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BiTS: When you’re writing a song, do you just let things flow, or do you have an idea

in your head where you're going to go to with it? How does it work for you?

DSR: It kind of just comes to me, to be honest with you. It could be in each different

directions. Sometimes I could be just sitting there, goofing off on the guitar and I'll
hit a note and it'll just make me think of something and the next thing you know,
I'm okay, let's see where this goes, that goes, and then I'll come up with a line and
sometimes it just flows out within an hour. Sometimes you write a line, and you

don't know where it's going to go, so you put that song aside for a while. I never rush
a song, but if it's coming out, I let it flow till it drips dry. And sometimes, you know,

like if I'm watching a movie or TV, sometimes you'll hear a phrase that doesn't mean
much, but it just hits you weird and it gets you thinking and then I'll write that phrase
down and I'll look at it and a song will come out.

A good example of that is ‘Or The Devil Will Get You’. [Click to listen]

If you're travelling I-65 through Alabama between Montgomery and Birmingham,
a long time there was this old water mill, wooden mill and a sign that was next to it.

This old man owned that property and he put this sign up there on the Interstate
that said, “Go to church or the devil will get you”. It's famous, you know. Well, they
had a storm blow through, and it blew
the sign down and it was gone for years.

And the guy passed away and his son
inherited the property, and he remade

the sign and put it back up there and
when I was driving, I think I may have
had a show in Birmingham and driving

that I-65, I saw a sign was back up. I
said, hey, all right and I commented on
Facebook and a friend of mine goes, you

should write a song about that. I'm like,
yeah, right. I'm not going to write a song
about that. And then a week later, that

little seed sprouted, and I wrote that
song [laughing]. So there you go.

BiTS: That is an absolutely wonderful

Scott Riggs’ rig story and just shows how musicians like
yourself get inspired by the strangest
things sometimes to write music.

Absolutely fabulous. Tell me something
about performing. Have you performed
in places where you’ve suddenly said to

yourself, what on Earth am I doing here? This is absolutely wonderful.