
One other item from CMT you might want to check out: a recent interview with Toby Keith and Trace Adkins.
They may be superstars now, but they enjoy looking back to before they were famous.
Here’s an excerpt:
Both also remember the challenges of playing music for people who didn’t really care who was standing on the stage.
“You had nights where you didn’t have anybody in there,” Keith recalled.
“Yeah, the bartender and a couple of old drunks,” Adkins said. “And you still had to get up and do your set … because you had to. And we were traveling around in an old beat-up van that was barely running, pulling a trailer full of beat-up gear. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn’t.”
“And if something broke down, nobody got paid that week,” Keith said.
“Yeah, nobody got paid,” Adkins added.