The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.