Dear Mr. President, Can I Ask You

My Thought Was I Should Try To Stick With Names That People May Recognize Like Robert Johnson, Son House, And Hoagy Carmichael, So If Somebody Cared To Research, They Would Find A Wealth Of Material.

If Fans Are Going To Turn On Me Because Of This, They Weren't My Fans Anyway. I Couldn't Betray A Whole 25 Years Of Record Making And Not Do This. I Had To.

My Grandmother Made Sure That I Went To Church Every Sunday. And Shed Come Over And Pick Us Boys Up, And We Would Go To The Nazarene Church. And Back Then, That Was About As Close To Heaven As I Ever Got, Because Just The Time To Be Able To Spend With Her, And She Was Very, Very Religious.

Nobody Heard Anything Ahead Of Time.

Back In The '80s And '90s, When There Was Still A Record Business, There Was Pressure On Anyone Who Was Fortunate To Have A Few Hits On A Major Label To Continue That Success.