![]() Josh Shilling: I want you to send me that quote in an e mail so I can show it to my girlfriend. Shawna Hansen Ortega (Songfacts): First thing I have to ask you is, does it get tiring always being so perfect? And on this EP, he captures it raw, the way nature intended. ![]() Few singers can perform the songs they wrote with anything approaching the unapologetically anguished notes that are Josh Shilling's voice. The Mountain Heart singer/songwriter and session musician has recently released his first solo EP, a too-short (in our opinion) offering of his exceptional talents. It's fun to see his discomfiture, because he is otherwise so flawless. ![]() "I got interested in the banjo when i first heard Flatt & Scruggs in 1950." -J."When I get a question like, 'Which one of these songs meant the most to you?' I'm like, I didn't prepare for that one, I don't know what to say." This is Josh Shilling, consummate professional, stumbling over his own responses. "I met Jimmy Martin one time and that was enough!" -Mike Lilly No body else can do that, but ole Harley."-Mike Lilly ![]() "When then man sang, he spoke to your soul. "YOU KIDDING ME! Ive been trying to tune this flippin thing for 45 years and havent got there yet. Wendy Miller told Mike his banjo was out of tune on stage during their set. "Wendy quit playing that crap, hell i can make better music with a donkey and a porcupine"-Mike Lilly ![]() Wendy Miller was backstage playing some "greek mandolin" and mike said: He's probaly the wildest old guy i know, crazier than hell! Im proud to call him a friend. Ive known Mike Lilly for 2 years and i laugh my rear off all the time with what he had to say, most of them i cant post. "Dont you dare wipe my D*** banjo off, dirt makes em sound better." -Dave Evans I heard Dave tell this to his fiddle player once. ![]()
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