Is the traveling the hardest part with music? CF: Plenty of work, plenty of road. If you are 22 years
old, it’s not so bad, but I was 40 at the time, and it was noticeably a chore for me. And we were living in Portland, Oregon at the time.
How did you decide on Pinehurst? CF: We were actually
living in Nashville (Tennessee) then, and my wife was working for Vanderbilt. Then 9/11 happened, and we thought we should get into a smaller community. We came here and got the kids into school, so we have been here 17 years now. What about North Carolina appeals to you the most? CF: We have a lot of
friends here, but I guess the weather, especially coming from Ohio. It doesn’t go down to 10 degrees for a month running down here, and it might snow twice a year. I think the weather especially as we get older becomes more bearable for Ohioans and Oregonians. I don’t play enough golf. I should play golf every day. I should at least practice every day. Both Patrick and his brother play golf and play well. Was music naturally shared with your children? CF: They all took piano lessons. I think I gave each
one of them a guitar pretty early on, but I didn’t really encourage them. Patrick is the only one who really developed any kind of work ethic on the guitar.
Were you pleased that music was something that bonded the two of you? CF: I think we have that relational buzz, like the
Andrews Sisters or Stanley Brothers. It has to do with if you are in the same family and speak the same way and form words similarly. It’s not just the notes that you are hitting but the way the words are formed, and that’s what makes it seem like a better blend. Do you and Patrick write songs together? CF: So far, I have helped
him finish a couple of things. I am usually all about writing a pop song: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, maybe a little instrumental, then the last chorus and it’s done! And it’s done in three and a half or four minutes. And that’s kind of the way I think. Patrick may have a harder time with that. We have a place in Nashville, and he goes over and has some friends he writes with.
Patrick, how is it to share music with your dad and what influence did he have on your own music? PF: It was definitely
helpful as far as his experience. It is a shared fascination with words and music. He pointed me in the right direction, telling me to listen to this if you want to write this kind of song, or these are the experts on these motifs. I was a strange kid growing up on Pink Floyd. We used to listen to them on car trips. One of the best things he ever did was when I was 8 or 9, and the first two CDs he bought me were “Hard Day’s Night” and “Help.”
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