Your daughter plays a lot on this album…
She plays a lot on all my albums. I wanted her to play banjo on it, but she wouldn’t do it. I kept trying to talk her into it, she plays piano and bass, but I couldn’t talk her into it. I thought it would be really cool if she would. If she’d wanted to do it she could have learned in two weeks, she just that quick. But she’s a really good singer and a really good bass player, so why not use her? Didn’t she do a good job? If you were a producer wouldn’t you use her?
Is there a solo project in her future?
She’s not ready for a career, she doesn’t… she’s not ready yet, she doesn’t really care. She says, “as soon as I get my band together.” She’s had managers call her and record companies, ready for when she decides to do something. They’re all still waiting (laughs). They’ve been waiting for three years, so we’ll see what happens. I don’t even think about it anymore, you know? She has to do that, she has to go out and play in front of 20 people and hone your trade. We’ll see what happens.
Yeah, that would be tough to do, to kind of wade in there…
Or she could go play with her father in front of thousands of people without doing anything. That’s the problem: she can play in front of those people without having to work very hard at it. If she goes off on her own, that’s a whole other thing.
So you’ve got her spoiled…
I don’t know, I just keep them waiting. What can I say, you know? Like, she could completely eclipse my career. People would call and say, “we want to talk to the father of Cassie Taylor.” That would be the phone calls; they wouldn’t be about me anymore if she decides to go for it.
You got out of the music business for quite a while…
Nineteen years, yeah.
What made you want to get back into it?
It was kind of an accident. In the ‘80s I was involved with bicycle racing. I had a team called the Buccaneer Team, which was the clothing store line in Colorado. They had eight stores. In the ‘90s he went bankrupt. He only sponsored teams for three and a half years in the ‘80s, in the ‘90s went bankrupt and I ran into him and he said, “I’m going to open up a coffeehouse and have music. Would you help me get a PA system?” I told him I would help him get a PA system and I’ll call some guys to come play, ‘cause he’s such a sweet person. So I did and one thing led to another thing and I was back in it again.
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