Chords for Rodney Crowell - Interview (Bing Lounge)

_ _ _ There we go.
Rodney Crowell in the Bing Lounge.
_ _ Thank you sir.
Thank you for coming in.
_ How's it going?
It's going good.
Good.
Tar Paper Sky is the new album
Rodney has out right now.
It's very good.
I would encourage you to go out and buy several
copies and pass them [F] around to your best friends.
Good idea.
Tonight at Music Millennium at 7 o'clock.
Not a true gig in town.
I wanted to start off by saying_
Hang on, that qualifies as a gig.
Yeah, yeah.
_ _ Definitely. _
I want to thank you.
_ When I first started in radio I got a job at a country station
here in town.
I didn't know anything about country music.
My grandpa used to play it a little bit in his station wagon when I was riding around with him.
Where was this?
Where were you riding?
Did you grow up here?
Yeah, it was right here.
It was in Gresham, which is just outside of Portland.
_ It was back in the days when they said, there's the albums, put your show together.
_ _ _ The glory days.
The glory days of radio.
_ But I found your first two albums
amongst all the other stuff that I knew nothing about.
Yeah, way down at the bottom of the stack.
No, they were there.
They _ _ were current at the time.
That's how long ago this has been.
_ _ _ It was kind of a soft place for me to land, trying to figure out what I was doing. _
_ _ The program director had to call me up
and tell me not to play so many Neil Young songs.
I found a Neil Young and a Waylon and all that stuff.
I was doing that real hard.
I was trying to mix that in with the stuff that the other country fans_
Well, now Neil Young's country.
Or _ _ Americana.
Depending on what album he's putting out.
_ So you grew up in Crosby, Texas.
What's Crosby like?
_ _ _ My growing up years were in East Houston. _
I ran away from home to join a band when I was 15.
I wound up in a little town called Crosby, which is about
_ 40 miles _ from where my parents lived.
_ They kind of stood in the driveway and waved goodbye.
_ _ _ They didn't seem to be too upset.
I guess they thought joining _ a band was better than running off to join the circus.
But kind of the same thing.
I was going to say.
A case could be made for either one at that point.
_ _ So you grew up in a musical family?
_ _ Yeah, I did.
My father played and sang.
He had a pretty encyclopedic _ knowledge of songs.
_ _ I was raised on country music for sure.
When I was a kid, _ we had Hank Williams 78s.
Basically my parents just left them on the floor with me and a little record player.
It was the first thing I learned to operate.
I played Hank Williams records non-stop.
That's where I was. _ _
_ _ _ _ I come _ _ from uneducated _ sharecrop
farm stock.
Western Kentucky, Western Tennessee. _
Music was really the only _ entertainment
available.
_ Nine _ _ times out of ten, music
that you made yourself.
Homemade music.
_ Those that didn't play, my family and my favorite aunt,
_ _ she had a little bigger farmhouse than everybody else.
Those _ _ of us who could play, played.
_ Those who couldn't dance.
I come from _ _ _ good Scots-Irish stock where _
you drink whiskey and dance and play music and then Sunday morning
go repent and _ _ _ _ work
_ [G] four days and find a good excuse to take off Friday to get warmed up
for Friday and Saturday night and then go back to church Sunday morning.
It's a pretty good cycle.
I'm not quite Catholic.
_ _ _ _ Five Hail Marys or whatever, but got off pretty light. _ _
_ _ _ Absolutely.
You've had the pleasure of meeting some, obviously your heroes over the years.
Waylon and Johnny Cash and Jerry Reed.
Can you share one story with us, just one, about [N] any of those
guys?
It was such an interesting time that you were available to be around.
_ I'll tell you, _ _ _ Johnny Cash
was my father-in-law for 13 years and then
we became really good friends. After that?
_ I don't know what that _ says.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Just getting started, just made my first album _
and I was a single father.
The first marriage I had
that took place, _ _ it ended
very quickly and there was a child involved and I got the kid.
I got _ custody of the kid. _
_ I got the sympathy vote a lot
when I was just coming up, just getting started.
I was in Lake Tahoe.
I had a gig in one of the side rooms there and Johnny Cash was in the big room
and I was dating his daughter, just starting. _
Everybody liked me.
This guy, this songwriter guy, he's got a 16-month-old
baby.
_ I milked it pretty good. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Waylon was there.
He was _ in, hanging out with
John in June. _ _
He got wind that I had this little girl. _
_ He really fell in love with her. _ _
At the end of that weekend, Waylon says,
What are you doing tomorrow?
I said, I'm going back to LA where I live.
He says, How are you getting there?
_ I said, I'm flying.
Me and my little girl were flying back.
_ He said, I'll give you a ride. _
_ I said, _ _ _ _ no man.
I'm going to fly home.
I don't want to ride _ 12 hours with this little girl.
He says, I have a Learjet. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I said, I'm going home with you, brother.
_ _ _ Here's Waylon.
_ Just me and him and my little girl Hannah. _
_ Waylon's a Lear. _ _ _
Waylon always had a cigarette in his mouth and the ashes were always starting to do that curl
before they fall.
He's biting down on it.
No telling what _ _ Waylon had been doing. _ _ _
He's sitting there bouncing my little girl on his knee
with that cigarette ash hanging out.
Smoke _ billowing
all around him.
He's singing little songs to this
16 month old child.
It will always be my most
_ fond memory of Waylon.
I loved Waylon.
He was a tough
old boot.
He was such a sweetheart way down deep.
Every time _ I would see Waylon, the first thing he would
say was, how's Hannah?
Always. _ _
That's a good story. _ _ _ _
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Thank you so much. _ _