[WM] I absolutely love your project All Over
the Map, because good music is all over
Garth and Steve
the map! No single style of music has “it all”.
Greatness can be found in a lot of places.
You’ve performed and assembled an amazing
collection of compositions and an all-star cast
here, that is a must-hear for aspiring musicians.
Please tell us about this project.
[Steve] Well I started working on a few songs.
It started with a song called “CGP”. I wrote it
in twenty minutes. This whole CGP stuff. I was
thinking I should get these CGP guys out to my
studio. I was thinking, “Well, we should film it.
We should cut some other things too. I think
I’m making a record here”. And then I had a
guy from Australia, his name is Ian Moss, he’s
in a band called Cold Chisel. They’re a huge
Australian band. They still are mega. He was
coming to the US and wanted to write. And
I got with him and we wrote “Girl Like You”.
That’s why there are some mentions of Sydney,
Australia like the Manzil room and some things
in Sydney. Then I wrote some other tunes.
I was writing some weird songs that really
didn’t go with the album. I was writing songs
all over the map, that’s why it’s called All Over
the Map. That’s the beauty. Nowadays you can [Steve] It’s way more apropos now after my longer then some people. Just keep working
get away with that. Twenty years ago, no label Hall of Fame stuff. Do not be afraid to dream hard. Work at your craft, write songs. Just keep
would let you do that. No way, no how. I went really big. Go for it. If that’s what you feel in your working!”
to one of my labels when I did the album No heart. Music, or whatever it is. I can tell you it More Mister Nice Guy, which was a critically can happen for you. I’m proof of it. I’m a little kid [WM] In closing I’d like to ask you a fun
acclaimed album, we were nominated for a from a little farm town in Indiana. Laying in bed question. If you owned a food truck, what
Grammy. It was an interesting album with Larry at night wondering if I’d ever get to the Grand would you serve and where would you park it?
Carlton and all kinds of guests. They (the label) Old Opry, I’d go through my speech in my head said, “No way”. This was the early 90’s. And I after I’d get done singing, 2am in the morning, [Steve] My first thought went to some sort of
asked, “What if I paid for it myself?” They just never sleeping, I had it all laid out. “Thank you soft tacos. The most profitable place would be
didn’t want anything to do with it. Nowadays ladies and gentleman”. I would just lay there in East Nashville, somewhere around 5 points.
you can do it. But now it’s our own label. What and dream about what I wanted to do one day. Tacos are great because they are hand food.
am I going to do, fire myself? I think for me it
It’s fast and easy. That’s a good one.
just exposes everything I love. A little jazz, a It can come true for sure. I was kind of
little swing. It’s just a way for me to express my disappointed after my first single had come
love. All the genres I love and respect. If I knew out, but it kind of nose-dived. RCA put a lot
Opera, there would be an Opera song on it as of money into it, it had strings. I went to Chet
well. Atkins and asked, “What happened? We died
[WM] Thank you Steve for this great visit!
at #88”. And Chet said to me, “We got it. Talent
[WM] What words of advice do you offer will always win out in the end. You just work
young musicians, songwriters, and singers? hard, and don’t give up. It doesn’t ever happen
the same way for two people. It may take you
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