I was standing backstage at the Continental Club one night talking with rockabilly legend Billy C. Riley while Jesse Dayton set up. Riley had his back to the stage when Dayton looked at his band, gave the nod, and jumped on the accelerator. The opening salvo was so highly charged and super-amped that Riley involuntarily ducked. Recovering from his surprise, Riley jerked his head around, shook his hips like Chubby Checker doing The Twist in a little moment of dancing joy, and hollered, "Yeah, man! Go, cat, go!" Riley later told me "that guy coulda made it in the old days." He called Dayton "one gone cat." Meet the rest of the Band A lot of people have called Jesse Dayton a lot of things. When he was the guitarist in country legend Ray Price's orchestra, Price affectionately called him "Beaumont." After hearing Dayton run through a few songs in a Nashville studio, Johnny Cash respectfully called Dayton "different." After injuring his picking thumb, Waylon Jennings called Dayton to play Waylon's guitar parts on Right For The Time. Seattle rockers The Supersuckers called Dayton North to help them record what has become an alt-country classic, Must've Been High. The Austin American-Statesman simply but quite accurately called Dayton "turbo-country." Jesse Dayton just doesn't do it like everyone else.