Not at all Steve. Another detail: while the Evan Johns Moontan album was being mixed and mastered (by Rodney Mills, who worked with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Atlanta Rhythm Section, 38 Special, etc.), a tour was being set up to support the release of the album. One day Evan started not feeling well, and went to the emergency room up in Vancouver, B.C., where he was living. He was admitted to the hospital, where he lapsed into a coma; final stages of liver failure. That was the end of the tour plans.
The week we spent recording, Evan ate one meal, the rest of the time chain-drinking 12 oz cans of room-temperature Budweiser. The band arrived in Atlanta a day after he, and on the morning of the first day of recording there were two 18-packs of empty beer cans outside his hotel room. He ended up awaking from the coma a few weeks later, and we learned this had happened twice before. He said to me: "As long as you stay away from the hard stuff (whiskey, I presumed), you’re okay". Apparently not; he died in Austin, Texas last year, only 60 years old. Really interesting, funny guy, and a great guitarist. Both he and Danny Gatton (nicknamed "The Humbler" by Vince Gill) came out of the Virginia Rockabilly/Blues/Hillbilly scene, and were in bands together off and on for years. One of the songs on Moontan is entitled "Shoot The Merle" (a play on words, i.e. the Surf song "Shoot The Curl"), a tribute to Merle Travis, the very influential Hillbilly guitarist, loved by Scotty Moore (Elvis), Jeff Beck, George Harrison, Clarence White (The Byrds), and of course Marty Stuart.