So we went to Bourbon and took his job at the Bayou Room, a folk club which is now the Maiden Voyage. It was great. Steven Stills had his first job there, and so did Jimmy Buffet. We played from 2-5 a.m. That was my introduction to the New Orleans music scene. We did everything.
Sixties rock and roll.
We knew all the uncool tunes of the time. After that, there was the road with a show band, then in New England, playing coffee house dues. I moved back to New Orleans in 1978 to go to graduate school and started developing my solo style then. I did do some work with bands, but realized that the best thing for me was solo because I could get up and running quickly. I did Tipitinia's on Wednesdays and the Maple Leaf, which became my anchor, on Sundays.