"It was really cool... I had the keys to Gary Schiff's studio at 1015 Main Street and Gary had all of these guitars, basses, amps, drums, synths, great mikes, effects units, etc. AND I was unemployed at the time which meant I had the time to do the recording, soooo...

  "Funny, everyone in town knew I was doing this recording, and there were a lot of good musicians running around (some of Jerry Jeff Walker's guys, et al.) and I'd be in there recording and need a part played, and I'd look out the window and invariably someone would walk by, and I'd talk 'em into playing a lick or two... I don't play drums or lead guitar good enough for my tastes, but I did play nearly all of the bass parts, acoustic guitar, and synthesizer stuff, and I mixed it all. I played lead on "Li'l Dougies Vamp" and some of it on "Hard to Satisfy You."

  "Anyway, I got alot of airplay on "Looking Glass" up here in Nashville on a radio station called Local Lightning 100. In fact, that's how I met my wife, Kelley. She was dolling up to go out partying one Saturday night, and she heard it on the radio and was digging it, and they announced "That was local songwriter Doak Snead!"

  "The next day, we met, by chance, in the break room at the Country Music Hall of Fame...that's where the one line in "Prettiest Thing I've ever Seen" came from, that very moment -- "I met her o'er a coffee cup in a room that had no blinds."

  "I had to push 1015 to have a new product for the 1988 Kerrville Folk Festival. Rod Kennedy called me, in February, to ask if I could fill in for the hot country duo of that time, "The O'Kanes," who had to cancel out, soooo...