20 QUESTIONS CHRIS STUART

1. WHERE WERE YOU BORN, WHERE DID YOU GROW UP?


I was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, but my father was a preacher so we
moved a couple of times, but I grew up mostly in Jacksonville, Florida.
My parents are from east Texas, so I spent a lot of time there while I
was growing up too.

2. WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST MUSICAL MEMORY?

Hearing a bluegrass band in Nashville about 1965 at an outside concert.


3. WHAT WAS THE FIRST RECORD YOU OWNED?

The first one I ever bought was "Bridge Over Troubled Waters", Simon &
Garfunkel.

4. WHEN AND WHERE WAS YOUR FIRST PERFORMANCE?

I first played on stage in high school as a banjo player with a
guitar-player friend of mine. I think we did "Foggy Mt.
Breakdown"....:-)

5. WHO IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCE ON YOUR WORK?

Our banjo player, Janet Beazley, then Bill Monroe, then Paul Simon,
then Jesse Winchester



6. WHAT IS THE MOST MEMORABLE CONCERT YOU'VE ATTENDED?

I saw the Earl Scruggs Revue when I was in high school in 1976.
Recently I saw a Paul Brady concert that was incredible.


7. WHAT IS THE WORST JOB YOU'VE EVER HAD?

Shovelling asphalt on a road-crew in upstate New York.



8. WHAT IS THE BEST JOB YOU'VE EVER HAD?


The one I have now. Leading a band.


9. WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE ARTIST (ALL MEDIA)?

Jesse Winchester, then Jimmy Martin



10. WHAT IS YOUR ALL-TIME FAVOURITE BOOK

The Intuitionist by Colin Whitehead (1999)



11. WHICH IS YOUR FAVOURITE INSTRUMENT?

Irish flute.

12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SONG YOU'VE WRITTEN?

Rider On This Train (unrecorded)

13. WHAT IS THE FAVOURITE SONG SOMEONE ELSE HAS WRITTEN?

Mississippi You're On My Mind by Jesse Winchester


14. HAVE YOU EVER COLLABORATED IN SONGWRITING?

Yes, with Suzanne Thomas on "Searching For My Old Kentucky Home", but I
usually don't. It seems like inviting someone in to help you make love
to your wife....


15. CAN SONGWRITING BE TAUGHT OR IS IT A GOD-GIVEN TALENT?

You can teach songwriting, but I don't know if it can be learned.
You've got to have a talent for it, which is usually just an ability to
edit yourself....


16. WHAT SINGLE THING HAS HELPED YOU MOST IN YOUR CAREER?

Career-wise, it was winning the Merlefest songwriting contest. That
still gets us gigs.


17. WHAT SINGLE THING HAS HINDERED YOUR CAREER?


Until recently, having to earn enough money for a family to live on,
but that's better now and I'm full-time in music.


18. WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE DRINK?

Woodford Reserve Kentucky Bourbon


19. WHO'S YOUR FAVOURITE POLITICIAN?

Kinky Friedman


20. ( THE ADVERT) IN LESS THAN 100 WORDS DESCRIBE YOUR LATEST DISC.

Twelve songs.

 

 
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