Road Cage

American Music Radio Show of Belgium sat down with Buddy in this 2002 interview. Europeans love american music, especially folk, country, jazz, blues and rock. This is one the places to go online in Europe to get the American sound. (Well before the wall came down and the web is what it is today at least. lol) I know this for sure, Europeans love The New Riders and Buddy.

Interview done by Hans Hanegraaf during Blue Highways, Utrecht, Holland, March 23, 2002.

How did a little boy become a steel guitar player? And what did you do before entering The Great Speckled Bird?
“Before I played with The Great Speckled Bird I played for Ronnie Hawkins, a lot of studio work in Toronto, Canada for Anne Murray, George Hamilton IV, so a lot of work was coming my way.
But how I got started? Well, my mom and dad had this guy come through the doorstep one day when I was eleven, and he was offering guitar lessons. A salesman, and I tried to play that six string plectrum job, but it wasn’ working, because my hand was too small to fit around the neck. He saw that and said: “Let’s try this”, and he put this other guitar on my lap. It was a very primitive steel bar. He put some plastic finger picks on me and again he said: “Try this”. That I could do and made a note that didn’t sound too unpleasant. So I thought: “You’ll never know”

Did you teach yourself?
“No, I got lessons and I had a marvelous teacher. He was a great guy, Ken Near.”

When Ian Tyson hired you for The Great Speckled Bird, what did he have in mind? Had he been in California to see Gram Parsons? What made him wanna do something like country rock?
“He and Sylvia were coming to a fork in the road musically, folk singing wasn’t the same as it used to be in previous years and he was interested in writing different tunes.
The folk thing drove him crazy after a while and he heard Crosby, Stills and Nash; that album really knocked him out. That really flipped him. Thinking we might sing along with those guys, maybe.

But I can’t speak for him of course, but that might have been it. But he came up with the idea of assembling a bunch of rock singers and he thought I could be the one for him, because I was young and did what I was told. Probably not quite, but I worked with him and I owe Ian Tyson a lot. And Amos Garrett played guitar as he did on Maria Muldaur’s “Midnight on the Oasis”, famous part, that was him and I learned a great deal of guitar playing and being in a band, how to behave in general from him.”…

Read On for more of this in depth interview with Hans Hanegraaf of American Music radio Show - Brussles, Belgium. From the early days to his current projects like Stir Fried and of course,. gathering the New Riders posse. A great interview for sure and check out the playlist bleow.
Down at the Palomino*Flying Burrito Brothers*Sons of the golden west*1999*Grateful Dead Records
California jukebox*Flying Burrito Brothers* California jukebox*2001*Icehouse Sin City*Gram Parsons w/Flying Burrito Brothers* Live at the Avalon Ballroom*2007*Amoeba Amazing grace(used to be her favorite song)*Amazing Rhythm Aces*Concert classics vol.3*1999* Concert Classics Connie*Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen*Tales from the Ozone*1975/2003*WB/Wounded Bird Heard it in a love song*Marshall Tucker Band*Carolina dreams tour ‘77*2007*Shout Factory cd+dvd Rock ‘n’ roll(will keep you young)*McGuffey Lane* Greatest hits-live and more*1994*High Chief There goes another love song* Outlaws*Extended versions*2002*Sony Amie*Pure Prairie League*Pure Prairie League*1999*PPL Feather woman//93 Maidens*Rachael Sage*The blistering sun*2005*MPress ++Dead flowers*New Riders Of The Purple Sage* Home home on the road*1974/2004*BGO UK ++Sunshine showers*New Riders Of The Purple Sage* demo*1985*courtesy of John Dawson ++Ain’t no bread in the breadbox//Bouncing off the
wall(live)*Stir Fried*2006*courtesy of Buddy Cage ++The other side*Boris Garcia*courtesy of Buddy Cage

Lucky you*Believers*Lucky you*2008*CoraZong Holland ++Lonesome L.A.cowboy//I don’t know you*New Riders Of The Purple Sage*Wanted-live at Turkey Trot* 2007*FKW cd+dvd ++

West of the Mississippi//Deep Ellum blues*Stir Fried* Live Kearney N.J.*2008*courtesy of Vince Lorenzo
Vertigo//Invincible*Rachael Sage*Chameleon*2008*MPress ++Last of the Blue Diamond miners*Stir Fried*Live in Kearney N.J.*2008*courtesy of Vince Lorenzo My world*Rachael Sage*Chameleon*2008*MPress
++Any naked eye//Last lonely eagle//Fennario* New Riders Of The Purple Sage*Live-New Year’s Eve 2006*2007*ArSeeEm

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