EDWIN MCCAIN MOVIE
There is another movie that our guitar player turned me onto, I can’t think of who wrote it but it is a movie called, Big Night. I think one of my favorites is Dangerous Liasons, that film with John Malkovich and Wild at Heart, by David Lynch all of that Raising Arizona stuff and all of the Monty Python stuff. Oh yeah, there is a lot of down time in this industry so you end up going to lots of movies. I don’t even know where that came from.(Laughs) It was really funny doing that Monty Python and the Holy Grail thing. And I was so involved with the songwriting aspect. I played by myself for so long it never occurred to me to play lead. I know that you play acoustic guitar but do you also play lead guitar. I have really enjoyed the advance copy of the new album and the DVD was very good. It’s three acoustic guitars and saxophone.
He took me under his wing and I began playing in Hilton Head for a summer and then went to Vail in the winter and had a great time doing it.Īre you playing out solo now or with a band? I remember we went to dinner and the more he talked the more I was sold on playing music for a living. Then dad asked Shannon out to dinner with us to talk me out of playing music for a living.
He was up there doing mostly cover songs and I thought it was such a cool job. He was such a great musician and I was so into what he was doing. Right, I had met a guy named Shannon Tanner in Colorado that played in Hilton Head in the summers, and Vail in the winters. I read somewhere that you played quite a bit at Hilton Head. I was at the University of South Carolina for a minute, and then I went to the College of Charleston. I played in a band in Greenville and then when I went off to college I restarted my musical career as a solo artist. When you started playing out did you play solo or with a band? Oh, definitely KISS - and Boston, Queen, all the standard rock and roll answers that I think everyone my age went through. Looking at the slide show on the DVD, all those shots of you sticking out your tongue, I thought you may have gone through a KISS phase too. Like every kid I went through my Van Halen phase. Wilson Pickett, Marvin Gaye, Spencer Davis Group, Earth, Wind, and Fire, obviously. Who would you say were your major musical influences early on, besides David? Then my friend, Steven Gayle would let me work on songwriting and we really hit it off and that is kind of how I got started. I was so enthralled with it because I had listened to a guy named David Wilcox who has had lots of amazing records and is a real poet and master with words. He turned me onto a lot of the interesting music that I did not know about and he was always writing music, and sitting around playing. He was way into Joco Pastorius and Weather Report and lots of stuff, and some of the music that I was into like Earth, Wind, and Fire, and lots of the Motown sounds. He had a small studio in his house and he taught me a lot about music. When I first got really interested in writing and playing I used to hang out with a guy named Steven Gayle, who is still in Greenville some and is a great musician. When you first became interested in writing and playing music?
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Bob Powell over at the church taught us all how to sing, and then I ended up playing guitar some with dad at Chapel and then I got into a band at school during my high school days. I understand your dad does some music at that church. I am just very fortunate.ĭid you attend school at Christ Church Episcopal? He is a pediatrician in town and I was adopted into an incredible family. Is it true that you were born in Greenville? We spoke to Edwin about his new DVD, upcoming new CD and life in the South. I went along with it because I thought, “Hey, they’re the record company.
For so long it was basically: wear this, cut your hair this way, do this, say that. “I’m kind of back in control instead of being the puppet figurehead. The great thing about being on an indie label, according to McCain, is being in control of his own life and destiny. In fact, he is so busy that he had to conduct our phone interview from California, although he and his wife live right in the heart of Greenville, South Carolina, not five miles from the GRITZ office. These days, Edwin McCain is busier than ever, which is somewhat odd considering he just quit the major label Atlantic Records to sign with a small Tennessee indie called ATC Records.
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