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I remember drinking a lot of Palomino Whiskey and singing even more songs. They were my friends in Nashville who I could go see no matter what was going on in my life, with my heart, or anything else for that matter. I stayed till around Christmas and then took off for Nashville to see Guy and Susanna Clark. Several more would wind up on records over the years. "Just Wanna Dance" was recorded by Rodney Crowell and Johnny Halladay. "Take Me, Take Me," "Only Human" and "Raining In My Soul" were all recorded by Rosanne Cash. "Train To Dixie" was recorded by Marsha Ball and McKindree Spring, and even Buffett, but he's never released it. I stayed in Key West for most of that summer writing songs. So many cool people, most of whom are still there and still very close to me. Tom Corcoran, Ben “Dink" Benjamin, Phil Tinney, Pat Tinney. The guy asked me "who wants to know?" I said "I'm Keith Sykes and a friend of Jerry Jeff Walker's." They guy said he was Jimmy Buffett, and after that I had a whole new family in Key West. A guy was sweeping up the courtyard and I asked him if Ashley Simmons lives here. Murphy gave me her address and said “if you find her you’ll be in like Flynn with some very cool people”. Jerry Jeff’s girlfriend, Murphy, answered the phone and told me to look up a girl named Ashley Simmons. So, the second time I went to Key West (the first time I drove down, drove around and drove back to Coconut Grove) I called up Jerry Jeff to ask him who I might get in touch with down there.
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Apparently, Jerry Jeff had told Buffett about me while they were on a tour. I went to Key West to regroup and lay low.Ī couple of years before, I was on a tour with Jerry Jeff Walker and he was telling me about a cat named Jimmy Buffett. The girl I was living with, Mary Lou David, had fallen in love with a great songwriter named Walter Hyatt and I was quite heartbroken. Gary P Nunn, Bob Livingston, Willis Allen Ramsey and John Inmon are just a few. Again I met a whole new group of singer songwriters of whom I am proud to still call my friends. After moving to NYC, Jerry Jeff recorded a song of mine called "About Her Eyes." Also during that time McKindree Spring recorded some five songs including "Oh What A Feeling," which was recorded by Rodney Crowell a little later on.īy the middle of 1973, I was ready for a change so I tried Austin, Texas. The Lonesome Rhodes did "I'm Missing You" and The Gentrys did "Silky." I can't remember which one was first. Jerry Jeff Walker, Emmy Lou Harris, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Gary White, Loudon Wainwright III andmany more.īefore I moved to New York I had already gotten a couple of songs recorded. I moved to New York and met a lot of people who are still my friends to this day. I recorded two albums for the Vanguard label during that time, Keith Sykes and 1-2-3, and I played the Coffee House Circuit for the next five years. I remember thinking I could do my own songs for an audience of mature college people who really knew their way around. I was too nervous to hang around at the club to see if we got the job, so Mark found me down the street somewhere and told me we got picked to go on tour. We teamed up and went to New York to audition for the Circuit at the Bitter End on Bleeker Street.
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Mark played bass and knew about the Coffee House Circuit out of New York City. I was in Buffalo, New York when I met Mark Goldfarb. I had been writing songs in earnest and had picked up quite a bit of performing technique over the months with Holiday Inns.
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I auditioned for the Holiday Inns singing "Alice's Restaurant." They gave me a roundtrip airline ticket and room and board at the hotel plus $150.00 a week salary.īy August I had grown tired of playing for businessmen who weren't really listening and I was thinking about another way to do this music thing. The summer before I had hitch-hiked to Newport, Rhode Island to the Newport Folk Festival and saw Arlo Guthrie sing "Alice's Restaurant." In the fall of that year I got a copy of the album and learned that whole song. I could do "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" and "This Guy's In Love With You" and I can't remember what all right now but I learned. I didn't care much about songs other than Dylan songs, but I wanted to work so I learned. No one wanted to hire a one man Dylan cover band so I set out to learn some popular songs of the day. So many that I had to make myself learn some other songs so I could get a gig. I was two years out of high school and been playing guitar for a little over two years. My first real gig was at a Holiday Inn in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina, for two weeks in February, 1968. 简介:Has it really been 40 years since I started down this music highway? I guess I'll have to say, yes it has.