Billy Bob Thornton

But people from New York can get parts playing Southerners.

That still goes on.

Absolutely, yeah.

It's ridiculous.

I've known those guys a long time, those guys in Skinner.

Yeah, it's, you're right.

That whole, and also anybody that was from the South got lumped into the Southern rock.

thing right you know and they weren't all just people that sounded like charlie daniels i mean there were very very different types of bands the allman brothers combined jazz and blues and rock and pop and everything and their music they were literally masters the allman brothers allman brothers live at the fillmore east probably the best live album ever made but they just say they're all southern rock bands it's like it wasn't really like that you know um

Very different styles.

They were.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, it's a brilliant song.

And country guys, you know, back in those days when country was actual country music, they would hear some of these songs by those kind of guys like the Allman Brothers or Marshall Tucker, whoever it was, and cut them, you know, for country albums.

Like Waylon Jennings did Midnight Rider.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

Great cover.

Great version of that, you know.

Yeah, it's kind of odd, you know, being raised in the area of the country that people look at as the armpit.

And like I said, once you overcome that...