A Conversation with Bruce Robison (continued)

PM: Well, we talked a little about Kelly. Tell me, please, how she's doing, and what the latest for her may be, career-wise.

BR: She's actually going in the studio in June. And she and I just had a similar thing. We had twins, and we had another kid, too.

PM: So that makes four, right?

BR: That's four kids. And so we both just took time off. And she's going in the studio in June. And I'm not exactly sure when that'll put her record out. But she's going to be getting back to work just like I am.

PM: How do you juggle that with the kids and all of that?

BR: Well, we do okay. We don't have regular jobs. I mean, golly, most of the people that we're around, they work 9:00 to 5:00 or something like that. And so it's not easy sometimes. I got home at 2:00 o'clock in the morning last night, and Kelly was like "Take the baby" at 6:30 this morning. [laughs]

PM: Ouch.

BR: And so I was resenting the hell out of that. So we're still figuring it out. But we'll work it out, and we're lucky that we have some leeway. We don't have to travel for weeks at a time. The most we ever do is three, four days in the row.

PM: Right. And so will you go out of Texas, too, for--

BR: I do, yeah. But we put them into these little bite-size pieces. We'll go into the Southeast and the Midwest, a little four, five-day trip.

PM: The Northeast, too, or not necessarily?

BR: Yeah. We hardly end up ever going west. We'll go--we'll play Philly, New York City, DC--what's that great club up near Connecticut? The Iron Horse.

PM: Oh, yeah.

BR: And so that'll be like a little four-day trek--and Boston, and then we'll do Nashville, Atlanta, Birmingham.

PM: Right. But you won't get out to San Francisco or something?

BR: Well, it's just too far. We're going to San Francisco in October for a festival. But I was telling the guys in the Transit War there in San Diego, Kelly and I, we never play, we never get finished east. I mean, we don't have enough time, and it's so much closer, and you can play every night. And man, you go west, and it takes you three days to get out there. Yeah, or you fly, and then even the gigs out there are way far between. So it's like, well, do we go west, or do we just take another trip east where you go and you play every night?

PM: You make the money and get home.

BR: Kind of, and you have more support, because we haven't been out there. So I hate it that that's the case, but it's just a long way.

PM: Yeah, there's just so many people in the northeast, you can get cities close together and tons of people.

BR: And I'm hoping that since we got that date--it's in Golden Gate Park, some real neat festival I've heard of, but I've never played before, in October. And so we'll string a few dates around there.

PM: Yeah, the Golden Gate Park shows are the greatest.

BR: Are they?

PM: I've seen many of them, and yeah, they're the greatest.

BR: Well, good. So I hope that that'll be a phase, that as the kids get older that we get to going many places. And that's the great thing about our careers, is we don't necessarily have to--the Mobile County Fair--I love Mobile, but I mean, it's more like Seattle, Chicago, New York, Boston, cities like that, mainly, which is a lot of fun, it really is.

PM: Yeah. So you're a busy guy. I want to ask you one more thing, though. Do you consider yourself a spiritual person in any way?

BR: Yeah. That's a tough question, but yeah, I suppose, more yes than no. I'm an agnostic, which I understand to mean that you don't know.

PM: And that's not mutually exclusive of being spiritual.

BR: Right, not at all. I've got kids now, and I don't know how you don't become spiritual after that experience. And my wife goes to church, and we take the kids to church, and so I'm just--I try to be open to everything.

PM: Well, it's great talking to you.

BR: It's been a lot of fun, thanks.

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