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SE: We were doing stuff off of Cold Hard Cash, and we did about a 50-minute set. Back stage, BB
was getting around and the band really loved it and got to hang with the guys back there. So, BB
goes out and gave me a real nice stroke onstage; beautiful things he’s saying. Then about 3 songs

into his first set, he started “Rock Me Baby” and he called me out onstage and the horn player’s got
a seat for me right next to him.

He talks to me and tells me he loves my show; “I love your tunes. It’s been a long time since I’ve
seen you.” He remembered me in Las Vegas when we met in in ’88 or whenever. So, his memory is

impeccable — it blew me away. He called me out again to take a bow and all that toward the end of
his show. It was really cool. It was a great experience. He wanted me to play but it wasn’t set up for
that; it was so off the fly that there wasn’t
another rig out there.

Buddy Guy
Anyway, that was the biggest thrill of my life
though to this day because, my late father was

there, my late wife was there, so yeah, it was a
cool thing!

BK: And since he’s passed it probably means
even more now.

SE: Oh yeah; yeah! And the cool thing about
that was that there was a guy that had a digital
recorder and he got the whole show. Three or
four days after that show, I put a thing on the
Internet, “If anybody has a recording of that

show, I would be indebted for life.”

Then about three months later, I got a Facebook message from a guy in LA that was there at that
show and recorded the whole thing. He made a CD for me and sent it to me and years later he came
to see us. To have the audio of your favourite moment of your musical life and hear BB and relive
it… If I get down, I just put that on, and it picks me right back up.

BK: In the mid- ’90s you began recording solo albums, including Chains of Love on Quicksilver
Records in 1993 and Live At Joey’s on Red Hot Records came in 1995. How do those experiences
compare to recording your new album, Skyline Drive?

SE: That’s a great question! I was 35 when I went solo, because I was a sideman up until then. I

decided I wanted to be a full-time solo guy, and I was already working on songs two or three years
before I was out doing gigs in LA trying get my band oiled up, trying to get my sound. Chains of
Love kind of started that, and I was still developing my live show when I made that record. Then I
met my wife, who’s deceased; I met her on that Chains of Love tour when I played Tulsa.

Anyway, Chains of Love was my platform, my jump-start as a solo artist. Really, it was more R & B

pop in there and then I got more into the straight-ahead blues and that morphed into my kind of