UA’s response was predictably tepid. “They said, ‘You’re fuckin’ crazy, we’ll never get it played. Country and western’s not even happenin’. ‘Womack continues. “I said, ‘Man, country and western music’s gonna be the biggest music and ya know why? It’s so true. It ain’t no sugar coatin’ it. The lyrics are there, the music’s simplicity. Country and western’s gonna take over.’ So they said, ‘What are you gonna call the album?’” Womack pauses and laughs. “I wanted to call the album Step Aside Charley Pride, Give Another Nigger A Try. The drugs were taking over.”
Womack continues, “They Said, ‘What? Aw fuck no, you’ll never come out with that.’ They kept tellin’ me that and I kept sayin’, ‘There’s room for another one.’ I rented these horses, went out to the stables and said I was goin’ through with it. So they called Columbia and said, ‘Hey, you want this guy?’” So they sold thecontract to Columbia. But when I got to Columbia, they did not know me. And the business was changin’ then. I cut some stuff for them, but they thought I was just a guy who’d flipped out. They wouldn’t take me serious on anything I did.”
