Saturday, Jun 8 2019 - Grant Peeples

A few years down the road I owned a night club that did live music. We had everybody come through there, from BB King to the Judds, The Temptations to George Straight, Jerry Lee Lewis to Dionne Warwick. I was still writing songs, but I was pretty much keeping them to myself. I kept thinking maybe I ought to pitch my songs to some of these folks I was hiring to play in my club, but I only did that once, and that was to Bonnie Raitt. She wrote me a nice little note on a photo she gave me, saying “I liked your songs.”

Jerry Jeff Walker was playing one night, and I went to the airport to pick him up. I had a tape of a couple of my songs there in the truck that I was going to play for him. But after I picked him up we talked about fishing and I didn’t put the tape in or saying anything to him about it. Jerry Jeff wrote Mr. Bojangles. Maybe that’s why I didn’t push my tape in.

Grant Peeples played at Lucky Penny Living Room on Saturday, June 8 2019.