So, you’re doing your “Get Folked Tour” again this year,
what’s that about for those who don’t know.
There’s a whole scene out there and it comes from folk tra-
dition before there were rock clubs and music venues that
were churches and public houses, people’s barns and liv-
ing rooms and that’s where music was spread from town
to town. That’s how culture and news traveled. These days
there are people throughout the country who have converted
their homes to semi-professional clubs and have folk musi-
cians who come in and play once a month, a couple of times
a year, and we took that concept one step further. I am an
artist who is inspired by the community that surrounds our
music these days and for a couple of months every single
year, we give my band a little time to rest up and I head out
to the living rooms of 50 fans all over the country and do con-
certs in their living rooms. Fans can sign up to be a host and
I have an awesome team who picks the hosts and do a crazy
juggling act of trying to get me to 50 different living rooms
all over the place. This years the tour is a little more compli-
cated because I got invited to go out on tour with John Oates
(Hall and Oates) right in the middle of that tour so…
He’s doing a solo tour?
Yeah, and it’s awesome stuff, it’s very rootsy and he has an
awesome band on the road with him.
How did that come about?
We have the same manager and he manages Hall and Oates
for like 30 years and he told John about my stuff and John
listened and invited me down to Nashville to write with him
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