The last time I was in Nashville was in the eighties’, I could not believe how boring and corporate the music was then [ Pam Tillis and barbie dolls ]. Nashville needed a wake up call, now it looks like the music culture of the place has been replaced by a right wing sport’s culture thing! During that time I met two people who were stand outs, very talented and very nice. Monique Moman and Danny Tate were the only two people that I could relate to outside of my work, which is still making underground music. Danny Tate helped me by being too tall, too mean to quit, too soon to tell, really funny, a gentleman, honest; he was a young man with the world at his feet. Monique Moman was a lady and an individual who inspired me and gave me a hope that one day Nashville would get back to producing great main stream music again. The reason I am directing my attention to long ago experiences in Nashville with great people is because I have just read the article written by Brantley Hargrove, Jan.21-27/vol.23/no.50, that appeared in the Nashville Scene about Danny Tate. The one aspect of Danny Tate’s personality that jumps off the page in this article is Danny Tate’s honesty about himself and that he has accumulated a type of sage wisdom that serves him well. The last time I saw Danny was in Nashville in the nineteen eighties’ and my worries for him then were about the corporate pretenders like Steve Davis and the other jerks that were pushing and pulling at him would contaminate his music. It hasn’t, Danny is a man of music, a man of legend and I believe that Danny Tate will continue on his musical journey, become a music icon for Nashville and above all maintain! If you ever met Danny you love the guy, hey the last time we talked he called me a ” washed up R and B guitar player ” alright, I did do twenty days on the stage at the Apollo Theater in N.Y.C. and I still sleep on the couch or the floor or in my car when I do my music in a studio. The brutal truth is what saves and Danny Tate still says it! My bets, my support and my prayer are all in support for Danny Tate: a true Nash/Villian : nobody said rock’n'roll was for angels and when a rocker applies his pain and the experiences of a hard life, it gives to his music, WATCH OUT because there is a train ‘a comin’  and that train is called American Music! GOD BLESS YOU DANNY TATE !