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DSR: [Laughs] Yeah, I've had some shows like here in Pensacola, as my old music

hall opened up for Chris Thomas King, and when you’re just playing your own music,
people don't know your music. They don't know you and just suddenly find yourself
connected and you're like,

how did this happen?

I've played clubs like, and I
remember thinking, you

know, just me on stage, this
big stage by myself, I say, how
did I get here? How did this

happen? But it's moments
like that that keep you going.
You know, that's the fun

about it.

BiTS: What's your stage rig,

Scott? Do you have a couple
Ground Zero Blues Club
of mics or foot pedals or
Biloxi, Mississippi
what? How does it work?

DSR: When I started out, I
was micing obviously my vocals and I was playing a resonator guitar with Spearman
Brewers, and I was micing it and that just became a feedback hassle just dealing
with that. So I eventually got some pedals and a DI box, and I started to switch to

that. One thing that happened when I started doing the micing is because I had to
watch it because I move around. I find myself moving around. So I had to make sure

I sat down when I did the microphone, and so now that's kind of stuck. So I sit down
all the time when I play. But 30 years, especially with the resonator, you've got to
have a good EQ pedal and it took me about a month and a half to really get that sound
right where I could play it live. I've got a couple of pedals and I've got a DI box. I just

run through the pedal board now. It keeps my sound consistent anywhere I go.

BiTS: It's funny you say that about moving around. I remember reading not so long
ago that Reverend Gary Davis, who was blind, of course, used to turn around on

stage, and every now and again, somebody would have to go and point him to the
front again [chuckling].

DSR: Oh, yeah, it's funny. You play some places, especially floors that are stone or
something like that and they're a little slick. I'll start playing and I'll get done with
the song and I'll find out my chair turned like 45 degrees. I'm like, what the hell,

man [laughing]. You can't help it. When you get into it, sometimes your feet start
moving, you start wiggling around because you're trying to squeeze every good
emotion out of you, and that happens.

BiTS: What have you got coming up in the future? Anything big?