#939 - Beth McKee

The Beth McKee Interview is featured on The Paul Leslie Hour.

Are you here? If you’re here, I hope you’ll join in our excitement. Now, The Paul Leslie Hour is a place where we bring you interviews with interesting and creative people. This interview with singer-songwriter and recording artist Beth McKee is one that your host Paul has a lot of fondness for. It originally broadcast on the radio in January of 2010. It’s not been heard since then.

So, to understand our guest Beth McKee you have to go back a bit. She toured with harmonica legend Greg “Fingers” Taylor in a band called “The Lady Fingers Revue,” and they were the opening act for Jimmy Buffett. Not long after that, Beth joined the all-female Bayou band “Evangeline,” which was signed to Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Records imprint in the 1990s. What a great band they were! 

A very interesting tidbit, Jimmy Buffett suggested that Beth McKee would be well suited to perform a Bobby Charles song during the Evangeline live shows. Maybe Jimmy was onto something. It was kind of fateful. Fast-forwarding to 2009, Beth McKee released “I’m that Way”featuring all songs written by the late great Bobby Charles. 

Now, some of you may know the name Bobby Charles. A Cajun man, Bobby was born in Louisiana and wrote some of the all-time classics “See You Later, Alligator,” “Walking to New Orleans,” and “I Don’t Know Why, But I Do.” Beth McKee covered all of these songs and more. The Bobby Charles songbook was excellently interpreted by Beth McKee.

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And with that, I think this interview with Beth McKee best be seeing the light of day once more. We thank you for listening. Let us know what you think.