Shawn’s aunties made her wedding dress, and, outside Natalie, Lyla was the most beautiful bride I’d ever seen.

Left her job in good hands down in Phoenix and started volunteering at an animal shelter up there.

She runs that animal shelter now.

Preacher himself cleared out another patch of their land, little bit farther up the mountain. But it wasn’t only him who built the studio up there.

Roadmasters recorded our next album there and then…

[Slowly smiles]

Well then, the rest, I guess, is history.

THEN

The Interim

Interviewer’s Notes:

Since their comeback, regardless of some of the bandmember’s side ventures—including DuShawn Williams’s ongoing solo efforts, the Second Coming carrying on throughout the aughts before disbanding in 2011 after Dave Clinton’s partner had their first baby and he wished to spend more time at home with his growing family, eventually becoming (for the most part) a stay-at-home dad, Jesse Simms going on to be a sought-after music producer, and Tim Townes becoming deeply involved in his wife, Marty’s film documentary directorial efforts—Preacher McCade and the Roadmasters released six more albums and toured four times.

All of these albums were recorded in the studio on McCade’s mountain.

The band still records and performs, and to this day is managed by Tom Mancosa.

In 2007, Jesse Simms married Natalie Rathwaite, a paralegal he met while the Roadmasters were organizing their third Legal Aid charity concert.

Natalie Rathwaite-Simms has since become a civil rights attorney, and they have two daughters, aged ten and eight: Delphin (which is, incidentally, Preacher McCade’s middle name) and Genevieve.

Jesse Simms’s mother, Minnie, died when Simms was fifty.

Thus, she lived not only to see her son earn success in one of the most respected, and enduring, rock bands in history, but also the marriages of all of her children, and the births of six (seven) grandchildren.

Simms’s sister, Lana, married an NYPD officer who is now a detective. They have three children. She lives with her family in New York City.

Shortly after these interviews were conducted, Simms and McCade, with Lyla and Lana, encouraged Simms’s sister Penny to enter rehab.

Penny is still married to her second husband, they have one child, and she is sober for the first time in over three decades.

Penny’s first child is still unknown to the Simmses.

After McCade’s parents were found guilty, and the story broke not only about the death of Baptiste McCade, but the conviction of DuShawn Williams and McCade’s parents’ part in that, from before Preacher McCade’s disappearance, until very recently, McCade, the Roadmasters, Tom Mancosa and Williams’s and the Roadmasters’ fans campaigned vigorously for a review of Preacher McCade’s father’s statements as a witness in the prosecution of DuShawn Williams.

DuShawn Williams was exonerated in 2019.

Williams donated the restitution he received to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.