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do it with the Barefoot Servants, with Leland Sklar and those guys and I couldn’t say no. It was
a real record deal. It was on Sony. I was like, okay, and it was funny a couple of days later, Sweet
Pea called me up and said, hey man, we need to do something together. And I said well, I’ve got
these songs and I’ve got these ideas and that was kind of how it started. But the name of The
Boneshakers didn’t come until later.

We were doing some stuff with Bonnie, [Raitt] and we were standing outside and she walked up
and she said, what are you guys doing out here, shaking your bones? Something like that and
that’s kind of, we went oh, Boneshakers. There were a couple of things that happened that led
us to that name. It was that and then it was a guy who used to work on my stuff. He used to work
on my guitar, he said, I can’t figure out what’s wrong, but I’m going to shake the box of bones
over your guitar. He used to always say that. Stuff like that and so that sort of led to the name of
The Boneshakers and that was how it started. Me and Sweet Pea met John Wooler at Point Blank.
I met him actually, he was at the studio
one day. Don introduced me and we
started talking and we sort of had
like-minded ideas about what I was
trying to do, which is sort of an
R&B/blues/rock sort of thing but not
like heavy blues rock. That was never
my thing. I never was selling myself as
like a guitar slinger. I wasn’t like
bigging up myself as Hendrix or
somebody or like Stevie Ray. I wasn’t
coming from that point of view. I was
coming from the point of view that I
had this great R&B singer and I’m the
purveyor of these R&B/blues songs.

That’s where I was at and I’m still that way. I’m still that way.