David Briggs

And you would think that was the end of the story.

But a producer by the name of Roy Day had heard some Motown demos.

Motown wanted to have country covers of their hits.

So a producer there enlisted Gary to cover a bunch of Motown songs like Sugar Pie Honey Punch.

And he sang the hell out of Roy heard that tape, and when he got signed to RCA as a producer, the first person he wanted to find was Gary Stewart.

Again, Gary probably thought, well, that's it.

Nashville's done with me.

Well, I tell you, I wrote an article about Gary for the Village Voice.

Yes.

Did you, at that stage, was it, did you feel it was relatively easy writing material for a new album and bringing that out? By the time, 'cause you'd done Thank You, and then once again you'd sort of, you'd d- that was quite a live album in the studio with producer David Briggs.

Then comes-

Yeah

Was that

David Briggs or who was that, Harold? Yeah.

No, that's Willie Rainsford.

Willie Rainsford, okay.

And they were both very helpful when I moved and got established.

And I just met some great people who were just really... really kind to me david briggs he got me he was a leader on a lot of sessions and he started hiring me in like 81 and jerry reed and then i worked with chet in 83 i was playing on an eddie arnold album chet was involved in playing, uh, producing, I guess.

Chet kind of, uh, took me under his wing.

Wow.