Jay Burgess

I think a lot of people don’t realize that to be able to travel for a long period of time in close quarters with the same people, every single day, and not knowing almost anybody in the next city you are going to gets really hard. It gets tough.

The music world changes on a regular basis. Back then to have someone like Jimmy Johnson, who was the guitar player/engineer/sometimes producer, was rare, you had all these people with individual jobs. That’s probably why I started trying to learn the recording side of it. Now you have to put on a ton of hats every day if you are going to do music the way you want to do music. Unless you get really lucky.

Dick Cooper put it to me best, the first-string band in any other city is probably not as good as our third string. Here, I think musicians think different. They are not out to be super fancy, not out to be the spotlighted musician on stage. They are there to play this cool part when it needs to be there. Just like Memphis has different players and Nashville has pickers for days, here, it’s just different, the style of play is different.