Chords for Hal Ketchum Interview (1995)(Music City Tonight 720p)

_ _ _ _ _ Robert, _ here.
Hi, pal.
Good to see you again.
How are things going for you?
Good.
A stunning entrance.
Come on in here.
Have a seat.
Hi.
Yeah, that's a good group.
Just don't get close to the people in the middle over there.
Oh.
Yeah.
We'll tell you about that later, okay?
We'll explain it later.
Okay.
I like that look.
Now, the first thing I noticed when you walked in.
This look, Charlie?
No, no, no.
I hadn't seen you in a while.
The beard.
You know, it's looking good.
That's an attempted Gauthier Van Dyke type object.
It's my first, really.
I've never done this before.
And what got you in the mood to try something new like that?
I think I got off the road and getting ready for a show every night.
You get real appearance conscious.
And being home for the first week or so, I didn't shave at all.
And then I got kind of sculptural with it.
_ That's interesting.
I guess you have a lot of people commenting about it.
Whenever you change something about yourself.
I mean, I got kind of bored with myself, and I just cut my hair all off.
Yeah, it looks good.
Certainly, people observe when people see you on television.
Yeah, if they know who you are, they always are objective about your changes of appearance.
But this gives you a new attitude, you think?
Yeah.
I'm reading less and think I know more somehow.
He looks very smart.
I do this a lot.
Very intelligent.
Amusing.
Hey, well, I know you're smart because you're such a big fan of Delbert McClinton.
I mean, what a great talent.
I know he's a big buddy of yours.
You like Delbert.
I know.
What is it that impresses you about the man?
Well, when I lived in Texas, I lived behind an old dance hall called Green Hall.
And I used to hear Delbert, the music of this powerful band, and Delbert singing over the top of it.
Coming out of that place all the time.
And when I aspired to do this, one of the first shows I ever opened was for Delbert McClinton in Texas.
It was a very important thing to me.
So, yeah, I'm a big fan.
Yeah, well, actually, you know, you thought you heard him in the nightclub.
He was actually on a cruise ship about 600 miles off the coast over there.
Probably so.
It carries across the water.
The blues will carry across the water.
Yes, it does.
Well, do you enjoy this cruise scene as much as Delbert does?
I liked it very much.
I had a real nice time.
It's a lovely old vessel, and it's got observation decks all the way around it.
And you really get out there and watch the sun come up.
I got out there during a big, kind of a nice big storm we had one [F#] morning and rowed it.
And it was a lot of fun.
I enjoyed it very much.
[B] Okay, I did that once.
And for the next three hours, I'm talking overboard. [N] Really?
Did you get sick?
Not at all.
No, I did not. You didn't?
No.
Now, you're a big outdoorsman.
In fact, tomorrow on TNN, you're part of the big Buckmaster Jam, right?
Yeah, I played a show in Atlanta for the Buckmaster bow hunters, deer hunting folks.
I had a good time.
What kind of an outdoorsman are you?
Do you like the water?
Do you like the woods?
I like the woods very much.
I grew up [C#] in _ big woods.
And my father, particularly, and my brother _ were avid outdoorsmen and hunters and fishermen.
And I loved to fly fish.
I love to fish.
There's a feeling of serenity out there, isn't there?
Well, the bottom line is that up until 100 years ago, it was relatively easy to go walk with nature and feel like you.
A lot of us wake up now and we walk across the carpet, we put our shoes on, we walk down a concrete sidewalk, we get in our car, we drive out here, we do our thing.
We never even touch the earth.
We're not even on it, if you will.
Never thought about that.
_ So, philosophically, it's a lovely thing to go out and get in touch with yourself.
Get in touch with the earth, too.
Mother earth.
What does that do for your songwriting?
Do you think that helps your songwriting?
I think it's part, again, it's been part of my life so long, you know, that it's just kind of part of who I am.
As far as songwriting, you have a song that's in a movie coming up, right?
Oh, something to talk about.
It's already out.
Yeah, it's a film called Something to Talk About.
Julie Roberts and Robert Duvall.
Dennis Quaid.
Dennis Quaid, Love in the Thrill.
It's a good [Gm] movie.
It's a good, fun piece of cinema.
Thank goodness there's a song in right the middle of it.
Did they select the song?
Had you already done it or did you do it for the movie?
They sent me a script and [A] it's kind of, I've done it, I did it for the Maverick soundtrack, for the Maverick film.
And they sent me a script, a wonderfully written script to this film, Something to Talk About.
_ And I wrote about the character, kind of about Julie Roberts' character and her dilemma in the film, specifically.
So it was a challenge and it worked out.
Will this lead to other movies?
Well, I hope so, yeah.
I mean, I do get scripts and attempt this on a fairly regular basis.
It's wonderful when it works out.
Maybe you ought to try acting, too.
[D] Yeah.
No.
There's enough of them, I think.
_ There's a lot of good ones.
And I don't know.
I think if you know how to write songs and sing, that's probably a pretty good gift.
I'd kind of stay with that.
Stick with it.
Not to be tacky, but when you think of movies, you think of big-time money.
Do you make a lot of money when you write a song for a movie like Something to Talk About?
Well, you know, I don't need all the money, so I don't really think about things in that context at all.
You really don't?
No, I don't.
I think one of the worst things in the world to do is to brag on your financial good fortune.
Some of you will come and remove it from you.
I'm more inclined to just be thankful for the work and perpetuate the movie.
Well, whatever happens.
And the mailbox money, I figure I can hobble down to the mailbox in 15 years, and I'll be very thankful for that money.
Yeah, you just want to make enough money to buy popcorn and drinks when you go see the movie. Yeah.
No, I want to make enough so I can walk off that farm and say,
I'm going to work, dear, and walk down the path to the mailbox and get that BMI check.
Yeah, and bring it and go back home.
Buy a brush hog once in a while.
Well, you know, it's amazing.
[A#m] Hank Williams Jr.
told me that once, [N] that if he had wanted to not be a creative person,
he could have walked to the mailbox, collected his daddy's check for his whole life.
And he said he would rather be creative.
I thought that was interesting.
Your creativity really shines on this.
Every little word.
Name of the album.
From Al Ketchum, who returns later.
He'll be doing some music with Elvis.
Be right back. _
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