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"Walking The Floor" with Chris Shiflett

Episode 19 - Kevin Smith

"Walking The Floor" with Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett

Performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week Chris interviews upright bass specialist Kevin Smith (Willie Nelson Family Band)

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm walking the floor over you.

0:05.0

Walking the floor.

0:07.0

I'm walking the floor. I'm walking the floor.

0:10.0

Walking the floor over you.

0:15.0

Hey, hey, it's walking the floor time.

0:21.0

This is your old pal Chris Shiplet coming to you from a hotel room in the

0:26.3

nation's capital of Washington DC. I'm out here this weekend with the

0:31.9

Food Fighters because we are going to play the

0:35.1

Firefly Festival in Dover, Delaware and I'm sad to say that I'm going to be

0:40.7

playing it sitting down.

0:47.0

Because last week when I went to go play in my weekly soccer game, I was just filled with the spirit of World Cup.

0:51.0

I went out and I was playing all crazy and running all over the place and trying

0:54.8

to get every ball and promptly broke my foot. So that's right. Eight weeks in a cast, eight weeks on crutches, pretty much destroyed my

1:06.9

summer. No surfing, no family beach days, no lounging by the pool for this guy. Oh well, I guess it's

1:17.0

time for me to slow down. What's you gonna do? Now this week's interview is with one of the greatest bass players working in

1:37.3

all of country music today my buddy Kevin Smith who you may know from his work over the years with bands like High Noon,

1:47.2

local Austin, Hahnke Tunk Supergroup Haybale, he played bass with Dwight Yoakham for a while and currently plays with a guy you

1:56.0

may have heard of named Willie Nelson. It's kind of like the dream country gig of all time.

2:02.0

Now I got to know Kevin years ago after my friend

2:07.9

Justine who I grew up with moved down to Austin and married him and he's been a guy for me he's like my own honky tonk Wikipedia

2:16.5

you know when I have a question about country music roots music rockabilly music whatever it is

2:22.2

I often find myself asking Kevin.

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