I met Randy back in 2015. He was in full panic mode right before going on stage at an open jam I had been hosting for 12 years. Something wasn’t right with his amp, and he couldn’t figure it out. I walked over calmly and said, “No problem, buddy — I’ll fix it for you.” After that, he stuck around and watched the house band. When we finished, he came up to me and asked a simple question: “Do you write songs?” That question hit me harder than he probably realized. I grew up in