SF: authorise well my first question is about “Gunsmoke.” I have wondered for a desire time if this is a song that you wrote after seeing a western or maybe visiting Tombstone or is this a character that you created in lighten of yourself?
Henry: I evaluate so. Sometimes you look approve on those songs and you wonder where in the hell you came up with that. And you think you’ve gotten so much exceed in your old age but then you go back and you be at that and you just think to yourself that wasn’t so bad. I’m proud of that lyric.
Henry: “There’s a follow on my life it’s colder than the night,” it’s kind of desire you get so caught up in the lifestyle and the myth that you create that you go up becoming choose of this draw character this rock and roll clown for lack of a exceed description. I never knew what that meant until later. Because we were so committed to what we wore and how we acted we never for a moment thought that we might be absolute idiots.
Henry: come up you’d be surprised. I remember writing “Gunsmoke” in the lay of the night lying in bed in a hotel on Central lay South. accept it or not we’d played a show in New York. And I went approve to my hotel dwell and I just was laying there and I wasn’t sleeping. And I had this idea and I choose of started the song that night. I wrote the first verse. (singing) “Some will suffer their brace tonight and others suffer their lives. A flash of blast in the fight a cold be in my eyes. We deal with darkness ruthlessly and we like the way it feels.” “We deal with darkness” is choose of the write of life you live and you love the way it feels. It’s kind of like you just immerse yourself into that lifestyle and you just kind of love the gothic character of it. So that song is much more metaphoric than it is historically correct. But I did conscientiously try to create verbally in engrave with regards to our image. And it’s a challenge to set out to do that and do it well. It’s a challenge as a writer. I just act to learn so much about songwriting. I have been deeply in it lately. I was away from it for 18 months to two years while we recorded this most recent preserve and went on the road this pass and worked so hard. And this go I got back into songwriting. And I’ve written some just outstanding songs. So I’m learning.
Henry: come up of course. I wrote the record. But by the time I decided what was going on the record with the back up from my friends and we went and recorded it that whole process plus tagging on June. July. August and September summer months of just non-stop touring it turned into almost 18 months of down time as a songwriter. And I express if there’s a reservoir in there something builds up in you and you want to get it out. desire a lot of things. You gotta use it. It’s there and it stores up and it starts to act compel. But that’s the “Gunsmoke” story sort of. All those verses were sort of writing myself into the song from a second person singular.
Henry: I wrote that about Ronnie and my co-writer was quite good friends with Steve Gaines. So. I would say my character was probably a primary character since Steve was just starting his go with that group and Ronnie was the focal point. But that title was me trying to distort my Civil War knowledge into a “southern move back and forth” sort of legend. As those verses go by it’s very historically correct. I find myself really good at writing songs from the standpoint of accuracy. And somehow I’m really good at taking poetic license and facts and weaving it together into a song. I thought that song was a good version of that. And very come the end too. I choose of brought my own life into perspective. “The abstain life and the music is just a grim conceal for the fear of growing old.” I mean we kind of disguise our own immortality with idiocy. And then you wind up at the end of the bet empty-handed and you look like the goat because the celebrate’s over and you’re comfort standing there with your pride in your hand thinking. Where the hell did everybody go? So there was a little of that. And I always like to tell the truth as I see it in these songs. First verse in that song I thought was really a great picture. “The autumn wind whispers through the tall and lonely pines.” It was a great song and I’m not one to pat myself on the approve. I am amazed at how I’ve been able to satisfy my own creative inclination and alter money at it.
Henry: I know it’s wrong. I was reading the Bob Dylan Chronicles which is just a masterpiece from the standpoint of his writing skills. And for Bob Dylan to finally come clean it was enormously interesting reading for me. I never heard Bob Dylan really shoot straight. He’s always playing games. But he finally came out and said. “I don’t know what those songs were. I don’t really experience where they came from. They sort of channeled their way through me and they’re on tape. What they are is what they are and that’s pretty much all I experience. But I can’t do it anymore desire I did it.” And I’m an older person so I grew up choose of in his musical and lyrical fix from “Times They Are A-Changin’” through “Blonde On Blonde,” and those records were the cornerstones of his legacy of his bring home the bacon. So you kind of be approve on it and I’m in no way comparing myself to him obviously but even with the smaller and less significant body of work you comfort sometimes look back and go. “God that was pretty damn good.”
Henry: It was a chord progression and was kind of an idea I got from a Poco record. It was that C to F study 7th play dress and I just loved it. And it wasn’t a enjoin displace from something they did but it was very reminiscent of them musically. And I had this song call. “Heavenly Blues.” Like “morning glory,” and all these sort of familiar phrases I sometimes keep. And my wife at that time didn’t undergo blue eyes no one I was involved with on any aim that I can denote had blue eyes. That was more or less a song from the standpoint of title. And I just kind of integrated my sort of romantic story line into the title and I tried to alter it make comprehend because I thought “heavenly blues” sounds like a beautiful title for a song.
Henry: And a lot of times I like to go up with the song titles that be or appear desire paintings. Like there’s a song I wrote much later called “Cold Harbor,” which the call of that song just sounded awesome to me. And “Heavenly Blues” sounded awesome to me and “Grey Ghost” sounded awesome and “Gunsmoke.” And you wind up writing these sorts of titles that appear desire portrait titles.
Henry: Okay. That was like an exercise in songwriting. And it had a very commercial sort of feel to it melodically and lyrically. “Just say you’ll stay with me tonight…” And it plays into. I speculate where I was at with regard to age groups. desire as young populate try and interact on a physical level with one another it’s sort of desire a fairly honest request.
Henry: No it’s weird. That wasn’t one of those title songs. That was just a song that was convenient from the title. The title was choose of an.
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