Check out the interview Creative Loafing intern Ted Scheinman did with Blind Buddy Moody, a hardcore troubadour of the highest order.
CL: How do you feel about the way Nashville is going?
BB: Well, uh, haha, I dunno. I mean the country they’re callin’ now is more like the rock and roll of the 60s, 70s, and… I dunno. Keep things in perspective, you know. Merle Travis said, you don’t put mustard on your ice cream and you don’t put chocolate syrup on your hot dogs. You know what I mean? Just leave it alone, don’t mess with something if it’s working. But then people, they’re thinking big bucks, and that’s when they took country music uptown, Patsy Kline was part of that movement, and Chet Atkins had a lot to do with that, and in later years he regretted it, he said.
Click here to read Ted's review of a recent Moody concert and the rest of his Q&A with the country/folk singer.
This article appears in Aug 1-7, 2007.