Listener supported WNYC Studios do you remember the first time you left home or left?
Well, the first trip I ever made about my music and the first trip I ever made.
I was young.
I was little then.
12, 11 was to go to Lake Charles, Louisiana, from Knoxville.
You know, it was a long trip.
They put us on a bus.
Do you remember how that felt to be on that bus?
Yeah, it felt well.
I like the wheels.
I remember loving the motion.
So there was the studio there, and so Uncle Bill thought I should come down there and make a record.
And, oh, I saw Spanish Moss for the first time.
I thought it was the strangest, most wonderful, mysterious thing I'd ever seen.
Cause it was so different, you know, that swamp and those cypress trees and the drive.
I just remember that's the first time I ever seen, like, the sand and the beach and the ocean.
First true love, too.
It was my first record.
And I got a crush on Johnny.
Little Johnny.