Interview With Chaz Sharp
I blame all of this on potatoes. In particular, those tiny, delicious potatoes sold by the Nufer’s at the Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings. Because of my devotion to these potatoes, my wife and I started to get to know Rusty and Sue Nufer, the hardworking couple responsible for these scrumptious tubers as well as a wide variety of equally delectable organic produce. So during one Saturday visit with the Nufer’s I learned that Sue has a son named Chaz Sharp who is a songwriter living in London, UK. Chaz fronts a band called The Red Fishes who have been recording this past year in different studios in both the UK and the US. One thing let to another, Sue told me that Chaz would be visiting this summer, and the next thing you know I was hooking up Chaz with a recordings studio here in town and also playing in an Arkansas edition of the Red Fishes featuring Michael Goodrich, Marcus Lowe, Chris Atwood, and Isaac Alexander. Before our second gig I recorded this quick Q&A with Chaz on a hand held recorder while driving from L Street Park to the White Water Tavern.
Ed note: Since this was recorded in a moving car, I thought I’d chop up the interview and post sections of it along the route we travelled to get to White Water Tavern. You can read this interview sequentially by clicking on the yellow Wayfaring note tags in the map. Each note tag corresponds roughly to a question I posed to Chaz. I fucked up the Wayfaring numbers so don’t pay them any mind.