DATE:  06/09/06

NAME: Nancy Apple

INSTRUMENT(s): Vocals/Guitar

CURRENT
RELEASE: ‘River Road or Rail’ (duet with Rob McNurlin)

WEBSITE: wwww.nancyapple.com

1. Biggest Influence(s)?
Johnny Cash, Sun Records and Sam Phillips, Hank Williams Sr., Buck Owens, Cordell Jackson and all those hillbilly, blues and cowboy singers I have met over the years.

2. Favourite records/tracks old or new?
I love Haggard's "Take Me Back Home", Johnny Cash's "Beans For Breakfast" I love old Hawaiian music, cowboy songs and old Memphis music circa Sun erra and on into Stax.

3. What would you be if not a musician?
Seriously obnoxious.

4. Career high point so far?
Being friends with Albert King and Rufus Thomas, gigs with Cordell Jackson, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Being on the road with Rob McNurlin.

5. Perfect night off?   
Would be a day time road trip checking out old neon, western wear stores and pawn shops for old Martin guitars.

6. Most recent CD in your CD player?  
Rob McNurlin, Sacred Hymns.

7. Favourite book/film?
I read a lot, but I always come back to Johnny Cash reading to me, his reading of the bible, there are a lot of movies I like, old sci fi and Cary Grant.

8. Whiskey - Jack or Jim?
Both of those boys are too tuff for me to hang with.