Robert "Fastpickin' " Johnson and David Harley Davidson first met at a rodeo show in Kansas City way back in 1963. Robert, a popular KAOL Radio DJ, didn't think too much of David at first, much thanks to his 1958 hit single "Don't Gimme No Coyote For Dinner Woman", but as soon as the two of them started kidding around with some guitars at the afterparty later that night, they both realized they'd just found their soulmates. So they shelved everything; their jobs, their other bands and even their girls. Fate had brought two people together. Their music was meant to be.
My first meeting with the guys was during the "Geography" sessions. I had been hired to check what all the fuzz around this new and up-coming band was about. So basically, I was just a fly on the wall whilst Bob&Dave recorded "Geography" and "Blue Eyed Seventeen". What I remember most about these sessions, was the obscure recording tecniques which they used. The drums went via an amplifier, which again was miced with a toy microfone. The vocals were recorded through a tuba, with Dave singing into the horn. The whole thing was just crazy, and yet it came to them so instinctivly. And the atmosphere... And the songs... Wow! I remember thinking to myself: "This is what magic feels like. This is history in the making." Anyway, I wrote only beautiful things about them in the article and we wound up being close friends.
This record is the testament of the very first sessions that Bob&Dave enjoyed together. It really captures the true honesty and rawness that the band is all about. It's beautiful country music from the hearts of two beautiful men.
Jerry Carl Zonta
Journalist, Rolling Stone Magazine