


When you have this type of dream you should know that such a dream could signify positive news that you are about to receive in your life. She listed all of these different country songs that reference "Fishing in the Dark" in the lyrics. This type of dream can indicate your confidence level, abundance, and prosperity. There was just an article that came out in Billboard Magazine, about how 27 years later, this song is still getting so much radio play, that if it was considered a current single, it would be No. He used to play it in the clubs, and his live act after he became famous. It's influenced all of these up and coming country acts or even people like Kenny Chesney. People talk about the song, but that record that the Dirt Band made, it so impressed so many people, including Garth Brooks, who has recorded and released it three times. he went, "Man, the Dirt Band, this is perfect for them." I was standing in the right place when they captured lightning in a bottle. Actually Josh and Wendy and I all lived in the same place over on 10th Avenue. Fishin in the Dark is a song written by Wendy Waldman and Jim Photoglo, and recorded by American country music group The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Back in the early days, we'd all get together, and Wendy and I would cook. But Josh Leo came from Los Angeles to Nashville at the same time Wendy and I did, and he had just gotten the job to produce the Dirt Band. They had actually cut a song of mine that Norbert Putnam produced on them, previously. We weren't trying to be like any other song.ĭid you know the Dirt Band in L.A.? How did they get the song? Who would have thunk it?Īnd the first thing I thought was, "I want to run away screaming, because I love my song." But she said, "No, fishing in the dark." We started messing around with it, and it just happened, you know? We did it for fun. It was a song called "You Can't Run Away From Your Heart." Then we got back together again, and she had just finished listening to "A Prairie Home Companion." She said, "Let's write a song about fishing."Īnd again, you two, writing a fishing song. I took both of them to Wendy, and we wrote the minor, bluesy one first, and it got cut by Terri Gibbs, Kathy Mattea, Patty Loveless and Lacy J. Both of them had that same chordal thing, but one of them had the minor mode and one had the major mode. One morning I woke up and I turned on my tape recorder, sat up and played these two pieces of music. I was experimenting with this one particular chording on the guitar that only played the first and fifth tones of the chord, so you could sing either a major or a minor over it. On this one particular visit, I was staying at Shoney's (Inn) over on Demonbreun.
