I first met Joe at a "Big Hugh-Baby Hop" in Villa Rica, Georgia. My High School
"Hugh-Baby" (Jarrett - one of the original Jordainnares) didn't make it that night (ran off the road, as I understand it), but later, I asked to sit in on drums that night. The featured artists were Joe South And The Believers
What else, "You Don't Miss Your Water", while I was at Muscle Shoals trying to get some tape-time with The Watchmen? I was the drummer but it never made an album.
That's as close as I ever got, except to know he was extremely OCD and would drink anything he thought would get him high. I cried when he died. Someone misunderstood [i]something[/i[.
Bill
EDITED TO ADD: I was 16 at the time.