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Chuck, “The band was “I like a three What the hell is 21 Century Folk Music? “Lord “Keep those skinny
Got this CD in the mail, along with the accompanying rockin’ at the Last chord song I can buns warm in that
note. Give it a listen and if you think it’s any good, maybe Call Inn” sing along” The folks who wrote John Henry and Froggy Went a Courtin’ and Scarborough Fair oh
we’ll do an interview. Guy seems like a nut job but you never Lord those blind on the
can tell. – Matt Mizell, Editor, C’est La Vie Magazine weren’t trying to create “folk music.” They were telling stories Chicken bay”
about their lives and the world in which they lived,
I began preparing to record Climate Change in 1961 when I sang in the first ever using language that ordinary people could understand, Fighting
“battle round” with my buddy Chris on the bus ride home from St. Mary’s Elementary. Dueled with the instruments and music traditions available to them at the time. Girls”
with Goodbye Cruel World. He still insists he won, but you don’t hear HIM on an album, now do
you? A few years later I was thrown out of Read’s Drugstore for singing along to Ring of Fire on
the jukebox. When I belted it for the 8th time, a guy down from me at the lunch counter yelled
“son, I know love is a burning thing, but so’s my indigestion!” I called him a tool. About this time,
I started picking notes on Nan’s old mandolin. Didn’t know what the notes were – still don’t, who
needs to know notes to write a song? – but it WAS a mystical experience, listening to the “Ain’t there a
emotions in those riffs. In 1967 my band tore it up at Riva Teen Club with me singing Mannish MAN
Boy. But I quit. I was interested in girls, and lead singers never get girls, right? I had a long term
plan, needed daughters to sing on Climate Change, so I went looking for a wife with good vocal in the house?” I got legs I love to kick’em
DNA. Between ‘68 and ‘77, I auditioned quite a few candidates. Karen won hands down. My
mother was a Sinatra fan, but loved King of the Road. Called it Rat Pack Country. When she said I
smelled like smoke, I sang “I ain’t got no cigarettes.” She broke a paddle on my backside. Never
had much use for a classroom. Got my geography from Promised Land, history from The Night
They Drove Old Dixie Down, civics from Okie From Muskogee and sex-ed from Rag Mama Rag. I
played lacrosse in high school because I knew it would lead me to a curvalicious batchelorette
party at a karaoke bar in Cedar Grove England in 2005. That really got this thing rolling. I used to Their songs were about queens and princes,
sing a sweet lullaby to the girls, Long Black Veil. The social worker said that was inappropriate. I magic cambric shirts, and man against machine.
switched to Gimme Three Steps. Jennie fought like hell but I made her go to Elon to learn to sing Ours are about squabbling teenage girls, “My girl
harmony with those kids in Twisted Measure. Contrary Amy insisted on college. I told her now she
“Wadda you need that for? Don’t you remember that 7th grade talent show? Parents yakking, gluten free linguini, university safe spaces, blind dates and family vacations. loves the
only listening to their own kid? I won 78 bucks betting the other dads the joint would go stone “Don’t And we’ve got a few more traditions to draw on:
quiet when you let loose with Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” In 1981 I heard this 9 year old you be Nashville, Bourbon St., Broadway, Big Pink, Chicago, Laurel Canyon, finer
humming Life in the Fast Lane in a 7-11. Seemed to have some talent. Bryan still doesn’t know I scared of Motown, Memphis, and the Mississippi Delta. things”
told his mother to buy him that first guitar for his birthday. There’s plenty more, but just listen to
the songs. They should tell you all you need to know. a little
exertion” “Smooth on, man I It’s a big country with a great music history.
Don Harrison was in my groove” Why not use it all? “Suave as Gable”

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