DATE: 31/07/07
NAME: Randy Lindley (aka "bobo")
(Amber Digby & Midnight Flyer)
INSTRUMENT(s): Lead Guitar
CURRENT RELEASE: ‘Honky Tonk Happy Hour - live at the continental club’ (with former band, Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers...
Randy will be in the studio with Amber Digby in October 2007...)
1. Biggest Influence(s)?
don rich, grady martin, roy nichols, leon rhodes, jimmy capps, phil baugh, george owens, jimmy bryant, dicky overbey
2. Favourite records/tracks old or new?
a. paycheck on little darlin'
b. ray & the cherokee cowboys on columbia w/jimmy day & buddy emmons on steel
c. buck on capitol
d. haggard on capitol
e. conway on decca w/john hughey on steel
f. jones on mercury and musicor
h. faron on mercury
i. ernest & the troubadors on decca in '66 ("the band" - leon rhodes, buddy charleton, jack green, jack drake, & cal smith)
3. What would you be if not a musician?
maybe a sound engineer or producer...i'd have to be involved with music in some way, even if i couldn't play a lick....
4. Career high point so far?
probably playing fan fair in nashville...back in 1991 (in my bluegrass days)..i was 17 and we played in front of over 15,000 people...and to top it off, i got to sit in on banjo for bill monroe's set that day...
5. Perfect night off?
hangin' with amber d, her son, and my 3 children...
6. Most recent CD in your CD player?
listening to the steel guitar wizardry of pete drake and tammy wynette's soulful voice from her "tears of fire" cd box set
7. Favourite book/film?
i'm a huge laurel & hardy fan....and i mean huge....
8. Whiskey - Jack or Jim?
neither...i gotta have jameson