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This record, um, I still look back on really fondly, on making this
We made it at Eric's, we had just made the East Nashville Skyline
Record, and um, I had toured it. And, let's see, there's a little
Backstage, but I had made three records for Oh Boy and that was as
Many as I owed them. And before that I'd been on Universal. And um
They called me back and said that they were gonna do a best-of album
And that I could pick the songs and sequence and everything if I
Would do one more album for them. And so I said, "Oh for sure I'll
Do that." And it was a guy named Bob Mercer, who I've talked about
A lot. Um, Al Bonetta and Bob Mercer always worked in my life, and
At this point in my life they brought a guy named Bert Stein who's
Been overseeing all this for years and years. This record was the
Very beginning of meeting him. They uh, they wanted, uh, Bob asked
Me to go meet Bert. And I, um, I remember, I'll get to a song here
In a second, but I remember after East Nashville Skyline I didn't
Have any more songs. I had done the one about Mike, Iron Mike was
The last old one that I felt cool about, and I was down to nothing
And um, so I agreed to make this album, and um, Mercer took me out
To dinner with some guys, there's always some guys, you know. So um
We were talking at dinner and Bob told, asked me to tell them what
The new record was gonna be about and how, and I didn't have any
Songs. Did I ever tell you this? Didn't have any fucking songs. And
So I said, "Well I don't have any songs yet." And he went, "Oh quit
Fucking around." And then one of the guys, he whispered to me, "You
Better not dry up on me now you little motherfucker." And uh, and
That fucking put the fear of God in me. I didn't make up anything
For months and then I made up a song called Karla and played it for
Peter Cooper and felt good about it. And then I was off and running
And then this one that we started the record with, in my mind there
Was this kind of conceptual thing, and the whole record was gonna end
With um, a ballad version, a piano ballad version of Fish and Whistle
, Which it did. I recorded it but it didn't make the record. And I