ION INDIE MAGAZINE January 2016, Volume 20 | Page 11

JP: What do you enjoy doing outside of your music? Hobbies or interests?
JC: e problem with hobbies is nding time to do them. I have a really strange hobby. I like to
paint ca le skulls. I love skulls. I know that sounds really weird and really creepy, but I literally
have, like a hundred ca le skulls in my basement. In the winter, I take them and bleach them.
en, I do paintings on them. I love to do artwork with old ca le skulls and some of my old
guitars that I grew up playing as a kid, but are no longer playable or xable. I turn them into art.
I went to college for volleyball. So, in the summer, I love sand volleyball. We get all these
musicians from Nashville and meet at a bar and play sand volleyball together. It’s so much fun.
It’s one of my favorite things to do.
JP: Do you have a favorite venue, you know, some place that just feels like home when
you take the stage?
JC: FULL THRO LE SALOON was a really big one for us because we were the house band
there for eight years before they got their TV show. We opened for ROB ZOMBIE there and it
was incredible. Another is FULL MOON SALOON in Daytona for “Bike Week”.
JP: If you could play to a sold-out crowd anywhere in the world, where would it be?
JC: I think it would almost be a religious experience to play RED ROCKS. It’s so incredible.
Once you see it, people or no people, it’s so massive and beautiful. When the sun sets behind
you like that…it’s amazing.
JP: If you had to liken yourself to any artist, past or present, who would it be?
JC: I’m a combination of things. I have a lot of the characteristics of SHERYL CROW. She has
this Rock ‘n’ Roll edgy personality to her. Her rst albums kinda re ected that. en later on
she got into more eclectic stuff, which is what I did on my “Modern Day Gypsy” album. I relate
to her as a songwriter as well, because I just keep pushing myself for songwriting as well. She
went through a period of time where everything she did was kinda mainstream and poppy, and
they were massive hits for her. I think I’m right there now. Also, STEVIE NICKS, in the
mysteriousness of it; the darkness of Stevie Nicks. I think I relate to that really well. She’s like,
this mystery. She’s like, this gypsy that oats in and kinda grabs ahold of you with the words she
has to say--and then she’s gone and all you have are the words she le for you. IZZY HALE and
I have pre y parallel lifestyles. She did the “cover band” thing, playing Grunge and 80’s Metal.
en she nally got her shot to do her own thing. I’d like to think I will get the chance to do my
own thing as well to that same kind of level.
JP: She and AREJAY have been doing this since they were just kids.
JC: Yeah, I was in my rst bar band at six years old. We’ve been playing our whole lives. When
you nd people that have pounded the pavement, played the bars here and there and
everywhere from the time they were children, they’re gonna have some chops.