So, you’re an actor, or a singer kind of thing.

Yeah. As an entertainer I just feel blessed to be able to do both. I don’t really consider myself to be one or the other. I don’t really pull my identity from what I do for a living. I think my identity is more who I am as person, and who my family are and who my friends are as opposed to what I do to make money.

You write all the lyrics and music that you play but you have put together a band to play with you, correct?

Yeah, uh-huh. I have been in bands before and it’s always been great until somebody’s life changes. And that’s just the way it is with bands. You play with people and then this or that happens, somebody has to move or somebody has to get a full time job or they get married and then the band is no longer what you formed. So when I decided to start doing music this time around, I decided “you know what, I’m going to be myself, I’m going to be Willie Herath, I’m going to be a solo artist. And then I’m going to find some really great guys that believe in me, who believe in my music.” I give them, obviously, a percentage or a portion of the licensing and the royalties to the album as well, like it is a real band but if some of the guys come and go through out the years there’s no confusion.

Tell us about your band.

My lead guitarist is named Rob Heskin and he is a really great guy. He is from Colorado. He is trained in classical performance – he got a degree in that from Colorado State University. He is a really, really, fun guy and he and I have actually become great friends over the years playing together. He and I just went to Butler University last week and played a show. We did an acoustic show so it was just him and I and acoustics. It was fun, I like hanging out with him a lot.

My drummer is named Jordan Hill. I actually met him about a year and a half ago here in L.A. and he is also from Illinois, my home state. We didn’t know each other back home; we met once we got to L.A. He’s a really great guy, he’s a family guy, he’s married and he’s got a kid as well. He is a great drummer. He actually wrote all the drum parts to Cohgie Never Landed. What I did, I had recorded the album in its current state to a click track, then I burned it all to a CD. So basically the same thing you have now but with a metronome in the background. And then I mailed it to him and he threw on his headphones and got on his drum set at home and just started adding really cool drum parts to it.