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other Reverend, Reverend J.M. Gates, back in the 20s. He would do a little preaching
and then the choir would sing afterwards.

I was streaming that, and it just hit me, hey, I'm just going to release this album now,
and that's what happened. It took me maybe from writing to recording, the mixing,
the copyrighting and releasing it, it was probably a three-month period. It was real

quick. Probably the best recording experience I've ever had.

BiTS: When you went into the studio, Scott, was the thing all in your mind or was it
formulated ready to go, or did you make up stuff in the studio?

DSR: Oh no, it was fully written and
arranged, ready to go. At the time,
every year I've been going for the past

four or five years up to Memphis for
the International Blues Challenge, and
I was up there, and I had a lot of time

in the hotel in Memphis during the
morning and so I worked on all the

arrangements then. So when I got back
home and got in my studio, I just
knocked it out. So I mean, I went in
fully prepared this time. When you're

playing, there's still some improv in
there. I can't help it when I'm playing.

I'll start going off on a tangent and
some of that album has that in it too.

BiTS: The studio is declared on the CD cover as Slow Q Studio in Pensacola.

DSR: Slow Q, that is my studio.

BiTS: That is your studio, is it? Okay.

DSR: Yeah, that is my studio.

BiTS: Tell me, the sound is absolutely fantastic because it has that kind of edge to it,

which is modern sound audio stuff, but also, it sounds like it could have been recorded
100 years ago. How do you do that?

DSR: I'm going to tell you, it's really amazing that you and a couple of other people

have picked up on that because that's exactly what I was going for. I'd like to tell you
there was a magic spice through all things that came out with that. I think part of this

was because I really enjoyed this recording more than any of them in the past I've
done. I think that may come through in the recording. That and it’s so stripped down.
I think that really calls back to the old pre-war era with that and gives it that vintage

vibe, but you're also dealing with modern technology now. So it's kind of the best of
both worlds at this point.