Will Allison
Will Allison
Will Allison is an American novelist and editor. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Long Drive Homeand What You Have Left...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 October 1968
CountryUnited States of America
country song people
The British rockers saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie Fame and Van Morrison and all those people. The only person who ever did my songs in [ U.S] country was Bonnie Raitt.
mistake men firsts
I remember the first check I got from The Who's recording [of "Young Man Blues"]. I'd been getting checks for $10 and $15 and so forth, and this one was for a much larger amount than that. I thought it was a mistake.
song track records
I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.
song people care
I'm happy whenever anybody does my material. I don't care what they do with it. I do what I want to with other people's songs.
night years feels
I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.
song writing news
I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.
years sound inspired
I'm not inspired by songwriting at all; that took place years ago. I'm pretty well established, as far as my influences go. I don't listen to music anymore. It all sounds the same to me.
piano improvising
I'm improvising all the time. Everything I do is improvised. On the piano, at least.
kings player classic
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
years concerts nightclubs
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
I'm playin' the music I like.
daughter style age
I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.
night years able
I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.
jobs night play
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.