Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.