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bring me up there and then both of us would end up sitting and performing in the band later on that
night. So Wednesdays were great and the gigs that I'd done with Butch originally had been
Wednesdays and Butch had called that “Wednesday church” and that still holds true, that's still the
most churchy day of the week, I think.

BiTS: I was just going to say you've made, I've no idea how many, dozens of records. Any idea how
many it is?

AR: How many records have we made together? I don't know, maybe seven. I should have that
number.

BiTS: You've been
nominated for awards.

AR: Yes, lots of
nominations and we
won the W. C. Handy
Award in 2000 for our
album Moving to the

Country, which came
out in 99.

BiTS: Have you got
anything on the stocks
at the moment,
recordings-wise?

AR: Well everything has been suspended of course, but we're in suspended animation, but we had
been working on a few different projects before things shut down. We have probably three half-
finished albums in the studio of various different kinds. One of them was more of a solo, duo
project. We recorded a lot with various bands over the past few years, but we haven't put them

together into any finished product at this point. You have A Night in Woodstock, right?

BiTS: Yes.

AR: That was a finished product. Talking Guitar was our last prewar release. Since Talking Guitar
came out, we've been teaching at Berklee College of Music, both of us, teaching country blues in
their American Roots music department and that's been an incredible experience and along the way

we've gotten to meet all these great young musicians, some of whom don't know anything about
music history, but they're very willing to learn. Very talented and very nice people and some of
them we've absorbed in our band. We had a band called Mojo Rodéo and started playing a variety of
different styles of music, blues and rock and all these different styles of music and really enjoying
working with some of these really talented kids, or young adults, I should say.

BiTS: When you listen to contemporary music these days, which I assume you do, who do you
listen to?