My desire to do a thing is always greater than my fear of it.
I thought, “These people ain’t gonna like me. They’re here to have fun and hoop and holler and smoke dope and drink their beer and have fun and they’re not gonna wanna hear me singing my little pitiful country songs.”
But they did.
They accepted me.
And they loved me.
And I remember singing with Linda (Ronstadt) that day, and she was hot as a pistol at that time and she was my friend.
She and Emmylou (Harris) had always said I’d been a big influence on them, and that’s one of the reasons we eventually did the Trio album.
She had asked me to sing a song with her, and so I just remembered that.
I felt, again, kind of like with “Here You Come Again,” I felt like I’d kind of made it.
It was back there in a time when I said I had that kind of that underground following.
I was beginning to make a name for myself and people like the Linda Ronstadt’s and a lot of the people in the business had a respect for me as a writer and singer.
I don’t know all the reasons why people think what they think or do.
I’m just glad they did.
But I just remember going out there, and they were just really, really responsive to me.
And I made the most of it.
My desire to do a thing is always greater than my fear of it.
So I’m sure I just kind of went on out and did it.
And it worked out okay.
Watch my performance of “Jolene” at Glastonbury:
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