Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.
Know yourself -- and know your audience.
Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.
Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.
When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.
I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.