Dayton was a big fan of Elvis growing up. Just before his tour started in early November, Dayton played Elvis Presley songs with Glenn Danzig in Hollywood on Halloween. There's something about doing a book thing on Colfax that somehow relates to Kerouac. “We haven't been on tour in twenty months,” Dayton says, “and we're on tour right now, and I've been thinking about On the Road incessantly. When Dayton knocked on the studio door, Johnny Cash greeted him.
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The next day, Dayton got a call from country icon Waylon Jennings, who saw Dayton on TV the night before and invited him to down to Woodland Studio to record.
On one of his family’s many trips to Colorado to escape the Texas summer - what he calls the “devil’s armpit” - Dayton remembers going to the Little Bear in Evergreen, where Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson were playing songs to about eighteen people in the bar.Ī few decades later, in 1996, Dayton got to meet Kristofferson during a taping of the Nashville television show Crook & Chase. As Dayton describes in Beaumonster, the two later shared a joint on the way to a private late-night tour of the Gibson guitar factory. “Now when we go back and play Colorado, I just always give them that extra thing that I can find in me on stage,” Dayton says.
He says he is glad to be back in the state where his guitar obsession began. He'll play Globe Hall on Friday, December 3, and Saturday, December 4, and the Soiled Dove on Sunday, December 5, with Jim Dalton & Amigos.ĭayton was in Colorado about a month ago riding vintage motorcycles on Mount Evans and Pikes Peak with a group of people. Cleveland taught him the D, G and A chords as well as the “Three Heys” – Hank Williams’s “Hey Good Lookin,’" Neil Young’s “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)” and “Hey Joe,” made famous by Jimi Hendrix.ĭayton, a longtime resident of Austin who grew up in Beaumont, Texas, is currently on tour to promote Beaumonster and its accompanying ten-song soundtrack. The soundtrack, also titled Beaumonster, includes songs written by musicians found in the book, such as X’s “Burning House of Love,” Willie Nelson’s "Pretend I Never Happened," Kinky Friedman’s “Wild Man From Borneo,” Doug Sahm’s “At the Crossroads,” Social Distortion’s “The Story of My Life” and more.ĭayton will read from Beaumonster and play a few songs at the Colfax Tattered Cover on Tuesday, November, 30. The musician writes in Beaumonster, his new memoir published by Hachette Books, that he was a teenager at a Boulder Holiday Inn when he met an older Black man named Granville Cleveland. Guitarist Jesse Dayton played on records by country legends Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, toured with the punk band X and raucous rock act Supersuckers, wrote songs for Rob Zombie's films and directed Malcom McDowell in his own horror movie, Zombex. But his career really got started during a family trip to Boulder, where he became hooked on guitar.
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