. I went there from 8th grade through 11th grade. My senior year I went back to public school at Campbell High School in Smyrna and that’s where I graduated. Went to some art school after that for a couple years. That’s pretty much my early life in a nutshell.
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