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BiTS: Frank Bey came to my notice literally about two months before he passed away. I
couldn’t believe that I’d discovered this man who was such a fabulous artist, and then all of a
sudden, he passed away. Dreadful.

KM: It was so sad and Sallie Bengston, the President of Blue Heart Records, our label, and she

also has NOLA Heart Records, she really brought him to the forefront again and that was just
wonderful that he had so much success in the later part of his career.

BiTS: Tell me about recordings of your own. It was a long time between “Premonition of Love”
and “Fully Charged”. Was that because of COVID?

KM: Yes, it was. We released
“Premonition of Love” in 2018
and then we had started “Fully
Charged” in 2019 and there were
a lot of challenges to getting that
recorded. Yes, we were really
nervous, especially when the
Delta variant was out, very
scared about that. Just hearing all
the terrible stories about people
with symptoms that continue
that we were really careful, but
we figured out at Jeff Botta’s
Single Pitch Studios, we would be
in separate rooms, and we could
communicate that way.

BiTS: Where did you record the
new album “Fully Charged”?
KM: We recorded it at Single Pitch Studios in South Austin. Jeff Botta’s studio and we actually

recorded our last three albums - “Let’s Do This Thing”, “Premonition of Love” and “Fully
Charged” at Single Pitch. It’s a fantastic studio and Jeff just could not be better to work with.

BiTS: Let’s talk about some of the tracks that are actually on the album. Quite a lot of them I
think you wrote yourself, but there are some songs that I’ve not come across before. Tell me,
for example, about ‘Henny Penny Blues’. Is that one of yours? Where did it come from?

KM: That is one of mine and it came from I had a dear friend that was my early bass player for
many years from Dallas named Dee Harrell, and she passed away a couple of years ago,
unfortunately, but when we were young kids just starting out in music for about two years she
was the only committed member of my band. We had a revolving task of drummers and guitar
players, but Dee was always there, holding down that bass and helping me. She called me
Henny Penny, who will help her make this bread? When we got good gigs, everybody wanted a
piece of it, but who’s going to help her bake some bread and so when Dee passed away, I got to
thinking about how she used to call me that and that’s what led me to write the ‘Henny Penny
Blues’.

BiTS: That’s terrific and now the other one that intrigues me is ‘The House that Freddie Built’,
particularly because I guess you must have seen Freddie King.

BJ: We both saw Freddie King at the Armadillo World Headquarters. It inspired me to play
guitar and Kathy and I were talking about that. Freddie King termed the Armadillo the house