Michael Cleveland

... a cooch that smells like pumpkin pie.

Take it, Michael.

[upbeat music]

[laughs]

We got a bunch of great stuff coming up today.

That was a special request.

That was, uh, Pat Godwin and the great Michael Cleveland on the fiddle because, uh, this is the pumpkin spice season.

And we have another interesting survey about coffee today.

Um, y-

Michael Cleveland?

Michael Cleveland.

Didn't he play-

Definitely

Well, one time he hit me up and was like, "I need a fiddle player.

You wanna come over and jam?" And I was like, "Oh, God." [laughs] I was very young, and I was terrified, but, uh, he was like, "I don't feel like playing fiddle tonight.

I wanna play guitar or something." [laughs] And he was just like, "I need a fiddle player." Uh, but yeah, of course Michael Cleveland's, like, one of the best.

And that's part of the reason why she went back to pop music.

I did have the thought, listening to Cleveland, maybe Joe Elwin did actually write all of Folklore.

Maybe those people aren't crazy.

I don't think, you know, I don't think he wrote all of it, but I do.

and

I can tell by how that's going and the response to things I do whether I'm really getting across to the people you know and last night up in Oregon Michael Cleveland the brilliant brilliant young fiddle player was in town and he played a set at another venue not far from me and then he showed up and at my show and I got him out and I made I made sure that I got him out right when I had I had the cannon loaded, you know.

I had brought the show to a certain point and I said, I'm loaded now.

And out comes Michael Cleveland and we just tear into the tall fiddler and it knocked the roof right off the place.

Oh, boy.

Yeah.

about that.

Or you can go to Southern Legacy's Facebook page, which is ran by Teresa, which is Mike's wife, Teresa Anglin.

She is the best at taking care of all of that kind of stuff.

She does so much for our band and we couldn't do it without her.

And I got chosen for that to play banjo, which was primarily what I was doing back then.

And, of course, Chris Thiele was the mandolin player.

Mike Cleveland was the fiddle player.

Cody Kilby was a guitar player.

And his name is Sean Sullivan.

Sean's engineering and production skills are credited on many important Roots music albums of the past decade, including two Molly Tuttle Grammy Award winners, music by the Del McCurry Band and the Travelin' McCurries, plus Tyler Childers, the Steel Drivers, Michael Cleveland, Andrew Marlin, and more.

Now he does most of his work at a studio north of Goodlettsville, Tennessee called The Tractor Shed.

So I asked if I could come up and he said, sure.