A: Woodie Long was a housepainter. He sold 10,000 paintings, once he started painting. They were stories about his youth.
Q: Fishing stories?
A: Stories about working as a sharecropper.
Stories about work.
But also he watched television.
I remember when he started paining Tour de
France paintings. The peloton.
Q: He always painted bicycles.
A: Kites, schoolbuses, New York taxicabs, bluegrass musicians.
I wore
a Woodie Long T-shirt to the Sam Doyle show, in Atlanta.
Why not take the
MARTA train?
