Brother Jess interviewed Aaron Neville on his Gospel show on WWOZ. Brother
Jess always closes his show with Neville's "Going Home."
Hazel
was pulling the lps and CDs for her Old Time Country and Bluegrass Music show, which
followed Brother Jess. Neville asked her if she'd play some Sons of the Pioneers,
perhaps "Roundup in the Sky."
Hazel asked him if he'd stick around
and be interviewed about his love of cowboy music and he said, yes, he loved the
Sons of the Pioneers, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autry. He'd be glad to talk about them.
"They'd just stop riding and play," he said. "They didn't need electricity."
Neville even sang a Jimmie Rodgers song, a capella, and yodeled at the end.
Neville played Man with Gun in Everybody's All-American, with Dennis Quaid.
Filmed in nearby Baton Rouge.
Sometimes, he said, he felt like he had a hellhound
on his trail. An allusion to the classic Robert Johnson blues song. Johnson did
have a hellhound on his trail. And stones in his passway.
Neville pointed
over his shoulder at Larry Schlueter, husband of Hazel, and Jack Saunders, friend
of Larry and Hazel, grinning like a pair of fools, one of them with coffee spilled
down his shirt. Out in public. A gunfighter with no gun is scary.