Robert William Golden (Bobby) born in Detroit, Michigan July 24, 1952. I moved to Macon, Georgia when I was about three years old. I grew up outside of Macon and went to school in Perry, Georgia.

I group up listening to AM radio (late nights listening to WLS from Chicago). All the hits - Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys!
Living in the South I was heavily influenced by the Soul and R&B music of Otis Redding, Sam Cooke...

I started to play music at about age 8 or 9 at school. I started with the trumpet.
In Middle School (age 12) I asked my dad to teach me a song on the guitar to play in a talent show. I learned the song quickly and it seemed so natural. My father had played with his friends/family in a Country/Western band when he was a boy.

When I started playing guitar my older brother already was playing some. I soon passed him and brother learned to play bass and we were soon playing every weekend for friends and family at our home. Our first outside gig came in 1967(age 14) playing for some Airmen at the USO club.

The band started as the Golden Boys, then changed to the Golden Arcade. I believe that Coldwater Army was formed about 1969.

The Golden Boys, with my brothers, played whatever was popular on the radio - from the Bee Gees to the Doors. The Golden Arcade was more of a Soul Review featuring two black singers. We played fraternity parties all over the South. This carried over into the first version of Coldwater Army. We played a lot of Chicago type songs (horn section). This is the group that recorded "Peace" when I was 17. The album never took off but we got a lot of studio time at one of the studios in Macon. The second version of Coldwater Army did a more rock oriented album (no horns) but it was never released. I will try to get you a CD that was made from an old tape.

At the time, I thought that it was pretty good but it sounds very dated now. The bands of the late 60s can be heard on the songs. Chicago, Creedence...

The first Coldwater group broke up shortly after the release of "Peace". Some of the guys were serious about the College and moved away to stay in school.

I met Bob Spearman (who sadly passed away in 2002 from cancer) before Coldwater Army. He was airmen at Warner Robins Air Force Base. This was during the Vietnam war and there were a lot of clubs to play on bases. I grew up with the other members of Stillwater around Warner Robins. They all grew up, like myself, playing in local bands. We used to go see each other play when we had the chance. I didn't know them at the time but was really impressed with there playing and singing. We formed at the beginning of 1973 when we met in college and decided to give the music a full time shot.

We signed with Capricorn records the same day they found out that Atlantic Records wanted the band. We were being managed by Phil Walden & Associates along with my father (Duke Golden) at the time. Actually, we had been hanging around the offices a lot and some of the staff and producers talked them into signing us.

The album was fairly easy to record because much of the music had been written and played on the road.

The hit song from the album "Mindbender" was written while we were recording the album with much of it done in the studio after our producer Buddy Buie (Atlanta Rhythm Section producer/writer) had penned the lyrics.

While recording the first album, Rob Walker and Mike Causey went to a lake in Alabama with our producer Buddy Buie (Atlanta Rhythm Section) to do some fine tuning on some of the songs. Rob had a riff and Buddy had the idea for the lyrics. We recorded it the next night in the studio and it ended up being our single.

Stillwater played clubs all over the South. We were playing a mixture of cover songs and song that we had written.

We toured a lot with The Charlie Daniels Band and Atlanta Rhythm Section. We played shows with most every southern rock band from Blackfoot to the Allman Bros. band.

Doc Holliday and Stillwater are from the same town. We enjoyed watching each other's bands play. Rob Walker (Stillwater) did some recording with them. Over the years we have seen each other countless times around town playing at different bars. We are good friends today

The Rebel Jam was a special night in Atlanta with Stillwater, The Dixie Dregs, and Sea Leavel being recorded at the Fox Theatre. Sold out show and ended up being one of our best memories. The late Capricorn engineer Sam Whiteside did a good job of recording it.

No European dates but we played in Nova Scotia, Canada a few times.

Capricorn records went bankrupt after our second album. We turned a record offer hoping to get signed with a new label on the west coast which fell through. We played and continued recording until the end of 1983. I left the group to go back to college. The band quit playing shortly after.

I am an engineer now. My degree is in electrical engineering but I have been doing software engineering for military aircraft for the last 15 years. Working on F-15 and the new F-22 fighter and a couple of years in Italy working on the Eurofighter aircraft.

Rob Walker (guitar) is playing guitar for the US Air Force. What a gig!!!! He is living in Japan now. Hope he doesn't have to play in North Korea anytime soon (ha!).
Mike Causey (guitar) is in radio advertising sales in Macon, Georgia. He plays a lot with different bands around town. Actually, Mike, Sebie and Al have a small combo along with Eddie Stone and play special parties and events. Sebie Lacey (lead vocals & drums) owns a clothing store in town and plays with Mike.
Al Scarborough (bass & vocals) works for the US Post Office but plays in a band on weekends "The Wall" and plays with Mike and Sebie.
Jimmy Hall (vocals) works at a box factory around town. He comes to the Stillwater reunions and sings a few songs. Bobby Golden (guitar) I am a software engineer living in Atlanta but used to play with Al in "The Wall" until I moved to Italy. After moving back to Atlanta from Italy, I have only been playing the Stillwater shows and sometimes sitting in "The Wall".
Bob Spearman (keyboards) Passed away in October of 2002.
David Heck (drums) works in finance and lives in Colorado. He plays quite a bit around the mountains of Colorado and always makes it back to Macon for the Stillwater show at Christmas.

This album was a work of love to complete the album that we were working on in 1983 when we disbanded. We went into the studio with producer Rodney Mills (38 Special) and recorded about half the album with songs that had not been completed in 1983 and finished the album by remixing the 1983 tapes. We remained close friends after 1983 playing Reunion Concerts in Macon at Christmas time every year (we still do).

The CD was never picked up by a label and is available locally at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame I believe.

No project to record is planned but we have all agreed that we want to do another record.

We discussed of a live album but we don't have time (we're living in various parts of the United States and of the world) to repeat properly and coordinate a professional recording live. I hope we'll do it one day. We agree that we want to release another studio album. I hope it will occur!

Stillwater plays annually in Macon at Christmas time with a host of friends including Jimmy Hall (Wet Willie) and Ronnie Hammond (Atlanta Rhythm Section)

Capricorn's albums were being released by Universal on CD but a falling out stopped further releases.

The songs that were recorded and not released on Capricorn were released on "Runnin' Free".

This is a little selfish but my favorite is "Women" off of the second album "I Reserve The Right". Technically, it is one of the best recorded tunes and I really enjoyed playing the solo on this song.

Kid Rock, Avril Lavigne (great young rock), Christina Aguilera (she so "dirty"), Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, John Mayer, 3 Doors Down, Alan Jackson.

Really, I guess that I think of the great "old" Southern Rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd (my favorite) and of course the Allman Bros and ZZ Top.

Southern Rock is alive with a new twist. I really like Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty and The Black Crowes.

During the annual Stillwater show in Macon Ga. at Christmas, we usually only play Stillwater songs. Don't know which tape that you saw. We have done "Layla" as an encore and a medley of "Little Richard" tunes. Of course we have special guests sitting in with us. This last years was Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie, and Ronnie Hammond from Atlanta Rhythm Section.

Margaritaville is a small club in Warner Robins, Ga. The Margaritaville show from 1997 was with the band "The Wall" which included myself, Bob Spearman (keyboards), and Al Scarborough from Stillwater along with Steve Bloodworth (guitar), Mark Johnson (drums), Dave Rickerson (vocals).
If any other Stillwater guys were there they were just jammin'. The Wall is an extremely good weekend band that plays cover songs from The Beatles to the Allman Brothers. They have not recorded. I was playing with them before I move to Italy. Even though I am not a current member, I still sit in with them. Al is the only original Stillwater playing with them now.
Stillwater plays their annual show in Macon at a huge nightclub "Whiskey River" that can hold up to 2000 people. The last show drew about 1700.

I lived and worked in Italy when I received a part of the rights paid by Dreamworks to Stillwater to have used the name of Stillwater in the film "Almost Famous". After having called at house to know why I touched these rights, I discovered that the company of Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks, had contacted Sebie Lacey, our singer to establish a deal concerning the use of the name. The young Cameron had seen us in the seventies, in Macon, Georgia, at the time of a concert organized by Capricorn Records, whereas he wrote in Rolling Stones. Even if the film is not devoted to us, it remember me some good memories of our ten years of tours and recordings when we were. almost famous.