Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

I loved working with Bob Dylan.