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TE: It's one of America's oldest places, which means not particularly old, but I'm playing on
Easter Sunday, so I'll have to remember to play that song.

BiTS: Yes, absolutely. It's a fabulous tune. My interest in it particularly is because I am a bit of
a gospel nut and although I'm not a religious person, I'm very conscious of the fact that there
are very few Easter gospel songs.

TE: Yeah.

BiTS: ‘Who Rolled The Stone Away?” is about the only one that everybody knows.
TE: Oh, yeah, well, that's a big one too. Yeah, you're right about that. But, you know, Easter is a

time of celebration of spring and rebirth and things.

BiTS: Yes, sure.
Sophie, with Dave
Leo Kottke TE: The winter being over and hopefully happier summer
times coming and holidays and vacations and stuff. So
maybe that being the final song on the album could be seen
as maybe a harbinger of more music like this to come.

BiTS: Oh, okay. Speaking of more music like this yet to
come, you're touring with this album most of this year I
would guess. Have you got any plans to go back into the
studio to do anything else?

TE: Well, I always record when I'm off the road. It takes a
couple of days to sort of decompress and then I get back
into my home studio and hit record and start writing music.
I write all types of music. I've written some very rocking
music that almost sounds like something from the 1970s or something like the Rolling Stones
or Allman Brothers.

I write pretty hard rock and stuff, and I still continue to record and write in the electric format,
but as far as performing, this is what I'm going to do now is play music, and I tell stories during
the show, too. I talk about the blues musicians that I've been able to come in contact with and
see in concert or maybe play with.

BiTS: Tell me something about the way that you would introduce the song that we started off
talking about, the ‘Sailor’ song, Leo Kottke.

TE: Oh, ‘The Sailor’s Grave In The Prairie’. I usually would tell the story about how when that
album came out in the early 70s, and me and my friends listened to it, it sounded like four men
playing, four people playing together and it was just one man playing all the parts.

BiTS: Ain’t that the truth. Yes, I couldn't agree any more.

TE: And so trying to figure out how he did it with all the guitar tunings and the finger picking
and maybe the slide. And then I've actually never seen Leo Kottke in concert. I've only heard his
albums and watched the videos. Then about 40 – wow, 40 years ago, I was playing in Atlanta at
a club called The Harvest Moon, when somebody came up on stage and said Leo Kottke’s in the
audience, and I went, wow, Leo Kottke! And he was there, and I played that song for him, and
he said he enjoyed it.

BiTS: That's wonderful.