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A Conversation with Pieta Brown (continued)
PM: What's your mom like? What's her name?
PB: Melanie.
PM: What's she like?
PB: She's a great mother.
PM: Does she live down south?
PB: No. She lives in Iowa now.
PM: And does she love the music you're doing?
PB: Yeah, she's been extremely supportive also. She's a big part of what I'm doing. She's always been my first and best critic with my writing. And then when I started playing music, I went to her first, too.
PM: Wow. I like the sound of all that. Is she a player herself, or just knows about it?
PB: She just knows about it.
PM: Yeah. She's been about it your whole life, I imagine.
PB: She also plays the drums sometimes.
PM: [laughs] That's unexpected. She plays the drums.
PB: And she's a true dancer.
PM: Does Bo tour with your dad still, or are you guys touring all the time together now?
PB: He does. Bo works with my dad also.
PM: And with Lucinda too, or she uses the other guy now?
PB: I know he's not working with Lucinda right now.
PM: That's Pettibone.
PB: Yeah, Doug Pettibone.
PM: What do you like to do when you're off the road?
PB: Hmm...I like playing guitar.
[laughter]
PM: See how you are.
PB: I do. I spend a lot of time doing that.
PM: It's beautiful to hear that, because I have some player friends, of course, in a town like this, and a lot of people, especially as they get older say, "No, my guitar sits in the corner when I get home. I'm tired of playing it all the time when I'm working. I just want to fish when I come home," or, "I want to bowl," or whatever. So I like hearing that. "What do I do? I play my guitar."
PB: I think maybe because I came to that part of the music late it's still a mystery to me, so I love the mystery of it.
PM: I remember you had a beautiful little guitar. Was that an old Gibson?
PB: I'm trying to think what I--oh, I did. I think I was playing that J-45 when I was down there.
PM: Yeah. That was my first serious guitar, a J-45. God, they're great. What are you playing now?
PB: I have a 1970 Guild that I use as my road guitar. It's a really great guitar and really solid.
PM: The old Guilds are fabulous. A lot of people don't know how great the old Guilds are. The new ones, I don't know. It's like they barely resemble the old Guilds. So how big is the Guild?
PB: It's a dreadnought. continue
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