![]() It was a song called "You Can't Run Away From Your Heart." Then we got back together again, and she had just finished listening to "A Prairie Home Companion." She said, "Let's write a song about fishing."Īnd again, you two, writing a fishing song. I took both of them to Wendy, and we wrote the minor, bluesy one first, and it got cut by Terri Gibbs, Kathy Mattea, Patty Loveless and Lacy J. Both of them had that same chordal thing, but one of them had the minor mode and one had the major mode. One morning I woke up and I turned on my tape recorder, sat up and played these two pieces of music. I was experimenting with this one particular chording on the guitar that only played the first and fifth tones of the chord, so you could sing either a major or a minor over it. On this one particular visit, I was staying at Shoney's (Inn) over on Demonbreun. With a name like Photoglo, you don't hear it all the time, so people remembered it. I had some pop records out in L.A., and they had gotten played here. She sort of sponsored me here, and introduced me to a lot of people. She suggested that I come out to Nashville. Her father wrote the theme to "Perry Mason" and "Bullwinkle." We had met in L.A. She's an extraordinary, talented woman, and second generation (songwriter). I made three trips to Nashville in 1984 at Wendy's suggestion. So you're making one of your first visits to Nashville, and this is almost one of those dream kind of songs. You and Wendy Waldman write this giant country hit that still keeps on breathing. It's a lot of foot-stomping.īut it's an unlikely song from a California boy. The stories I hear from the (Nitty Gritty) Dirt Band are how their audience react, and it's like that. ![]() ![]() Well, for me, just the fact that people are still listening to it after all these years. It's what my wife would call a "good-mooder." Do you find that after all of these years? I always find myself tapping (my foot to this song). Watch Video: Story Behind the Song: 'Fishin in the Dark'
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