Jim Casey talks with Randy Rogers about:
- his very successful 2017
- writing his first songs as an 11-year-old
- the best song he’s ever written, “In My Arms Instead”
- the healing power of music
- getting his start singing in the church choir
- picking up the guitar for the first time as a 12-year-old
- the path that Robert Earl Keen blazed for Texas singer/songwriters
- today’s up-and-coming crop of talented songwriters, including Parker McCollum, William Clark Green and Red Shahan
- graduating from Texas State University in San Marcos in 2001 with a degree in Mass Communications
- removing himself from social media
- the family aspect of his band, including having the same crew and bus driver
- using a number of producers over his career, including Radney Foster, Paul Worley, Jay Joyce, Lloyd Maines and Buddy Cannon
- working on his upcoming album, which is being produced by Dave Cobb and tentatively slated to drop this fall
- making Hold My Beer: Vol. 2 with Wade Bowen and touring together
- his charitable work with Cheatham Street Live
Participants:
- Randy Rogers of Randy Rogers Band
- Jim Casey, editor in chief
