a source of pride. |
I don't know of any other band that has two vocalists that can sing together without competition, |
I think the Knitters were a little more straight-up country than some of those bands, but we were all bringing roots-type sounds to a new audience. |
I think we were among the first positive examples of country music for the punk rock audience, |
I think whenever you are trying to establish something new, you have to draw a line and put everything that came before that behind you, |
I'm just happy to be part of a 'sophomore effort,' |
It was a sense of mystery. X was scary in a different way [than other punk bands], |
No. It was like father and son ... He is my father. |
Prior to that, it was probably more often thought of as that old fuddy-duddy music, that corny old stuff. What we do is corny, too, but it's fun to do. And just because something is corny doesn't mean it doesn't have meaning or significance. |
Restraint can be tough. I've made a point to learn how to make a slow song have as much impact as a fast song. That's a challenge I've given myself, because it's easy to just get out there and blast through a bunch of things and feel as though you're exciting the audience. If you can do that with a slow song, then you really have some variety and some range. |
That was probably their catering budget for three or four days. |
The interesting thing now is the Knitters have a context to exist in, |
The only way you could screw it up is to try to manicure it, ... If you pull it apart, it makes it bad. If you leave it together in its little mess, then it's good. |
To have someone like Ray -- like rock 'n' roll royalty -- embrace what we do, it was great for our confidence, ... In the studio, he knew what to try to do. He went for performance. He was smart enough to realize that the band had the arrangements all worked out. |
We did it in the most hillbilly way we could think of, and there we were, |