All gut strings. That’s just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it’s the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

It was really amazing. I mean, he’d never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

And it’s just something that’s always come very naturally to me. And I built about, I don’t know, six, seven, eight guitars in Texas in the late 60s.

It’s just something I’ve always done. In South Texas, the first guitar you get is a Mexican guitar. And the first one I got, the first thing I did was take it apart.

Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he’s just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn’t know, but...

Mary Gauthier’s great. Yeah, we’ve played a lot of gigs together. She’s really wonderful.

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

There aren’t any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So you’re just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can...

I don’t know what the outcome will be. I put a couple away for my grandkids, like that. So I don’t know, who knows? Maybe I’ll start building guitars for a living.

Things change all the time, and they’ll probably never be the same again. It’s just the natural evolution of the human condition. Things change, and whatever it is is what it is. I mean, you...

All these years the people said ‘He’s acting like a kid.’ He did not know he could not fly, so he did. Well he’s one of those that knows that life is just a leap...

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

Well, Darrell is a stunning musician. I mean, he plays anything. The only thing I’ve never heard him play is a fiddle, and I bet he could.

Ain’t no chance if you don’t take it.

I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I’m writing new...

Well, I had a fiddle that I really can’t play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he’s from another planet.

In a town where there are some pretty good writers, he really is our poet laureate.

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I’m getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my...

If there is a moratorium, I think there will be tremendous pressure from both sides to get something done,

I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There’s kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.

We’re gonna play you some songs we know and some we don’t. But we’re pretty good at it. We have no set list, no agenda and no fear.

I’m not a big fan of layered productions.

I see you’re wearing glasses. I never saw you play with glasses before.

I’ve known Shawn for several years. And he’s just an amazing talent. He’s a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.