April 20, 2026

From Buddy Guy to Foghat: Livin' Loud with Scott Holt

Scott Holt, the lead vocalist and guitarist of the legendary band Foghat, joins us ahead of the band’s May 2, 7:00 PM show at the Family Arena in St. Charles on the “Twang and Bang 2026” tour. With a rich backstory that includes a decade touring with blues icon Buddy Guy, Scott shares insights on what it means to live "loud" and how music can cleanse the soul from everyday grime. We chat about the delicate balance of honoring a band's legacy while injecting personal flair into performances, all while keeping audiences entertained and engaged. Plus, Scott's got some candid advice for aspiring musicians! So, grab your headphones and get ready for some good tunes and even better stories as we tune into Scott's journey in the music biz.

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Our conversation flows like a smooth blues riff as Scott Holt dives into the core of his musical journey. He isn’t just a guitarist; he’s a storyteller, weaving tales of his experiences with legends like Buddy Guy and the camaraderie he shares with his bandmates in Foghat. It's refreshing to hear how he transitioned from a young musician to a seasoned performer, and his insights into the music industry are as enlightening as they are entertaining. Scott's commitment to his craft is evident—his practice regimen was nothing short of intense, and he reflects on how that dedication shaped his artistry.

Scott's philosophy of 'Loud is Good' resonates throughout the episode, symbolizing a life lived without reservations. He passionately recounts how music serves as a balm for the soul, a necessary escape from the daily grind. His anecdotes are peppered with humor and sincerity, making it clear that he values connection over everything else. As he prepares for upcoming performances, you can feel the excitement beneath the surface, showcasing the joy of creating and sharing music with others.

The camaraderie he shares with Foghat is unmistakable, emphasizing that they’re not just a band but a family that thrives on mutual respect and shared passion. One of the highlights of our chat is when Scott discusses the balance between honoring the legacy of Foghat while infusing the music with his unique style. It’s a delicate dance, and he navigates it with grace, ensuring that every performance remains true to the band's roots while still allowing his personality to shine. This blend of respect and creativity is what keeps the music alive and relevant. So whether you’re a long-time fan or new to Foghat's sound, Scott’s enthusiasm is infectious, leaving us all eager for the next chapter in this legendary band's story.

[00:00] Meet Scott Holt

[01:48] Loud Is Good

[02:45] Hendrix Spark

[04:30] Practice Obsession

[06:07] Lessons From Buddy

[08:03] Blues Roots

[09:47] Going Solo

[11:00] Winning Crowds

[13:26] Joining Foghat

[15:33] Carrying The Legacy

[16:16] Honoring the Legacy

[17:34] Why Foghat Endures

[18:42] Tour Life and Band Chemistry

[20:13] Home Base in Nashville

[23:07] Advice for Young Musicians

[26:22] Driving On Song Origins

[27:36] Tour Plug and Farewell

[29:48] Outro and Closing Credits

Takeaways:

  • Scott Holt shares his journey from practicing guitar 10-12 hours a day to touring with legends, emphasizing dedication and passion for music.
  • He discusses the importance of living life 'loud', encouraging listeners to express love and joy without hesitation.
  • The podcast highlights the significance of music in our lives, stating it washes away the dust of everyday life, providing a spiritual cleanse.
  • Holt emphasizes that while talent is crucial, the real challenge lies in connecting with an audience and being an entertainer on stage.
  • He reflects on the sacrifices required for success in music, suggesting that it's not for the faint of heart but rewarding for those truly passionate.
  • Listeners are encouraged to seek their unique voice in music while respecting the legacy of previous artists, a balance that Scott navigates in his role with Foghat.

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00:00 - Untitled

00:13 - Introduction to Scott Holt and His Musical Journey

02:48 - The Journey of a Musician: From Discovery to Performance

11:09 - The Art of Entertainment

15:54 - The Legacy of Foghat

23:19 - Entering the Music Business

27:38 - The Journey of Fog Hat

Arnold

Even with a musical career and band of his own.Our guest, the tall tattoo Tennessean, who toured for 10 years with Bluesman Buddy Guy, was asked to join the legendary band Fog Hat, in which he is the lead vocalist and guitarist. Scott Holt's our guest and we're going to talk to him on St. Louis in Tune.Welcome to St. Louis and tunic and thank you for joining us for fresh perspectives on issues and events with experts, community leaders and everyday people who make a difference in shaping our society and world. I'm Arnold Stricker along with co host Mark Langston. Greetings to you this morning, sir.

Mark

Howdy.

Scott

Good morning to you guys.

Arnold

That's our guest, Scott. He's anxiously waiting for us to get done with our banter here. Folks, we're glad that you joined us today.We want to thank our sponsor Better Rate Mortgage for their support of the show. You can listen to previous shows@stlintune.com where you can follow us and even leave a review.And our quickly our thought to ponder, Scott, because we always do this before the show, it helps us get our focus a little bit on life.

Mark

Yeah, good luck with that.

Arnold

This one, this one relates to what we all, what we're doing today. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.And Scott, I know that is something that you talk about that what music is when you talk about loud is good, you're talking about this spiritual loudness, this intensity. And we want to welcome you, Mark. And I want to welcome you, Scott Holt, to St. Louis in tune.

Scott

Thank you for having me. That's an incredibly poetic introduction. I don't know what to do with it.

Arnold

Tell us about this Loud is good that you have this saying, this philosophy of yours. What is explain that. A little bit more than what I did.

Scott

I just think that life, we only get one shot at this. There's no rewind button. There's no do overs for it. So you're pretty much we're making it up as we go along. We all are.And your opportunity is to live a life loud, be out there, tell people you love them and compliment people and brag on them when they do something cool and tell people about the music you like and the movies you've seen and the food you've eaten. Try to squeeze as much out of this existence as you can because like I said, we're only getting one shot at it.

Arnold

And the reason we're having you on today is fog. Hat is Going to be performing in St. Charles at the Family arena on May 2nd at 7pm it's the 55 year old. You guys have been around 55 years.It's the Twang and Bang 2026 tour. And I'll give more information about that. But Scott, how did you get started playing guitar? That's an interesting story.When you went from piano to guitar and then it seemed like it was just hovering around until you met someone very important in your life.

Scott

Yeah, I was. No disrespect to my piano teacher, but that was not a happy experiment.

Mark

They never, they never are.

Scott

I had a piano teacher in my life. It just wasn't on my radar when I was 19 for the very first time.And you have to understand, this is before the Internet and before the early stages of mtv. So you weren't really. Jimi Hendrix was not getting played a lot in my orbit and I heard him for the first time.I bought a cassette just on a whim, and it changed my life. He was doing everything that resonated within my body and it just. It was the most profound experience I'd ever had.So I rushed home and told my parents I needed a guitar and I wanted to learn how to play it. And God bless them, they made that happen and I took off. And about a year later, my dad set it up for me to meet Buddy Guy.He was on tour and we went to one of his shows and. And I went to his hotel the next day and he gave me a guitar lesson. And we stayed in touch and became friends.And about a year after that, he hired me to play in his band. And I spent 10 years on the road with him, traveling the world and everything just went from there.

Arnold

Now that sounds to the everyday ear, that sounds so simple and wow, okay, that's cool.

Scott

But all you gotta do is meet a legend.

Arnold

Yeah, meet a legend. And then in a year later, you're playing in his band for 10 years. That doesn't happen by happenstance. You were, you were very energetic.And how much did you practice in between those times? You probably had the guitar on your. On your knee and your hand on 12, 14 hours a day.

Scott

Yeah, to this day I play a lot, but when I was starting out, it was a solid 10 to 12 hours a day. I didn't do anything else. I didn't have a girlfriend and go anywhere. And I just stayed in my room and just played my guitar until I went to sleep.And when I woke up, there was my guitar and here we go again. And because it was just. It was this beautiful thing that just every day, it was unlocking stuff, and I was finding new things.All these songs were coming out of my guitar, and it was just amazing to me. And the more you practice at it, the better you get. So it just. And the better you get, the more you want to play. So it was just a.It was the first thing that I found that I genuinely took to and wanted to do. And it gave me happiness, and it still does. If I'm in a bad mood, I can pick up a guitar, and in five minutes, I'm completely heat.

Arnold

Music does that.

Scott

Yeah.

Arnold

Kind of. Like I said at the beginning of the show, it washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.

Mark

I can't imagine the calluses you've got on your fingertips.

Scott

They're not as bad as they used to be, because as you get older, life takes over, and you get married and you have kids, and now the yard's got to be mowed and the bills have to be paid, and all of a sudden, your guitar is not getting played as much as it used to. But when I'm on the road, it's in my hands all the time. When I'm at the house, it's right there by the couch, so I'm. I've got it close by, but it.It's just an old friend now.

Mark

That's really neat. That's really cool. I think that's pretty cool. Yeah.

Arnold

What are some of the lessons, the things that you really hold dear to you that you learned from Buddy?

Mark

Guy.

Scott

Good source of antibiotics is important now.

Mark

Kidding me.

Scott

I learned. It's funny, because I learned everything from Buddy, literally. I went on the road with him. I'd never been away from home. I'd never traveled.Our first gig was in Canada. Two weeks later, we were in Brazil.And so I was learning how to navigate in a foreign country and how to say please and thank you in a bunch of different languages, because that's for anybody that wants to travel. That's the first thing you need to learn, is how to say please and thank you.That'll get you a lot when you go to another country, even if you can't speak their language. But he taught me how to perform on stage, of course, and how to play the guitar.I watched him every night, and we would sit in the dressing room before the show, and I would ask him, how did you do this? Or how does John Lee Hooker play this part? And he would show me stuff, and. But he also taught me how to Order in a Chinese restaurant.So I learned that from him. And just to this day, there are things that I don't even know why I do them.And then I'll think about, oh, I learned this from Buddy, that's why I do this. And he's just. He's a. One of my dearest friends. I still talk to him. We don't see as much of each other as we used to. And I really miss.The thing I miss the most about Buddy is not necessarily playing in his band. It was the times off stage when we were every day, when we were on the road.And that's when I really got to hear the stories and talk to him about all these blues artists and all the stuff that he'd done. And that's the things that I treasure most.

Mark

Wow, A mentor. I would say a major mentor to you.

Scott

Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.

Mark

Wow. When did you stop touring or being with Buddy actively?

Scott

I left Buddy in 2000. I was with him from 1989 until 2000.

Mark

That's a pretty good run. That's a good run there.

Scott

Yeah. Yeah, I managed to Lay Low for 10 years.

Mark

And the blues that he does, the jazz stuff, how does that connect to rock?

Scott

The thing about blues is in everything. Their blues is in the DNA of every American music form that you listen to. You can trace everything back to the blues and being with Buddy.When I got in the band, I thought I was just listening to only blues. I was a hardcore. All I wanted to listen to was Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf and that was it.And I got in the band thinking, I'm going to be around all these like minded individuals. Nobody else in the band was listening to the blues because they were playing it.They were listening to Earth, London Fire and Stevie Wonder and African music and all kinds of different jazz and Miles Davis and John Coltrane. So it was a. That was a great education for me because it allowed me to branch out and listen to some other things, but also was hearing similarities.You listen to Miles Davis and you can hear the blues in his playing. You listen to all kinds of music and it comes from the blues. So it's one of the foundations of American music.

Arnold

So when you stopped working with him, is that when you started like freelancing? What I would say, because I knew you played with B.B.King, you played with Lee Hooker, Otis Rush, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, and it goes on and on.

Mark

Unbelievable.

Arnold

You've appeared on all the Tonight show, all the late night shows, etc, etc, and is that when your band was together or when you were freelancing or what was that?

Scott

A lot of that was going on when I was a Buddy, because being with him, I had access to every artist you want to mention, his contemporaries and his peers. We were always doing shows with him. So I was getting to literally sit at the feet of B.B. King and listen to him and Buddy talk about life. And.And so I met a lot of those guys through that. After I left Buddy, I put together a band and made seven records on my own and toured and did that. And it's funny, that's when I was starving.My first 10 years with Buddy was like, really crazy successful. And then I spent the next 10 or 15 scuffling, running around the country trying to figure out how to make it work.

Mark

What was the name of that band? What was the name of that band?

Scott

I just called it Scott Hall.

Mark

Oh, okay.

Scott

They couldn't fire me if it was Band After Me.

Mark

Yeah.

Scott

And it was. That was a valuable part of my education too, because being with Buddy, I had the opportunity to live under that umbrella. And you're.You walk on a stage with Buddy Guy and you're halfway there. You don't really have to do that much heavy lifting. You put your name on the marquee or on the T shirt and walk out on stage.And now you've got to convince a room full of people that don't know who you are, why they should care. And that's a different challenge. And I had to learn that and learn how to get the audience on my side. And it was.That was a valuable part of my education as far as being an entertainer, because you can't just.I don't care how good of a guitar player you are, how good of a musician you are, there's very few musicians that can just walk out there and play and they have everybody drawn in. You've got to. You've got to sell it.

Arnold

So as part of that following that up, Scott, how did you do that? How did you draw those audiences to your band's group? When you guys were performing and touring around, what did you do?

Scott

I just tried to put on the most high energy show I could and make people laugh and make them have a good time. Because ultimately, when somebody spends the money to go out and see a show, they want you to succeed. They want it to be fun.They want to enjoy themselves. They're not coming to be convinced necessarily. They're coming to have a good time. And that's. And your job is to make them have a good time.You just you do whatever it takes. I've done some ridiculous things to entertain a crowd. I'm terrible about that. My wife will confirm that for you.I'll do anything to get some attention. It's not hard for me to think up something, though. They'll make people go, well, that's an.

Arnold

Interesting point because I don't think a lot of people think about when they see a band player, a musician play, they think, oh, there's the musician. But you're talking about the fine line between being a musician, a guitarist, a band leader and an entertainer.And yet you cross back and forth between both. But the audience, they might just see, hey, I went to this concert last night and I saw Scott Holt in his band. Man, it was great.

Scott

If you want to be a great musician, if you want to be a great guitar player, you can sit on your couch and you can practice 14 hours a day and you can be a great guitar player. And if that's what you want to do, then stay on your couch and do that.If you want to be a great entertainer, you got to get an audience and you got to get in front of people. And it helps if you can. If you're good at your instrument. You know, that certainly helps.Nobody wants to hear a terrible guitar player, even if he's funny. But you have to work both sides of the coin. And that's. I learned that from Buddy. Buddy would.He could do more on the guitar with a drumstick than a lot of other guitar players I've seen. And it was magic watching him. He could smile and it would light up the room. And that's something that I'm still trying to figure out.But that was a lesson to learn from him, that he was just such a riveting entertainer that you just couldn't, you couldn't not have a good time watching Buddy play. You still can't.

Arnold

What an excellent point. This is Arnold Stricker with Mark Langston of St. Louis in Tomb. We're talking to Scott Holt. He's a member of Fog Hat.He is the lead singer and guitarist.They're going to be performing at the Family arena in St. Charles on Saturday, May 2nd at 7:00pm you can go to Ticketmaster to find more tickets out about that. Also want to give you the fog hat sites. Foghat.com Foghat.com Scott, the how did you get to know Roger Earl and Brian Bassett?We had Brian on a couple of years ago when the band came through town and had a great time with him. How did you Guys link together.

Scott

I met Roger back in 2014. A mutual friend of ours introduced us and they were working on a record called under the Influence.It didn't have a name yet but they were working on the songs for that record. And I went down to their studio in Florida and was co writing some songs with them and helping them put the record together and we just hit it off.Roger's just. He's one of my best friends. He's just a beautiful too. And Rodney is too. Everybody in this organization's amazing. Rodney and I just really clicked.We both had similar interest in music and just had a similar attitude in life and art and we just. We just got along and we. We were supposed to write three songs for the album. We ended up writing 17.

Mark

Wow.

Scott

So we put together another band called Earl and the Agitators and we made a record of that and put that out so you can get that on the Fog Hat site too. But we then we tried to figure out how to let that band tour in conjunction with Fog Hat and then it was like it was just me and the.And basically it was me replacing the lead singer of Fog Hat for a set of Earl and the Agitator songs and. But the rest of the band was having to play an opening set and the full show after. So that wasn't really working.So we had to shell that and I went back down to. We just kept writing stuff and kept working together and working on new music. And I went down to help them work on their follow up record.And Charlie Hinn, their former lead singer decided to retire. While we were working on the records.Roger asked me if I wanted to join the band and I didn't hesitate to say yes because I love these guys and getting to play with them is a real gift for me. We started. I had to learn the Fog Hat set and it was a rough way to go. When I started.They were a little bit scared that they might have made the wrong choice. But I tried really hard and they let me figure it out and I'm still learning.I've been in the band five years now and I'm still trying to figure it out. But they're gracious and let me bump my head and keep going.

Arnold

Well why do you say that? I'm curious about that because you're obviously not going to be singing the song.Any of the songs like they were originally done or like the previous lead vocalist has done. Was it. I know you. You bring your own style to the group which is actually invigorates A little bit. What was the thing that.The struggle that you were just talking about?

Scott

When you step into a band with a 50 year history and you'd have to be conscious of the fact that there's a historical legacy component to a situation like this.We're doing songs like Slow Ride and I just want to make love to you the way Dave and Rod and Roger and Tony Stevens and later on Craig McGregor arranged them. And there's a part where you have to be respectful of that history.And then at the same time, like you were saying, I'm me, so I have to bring my thing into it. But there has to be a balance to that. Nobody wants to hear a reggae version of Slow Ride Ride.So you can't get too cute with how you approach the music. But at the same time, I don't pretend to be Dave. I don't. I don't want to be Dave.If Dave were still alive, he would be in the band and I would be happy that he was in the band and still around. But it's. It's my responsibility to, to carry on that legacy, but try to do it in a way that, that justifies me being in the band.And I took that very seriously. When they gave me the opportunity. I didn't take it lightly and I still don't.When we go on stage every night, I remember the fact that I'm standing in for Lonesome Dave favorite and my job is to be equal parts me and a respecter of his legacy.

Arnold

That's a great answer. Oh yeah, that is a great answer.I would say, Scott, it's a very humble answer because we hear on other interviews and you can see on TV where people think they're all that and a bag of chips and they go, they push the limits and maybe they end up doing reg, as you would say, Reggae Slow Ride just because that's what they want to do rather than respect the. The band in its 55 years. Speaking of that, what is it about Fog Hat that just keeps the fire burning and going?

Scott

The music. The music, the catalog of music that they made and are still making.And that's another key thing about this band is if all we did was go on stage and play Slow Ride and play stuff from the catalog and that. That's one kind of approach. But we're a band and we're all active musicians and Roger is.He and I and Brian and Rodney are constantly writing new material and recording new songs. We put out a record two years ago that debuted at number one on the Billboard chart and stayed there for 39 weeks.And we're working on a follow up to that now. Wow. And so we continue to make new music. And so that. That's an active band.Some of the members of the band have passed on and that's just a fact of life. But the band remains intact because we're building off a foundation that they created and we're still doing it.

Arnold

And the other two guys besides Roger, outstanding musicians in their own right and really active in what's going on in a huge part of making the success of Fog Hat. Now on this tour, you guys, how does that work out? I know you're going to be in St. Louis, as I mentioned on. On May 2nd, but what's your.You get in the bus and go. Do you go by car? Do you go by plane? And what's. How's that story working?

Scott

We usually fly. We'll probably fly in to St. Louis and come to St. Charles for that. Or I don't know what town we'll fly into, but we'll fly in.And we usually come in the day before. And routinely what we do is we'll fly into town the day before. We all go out to dinner at night and hang out.And if we haven't seen each other in a week or so, we're catching up what you've been doing and all that stuff. But it's really like a family and we're glad to see each other.I've been in situations in bands where you get to the hotel and everybody disappears and you don't see them until showtime. Right. This band's not like that. We're in each other's pocket all the time. And I get up in the morning, text Rodney, the bass player.We go get coffee and hang out. And it's just a really warm connection that I have with all these guys. And it translates to the stage.When you see us on stage, we're having more fun than the audience, I guarantee you. And. And that's by design.You don't see four guys up there with their heads down just trying to slug it out and get through this situation so they can get a paycheck and go home. We're. We live for that two hours that we're on the stage. And that's when we get maximum joy and maximum happiness.And that's what we're trying to reflect back to the audience.

Arnold

That is so refreshing.

Mark

It is. It's great to hear. Can I ask, at the top of the show, I think Arnold called you the Tall, tattooed.

Arnold

Tall, tattooed. Tennesseean.

Mark

Tennesseean, yeah. Are you living in Tennessee? Where do you live now?

Scott

I'm actually only 5 4, and I've never been to Tennessee in my life, and I don't have any tattoos, so I don't know what he's talking about. I live just outside of Nashville and have for a long time, all my life.I was born and raised in Tennessee, and we moved around a little bit when I was a very small child. But once I started going to school, we've lived in Tennessee ever since. I met my wife here.We had our daughter here, and she's grown into an amazing young woman. And this is. I love the world. I love traveling and I love seeing other places and.But I don't think I'll ever seriously think about living anywhere else because I just love this area.

Mark

Scott I was in country music for about 20 years, and I gotta tell you, I loved going to Nashville. I don't know, I'm sure you've done a lot of work in Nashville. The musicians and just the whole scene in Nashville is pretty unbelievable.How much have you plugged into that?

Scott

I mean, obviously I've played in Nashville quite a bit through the years because it's right here and there is a vibrant music scene and there's. There's sort of two scenes. There's the touristy country scene that.That the people that come to town for a weekend, they go to low abroad and they go to Kid Rock's bar, or right, one of the other country artist bars, and they're hearing that type of music. But there's. Man, there's puff, there's rock, there's all jazz, there's all kinds of music going on in Nashville and just killer, amazing musicians.Just the only town I think that's probably got better musicians is New Orleans. And they just. You can put a band together in 10 minutes, just get on the phone and call a couple of people and boom, you got a band together.So it's a really. If you're a musician, it's a good place to be.

Mark

Yeah. Yeah. I always, always loved Nashville. Painter's Alley. I don't know if that's even around anymore. Yeah, I remember there.

Scott

I've played in that. I played there a bunch of times. A place called Bourbon Street. There's a cool bar there, and it's. It's a great town.It's a lot different now than it used to be. I'm. I've reached an age where I start. I catch myself sounding like an old man. In my day, but it. It really has changed a lot. It's.These days you can play Count the cranes because you pull into town and they're building skyscrapers every five feet. Condos and apartments and all this stuff.

Mark

Dog on it.

Scott

Yeah, that's progress. That's what keeps it alive and vibrant.

Mark

So the big, tall, tattooed Tennessee and. Okay, I got it.

Scott

Right.

Mark

Okay. And you're five foot two. Okay. All right.

Arnold

Yeah.

Scott

Five four in heel.

Mark

Okay.

Scott

Good boots.

Arnold

You've given a lot of advice to. My question is going to relate to somebody who's listening, who's maybe 12 teenager years, wanting to get into the scene. Wanting maybe.Yeah, I want to do that. I heard this guy play. And you've given a lot of advice.In our conversation today, any more advice you would give to somebody who wants to get into the business and do this professionally?

Scott

I would say that if there's anything else that you're interested in, do that. If you. The only reason I would get into the music business is if you absolutely have to. If it's the only thing that satisfies your soul.Because the amount of success that you will have in this business is directly correlated to the amount of sacrifice. And most people aren't willing to give up what you have to give up to reach any modicum of success in this business.It's truly an unforgiving pathway. You have to give things up. You have to do without some things that a lot of people wouldn't even consider. And I'm sure that's true of anything.If you really. If you strive for excellence in any field, you know you're gonna have to give something up. But for some reason, the music business seems like it's.You're away from home, you're away from your family in the early stages, like I was telling you, I was practicing 14 hours a day. I wasn't going to barbecues with my friends or going to the skating rink or the movies or anything. I was at home playing my guitar.That was a lot of sacrifice. You know, I wasn't getting girlfriends and doing that stuff. I was playing my guitar. And it just. It's.There's a level of sacrifice that you have to give up stuff. And most people aren't willing to do that, or they don't, or they think they are until they get into it, and then they go, no, I can't do this.So I would say, for a young person, if you have to do this, it's the best job in the world. If you are interested in anything else do that. Because this is not. If you. If this is going to be your plan A and you've got a plan B, do plan B.

Arnold

That's. That's excellent advice from somebody who's been there, and I appreciate your honesty with that.

Mark

Yeah, Yeah.

Scott

I don't want any more guitar players anyway.

Mark

I don't need that.

Scott

There you go. But seriously, it's. It's just a gig that you really have to. You really have to want it, and the reward is in the music. That's the thing.I've been doing this for over 30 years, and I've been financially successful maybe four of those years. There's been a lot of times when you come home with less money than you went out with, and there's a lot of times when you just.You're scuffling and somebody calls you up and says, hey, can you come play in this guy's backyard for 100 bucks? And you say yes, because you want the 100 bucks. There's a lot of.That goes on, and I know a lot of great musicians who have side hustles doing Door Dash and stuff like that. There's no shame in that because you got to make your living. You got to get your thing out. But it's not a business that. That will take care of you.You have to nurture it. I'm sounding dark about music.

Arnold

You've been given some really excellent advice.

Mark

I've got one. When. Final question for me, anyway, you guys did a song called Driving On. I can even play a little bit of it.It sounds a little, to me like a ZZ Top Lange song.

Scott

Yeah. Yeah.And if you follow that thread backwards, you go from ZZ Top backwards, you find John Lee Hooker, and you go back past John Lee Hooker, and you find in Slim Harpo and guys like Robert Johnson and Fun House that. That type of riff is. Has been around probably since Adam and Eve.

Mark

Wow.

Scott

But it's. We got that song from Kim Simmons.He wrote four songs for us for that record, and he just had demos of the songs, and she passed away before we had a chance to get him to play on it. But we listened to the demo, and then Roger and I sat there and looked at each other, and we said, let's do Slim Harpo and John Lee Hooker.That's what the song needs. And we started messing with it, and that's what we came up with. Yeah. ZZ Top definitely took that idea with lagrange and had a tremendous hit with.

Mark

Yeah, it sounds. You guys did. You did A great job with it. What you guys turned out with Driving. Driving on is really good.

Arnold

Yeah, it's a good. It's a good driving song.

Mark

Yeah, we'll play it here. Yeah, we'll play the whole thing. Yeah.

Arnold

Anyway, our guest has been Scott Holt from. He's the lead singer and guitarist for Fog Hat. Scott, it's been great talking to you.And folks, if you want to see Scott and the rest of the band, Saturday, May 2, 7pm at the Family arena in St. Charles, you can go to Ticketmaster for tickets. Scott, you have a great day, sir. We appreciate your time and look forward to seeing you.

Scott

Thank you guys very much.

Mark

Scott, thanks a bunch. It's been a real pleasure talking with you and spending some time with you. We appreciate it.

Scott

Thank you all, man.

Arnold

Bye bye.

Scott

Have a good one.

Arnold

You too. The Fog hat official website, foghat.com foghat.com you can see a couple things that they've got going on, Mark.They're doing a documentary and they have a book in production and it's like the story of Fog Hat is still being written and you can become a part of it. So they ask people out there if they had memorabilia, etc stories and things like that. 55 Years.

Mark

So I was 15 when they started. That's all I want to say. Wow. It's a long time ago.55 Years and people are still enjoying it young and people are still getting turned on to it and just. Yeah, there's something about this great point.

Arnold

He made because we're still writing music and still putting out albums.

Mark

Yeah. Yeah.

Arnold

A lot of times it's just a rehash of everything that was done, like he was saying. And it's great to hear new music from a band that's been around a while.

Mark

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Foghead. Wow.

Arnold

Let's listen to this as we go out.

Scott

All right.

Music

She'll be waiting for me to pull I'll be so happy so let loving.

Scott

Begin.

Music

Having a way Couldn't get home Now I'm ready Been too long gone and I'm drown and I gotta be strong and it won't be long. Driving on.

Arnold

That's all for this hour, folks. We thank you for listening.If you've enjoyed this episode, you can listen to additional shows@stluntune.com where you can follow us and leave a review. Want to thank Bob Berthiselle for our theme music, our sponsor, Better Rate Mortgage, our guest Scott Holt from Fog Hat and co host Mark Langston.We thank you for being a part of our community of curious minds. St. Louis in tune is a production of Motif Media Group and the US Radio Network.Remember to keep seeking, keep learning, walk worthy and let your light shine for St. Lucian. June I'm Arnold Stricker.

Music

Waiting for me Come. I am back.

Arnold

Yes.

Music

Can only out speeding up like Anyway, I'm driving on and I gotta be strong it won't be long if I'm driving on I'm driving on But I gotta be strong and it won't be me Ram drowning.

Scott

Sa.