country family vol 2

[Music] you came back for more huh i'm larry black hasn't this been great did you ever think you would hear these behind-the-scenes stories told by the folks that lived to be here during the taping was truly incredible i felt like a fly on the wall watching history being made when they started telling grandpa joan's stories i couldn't stop laughing and it's not over on the tape you're about to watch grandpa tries his hand or should i say his voice at yodling i'm getting ahead of myself i told you before i've seen these tapes over and over and i still get tickled at them if you're ready i'm ready let's join the country pioneers for a chorus of that great old song will the circle be unbroken [Music] [Applause] [Music] i think everybody in this room knows a lot of old songs but i'm going to tell you that old boy sitting over there with the flat top guitar mac wiseman probably knows more old songs than just about anybody one of my favorite days mac was the time we did the matinee and night show up in canton ohio and we went over to our buddy ken speck's house for dinner between shows i sat there calling out old songs trying to stump him trying to find a song he didn't know i couldn't find one we got a bunch of people here today that know old songs we're going to see if we can stun the world on an old old school house one day with with uh mac and chet atkins oh and chet knows a bunch of gold and sit there and listen to them sing them old songs but then again they're so old dude start off do a little bit of uh the baggage coach ahead all right i mean we're going over what a dark stormy night has the train rattled on all the passengers had gone to bed [Music] except one young man with a baby in his arm who sat with a bow downhill the innocent one began crying as though his poor heart would break make that child stop his noise what angry man said for it's keeping all of us away [Music] do it all to do it all i know [Music] oh i'm growing very weak let one drop of a water [Music] tell my loving little play mates [Music] give them all my toys [Music] keep on the sunny side [Music] always on the sunny side deep on the sunny side of life it will help us every day if it'll brighten all the way it will keep on the sunny [Music] mike recited the down in the wilderness oh gosh uh-oh in a dry spell there boys [Laughter] okay [Music] when i saw the postman coming up the pathway with such a happy face and jolly hair he rang the bell with the sword while he waited then he said good morning to you jack but healing you the sorrow that he brought me when he handed me the letter is [Music] and this is for what it says [Music] mother's day [Applause] [Laughter] margo was telling me you want a yodel son you got a yodeling story okay well i mean you know i've always loved dolly parton and and um i'm the only person that i know that can sing you know like the those little guys that they the christmas on christmas christmas time is he time without doing anything to your voice no it's called the chipmunks yeah alvin you know so yeah i i called down the basement yeah i called down the basement to my kids and i said turn off that record stop doing that it was an old 33 you know and they'd speed it up you know make they said no mom that's a 45 that's you but i know i have an unusual little voice and and yodling is fun and uh one time i was yodeling really really fast they call it shotgun yodling i think it was in west virginia another west virginia story and it's like and then it goes well this guy was really dressed up he had a nice suit and after the show he came up and he said i want to buy that and i said what do you want to buy he said i want to buy the thing that you push to make all that money have you got a yodeling song that the band can follow you on sure um in the key of c how about [Music] where i met he taught me it's easy when you're oh singing first you take a deep breath you exhale one two three then you'll hear that young woman if you listen close to me especially in the wrong key this is this is [Music] hello [Music] this isn't the wrong key [Music] [Applause] okay grandpa your turn [Laughter] [Laughter] leave [Music] [Music] [Laughter] crap [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] you know somebody somebody that meant a lot to everybody in this room you're going somebody that meant a lot to everybody in this room was justin's dad i remember when he first came to the opry i remember listening to him while i was still in fort worth on a radio having to hold the wire so it would come in louder and hearing him sing on the opry in late 42 and early 43. wasn't he the first person to use an electric guitar on the outfit as far as i know he was he was he and he was working with pee wee king he and eddie arnold both i think were vocalists or were working with pee-wee's man because they were both uh booked by joelle frank who was pee-wee's father-in-law and uh but uh the story that daddy told me and that i've heard him repeat before is that uh judge haye didn't like the electric guitar and he said well j j he said that's i've been doing that so they'll sound like my records and the judge said well we're not too much interested in records around here the opry was the big thing and the radio show you know but anyway he let him use it and he later came to him and said well you were right it does make it better for you so but the story goes and i think ronnie brought this out in the book that he brought that honky tonk sound and the reason he used electric guitar was because what was big in texas was the honky tonks and the dance halls and you could not hear the music over the people talking and laughing and joking and dancing so they had to electrify the instruments as bob wills i think had first done to so they could be heard over the den of the people having a good time at the hunky town justin when did jimmy and leon short joining uh they joined him uh they were with him before he came here in 43 late 42 he officially joined i think in 43 and then they one of the other left and leon played lead for a while and jimmy went back to texas and then jimmy came back and uh then they both came to texas yeah and then they both came back and started the short brew and i think there was buddy and tommy that's right yeah kxyz in houston where i was yeah i got to meet them and then billy burke uh billy's after butterball yeah billy was the next one that stayed i mean there might have been one that you know they played a little while but in between your dad made all those guys household names he was the first one to call names out on records and he loved doing that he loved the guys and they were a big part of his show i mean and he wanted to make sure they got the credit for it and so he started calling their names out when they took a course but he was never jealous of anybody in his band outshining him he didn't you know he didn't mind that at all as he proved with jack green and cal smith and of course he had the wilbur's with him for a while and skeeter worked some dates with him george jones stonewall jackson and he was always pushing them and he like roy i think understood that the bigger they became the bigger he became johnny you had a story yeah i i don't have many but but i have one earnest [Laughter] many i can tell but uh ernest uh one time i was hanging around the streets it was snowing in them uh buddy emmitts took me on to meet him i always wanted to meet him and i had met him but i mean i wanted to sit and talk with him and he was getting ready to go on tour and i didn't have anywhere to stay you know i was at that stage in my life and evidently buddy had told him that because we got on he said i talked to him a while i was you know and he said well it's about time to leave he said yeah he said are you working ask me if i was working i said no he said you are now he was going on like 10 days out in texas and it was snowing here in nashville and i had nowhere to you know i just i was in that in that place where i was you know he took me on the road wound up give me a suit i didn't have nothing to wear so he gave me one of his old suits and took it to the cleaners and i had to cut down the first date we got in texas and it was so there was two pockets in the back that's how much i had to take up but i it was a and i still got a picture of me in in in that suit and i he let me go out and i opened his show for him for 10 days and he fed me and at the end of the tour gave me some money wow so that's kind of guy he was jack talk about ernest because you started out as the drummer in in ernest tubbs band well you know we uh just the other night we were telling road stories about e.t so many people have been influenced by earnest and also helped byron so many people like stonewall jackson and all all the guys that he took on the road uh he would always take other people out and give him part of his money and uh give him motel rooms a place to go and ride like you said he even gave him his clothes sometimes but earnest was probably the most important instrument on the grand ole opry that kept it going and give new people a chance to be heard cal smith and myself and many other people are examples of that and uh but he was a he was the kindest most giving man i've ever met in my life and uh he knew how to pick a good song and he knew what the folks liked and uh one night we were sitting on the bus in detroit michigan it was an afternoon this family came up and said ernest we just wanted to say hello we'd like to go see your show but we don't have the money so he went around the front bought eight tickets for the whole family to come in and see the show and he's just that kind of guy he always wanted to help so many people and he carried linda flanagan on the bus and skeeter davis and many other people to give him a chance to be heard and uh he's probably the most important figure one individual in this whole music industry called nashville tennessee bill i've got to tell this story we was up in illinois with ernest one day and ernest would never walk away from a fan he would stand and talk and sign autographs till till dawn it didn't matter this woman came up and she had had a baby a couple years before and she had named it after ernest tub and so i went on done my show and the guys uh the troubadours back me and they come back and they said ernest you better go back there and get dressed because it's time to go on the show in time for your part of the show and this woman just wouldn't walk away she just wouldn't leave him alone and he kept saying honey i i've got to go change clothes it was nice talking to you just she he was so gracious toward her so finally he said excuse me i have to go get ready for the show she said well if that's the way you feel about it i'll just change this baby's name he said lady i don't care if you call it baby grandpa jones you know uh he was so great to all of us that was in the business uh 1966 uh that year and we had the discharge convention you know in october right that's what so i had two records out that year that was girl on the billboard doo doo doo doo doo yeah and dale's a southern belle so me and him and justin was standing back uh at the old trailer or whatever that what we had wheels on anyway they pulled in there for a stage down here at this auditorium and we all had 30 seconds remember you get you got you got to do one verse or a course of your hit song and i said man i don't know what to do i stand behind us he said son just walk up there and go do whatever you do and what [Laughter] bill i swear he did i went up there and i went folks i'd like to do a medley of my heads [Laughter] [Music] was a dear friend of mine and we joked with each other a lot but i remember one time when we had no help on it out there you know and it was doing so good and i uh we played this show and i think we're on tour twice and as i walked back on the stage he said it's a damn good thing you can jump girl you can't say he told me something similar to that one night we'd been on the show and and our part of the show had gone over pretty good and i walked all nervous was standing in the wings he put his hand on my shoulder he said anderson you sell nothing better than anybody i've ever seen hey jack you you were saying what a compassionate kind man earnest tub was he kicked you off the bus one night that was the other artist oh you and cal smith right yeah cal and i both got off the same night what have you done my request i requested no uh and also there's something great come out of that ernest had those times i don't know it was a certain cities we'd go to that he had to get in the bible i don't know whether it was bad memories or whatever it was but we could tell on where went to washington dc he was on one and uh this particular night we had three days to do and the first night the troubadours did their first set and we extended it a little bit and took a break then we went back and did another set and extended that one a little bit and took a break and went back and did another another set and uh so uh jack drake said well boys it's over let's go back home so uh we got in the bus going back to the house and uh cal smith had uh had an altercation with ernest on the bus before we pulled out i never didn't know what it was about because i was loading my drums up but i heard cal say son you don't slap me i ain't gonna go for that and uh so he got the car with somebody else went to the airport and uh so we were riding down through virginia and ernest come up and sit down beside me and on the outside seat where i couldn't get out and he said son i want won't talk to you about your problems and i did have a lot of problems i had life problems i had money problems and i had kid problems and everything else but being on the road 300 days a year and trying to support a family back home and put kids through school uh is a little tough and uh so he he kind of rubbed me the wrong way that night and i said ernest i can handle my problems but you got one you can't handle and he said well when we get back to nashville you no longer work furnace tow i said well i don't have to get back to nashville i can get off here he said stop the bus [Applause] so i got off the bus and it was a two-lane highway down through virginia and i started walking i still had i still had on my rhinestone suit the brown ones with the red in it and the bell bottoms and the white boots and all that can you see that walking down through the hills of virginia anyway the bus kept running along beside me you know johnny wiggins kept saying get back on jack you saw it's all right get back on i said nope i'm through and so they kept telling me to get back on well they had i found out later they had a hundred dollar bet with ernest that i would not get back on and he bet him 100 that i would well i didn't know about that but anyway i got to the next town i walked to the next town which was about 18 or 19 miles there was a little all-night diner there called it blue blue something diner and uh so i went in there and asked the lady i said is there a bus goes by here she said yeah it comes about six o'clock in the morning that's a good if you don't mind all this drink coffee till they get here so it was about midnight then so i waited in the bus finally pulled up and i got up there and asked the guy how much it was tonight to uh nice when he said 25 and i said i've only got 15. i said can you get me to knoxville and about that time somebody slapped me in the back of the head and said i'll own you ten dollars it was cow he's got on the bus back in d.c so we we made our we made our plans all the way back to nashville we talked about what we was going to do no way would we ever go back to earnest you know we was going right on our own and all that and we swore to each other we wouldn't go back well we got to nashville he called us and said come down and we told him we weren't going to go back anyway he said well just come down we'll talk about it do the opportunity with me and we'll talk about it so okay we went down and we did the operating we never did talk about it we stayed three more years [Laughter] well the greatest thing that came out of it is uh artists told us he'd never take another drop and uh he told me years and years later that on the way home from the operating one night he stopped and bought a six-pack on the way home but he never opened it so uh he won and all the all the things that went through to to to bring that story through and me and cal got out on our own and well we stayed a little while longer but he helped both of us start our careers and uh encouraged us all the way through and made sure that the operator took care of us and all that and uh but his the the most important thing that came out of it he said boys if you'll come back i'll never take another drop and so that was the best thing that ever happened out of all that yeah yeah skeeter you've got dozens of ernest tub stories i'm sure well it goes right along with that because this was right before that and um i was on the road with him and then the bus the bus broke and so we had to get out and get in cars yeah so it was um johnny johnson and billy johnny johnson and uh jack jack drake excuse me and then and the other car was billy bird and me and uh ernest because they had the big base you know that had to go in the car too yeah and there we were on this highway and ernest was drinking and again you know like the bill carlyle thing with that i was always so frightened from that for that side not ever having drank anything so anyway i was getting really nervous in the back and so billy could see that i was nervous and and so because ernest wanted to drive all he wanted to drive all of a sudden he was so aggravated i guess because the bus broke and everywhere we had to get in cars and get to the show on time and everything so he was uh getting anxious trying to drive but he'd been drinking so i was getting real alarmed in the back so billy kind of gave me a motion that he was going to stop and for me to get out so billy pulled over and we both got out and e.t just got over and just started driving like you wouldn't believe it and i said well what are we going to do now we were on the highway up in canada you know and um i never wore high heels after that i used to wear high heels right on time i never wore high heels since that day that's right now you girls so i'm always wearing my little flat shoes you know but anyway we were there we were and i kept saying i started crying and praying you know and god keep him safe and i didn't where i wanted god to turn him around or send them boys back i didn't know what to pray for and uh main thing was for safety anyway billy said well skeeter they'll come back after us i said how will they know he left us he said because he'll pass him driving like that he'll pass him and that is what happened and then that night we got there and it was all the times i worked with ernest it was the only time that he had too much to drink and uh so they had decided that they would tell the people that he was sick because truly he was and so we did the show without him so i told them i was going to get a greyhound bus and go back home to dry ridge kentucky and i wasn't going to sing anymore i didn't want anymore this business because i loved him i thought he was the best and uh i i just was so hurt and so he came to the room the next day with with jack drake and billy byrd and he told me then he said i've got to do something about this drinking he said my little girl told me that um daddy uh you're not nice when you drink the old schlitz that's not a very good commercial for that beer company but i don't do beer commercials so anyway he said that you know daddy and so and that's when he was starting and that to stop that and uh i don't know i've always felt so it's really hard for me to not say something when anybody brings up on his tub well uh ernest is responsible for me being in the music business when i was growing up over in western north carolina about two miles from our farm was a service station and general store and they put in a jukebox well one of those wurlitzers played the 78s all the bubbles going around i said boy we've hit big time now and out on the farm when you i'd be working in the fields i could tell when a record was playing you could hear the music sort of walking through the air but you could understand every word ernie's tub record every word and i thought to myself now there's something unique about that why can't i understand him and i can't understand the others so i went out and bought a song book in this guitar instruction book and discovered after about three months and i wasn't cut out for this so i gave that up but when i really got into the music business i said i hope i could tell him somebody what he meant to me because i don't think a man had any idea the impact he had on the world and you know there are many great and talented artists that come along over the years but they're just only a handful of true originals they're not influenced by anybody they create their own thing and he was one so i finally got to meet him and i s i'm no wake it i call him ernest my lord so i walked up and i said mr tub my name is fred foster he said i know who you are then i didn't know what to say because the fact that he knew who i was just blew me away and i said i want to tell you you're responsible for me being in the music business and i told him he said well tell me how and i told him and he said well bless your heart he said just pass it on and i've tried to do that but that set the philosophy of my whole record company i wanted originals i wanted nobody to sound like them i want them readily identifiable and i always insisted they enunciate so you could understand the world we're talking about ernest tub a while ago there's another name from that era and of course he and ernest made records together and that's red foley and billy i know you knew read well because you worked on the ozark jubilee you you toured with him a lot in fact i think you played the last show that read foley ever played yeah uh we uh we worked in fort wayne indiana uh two shows one in the afternoon and one at night and uh this is pretty heart rendering uh because red came to my dressing room and he said billy i because we had worked together for four years on the ozark jubilee and uh this was uh long after that he said the there's something different about you and uh i began to tell him about my association with christ and so red just really kind of broke down and he he began to weep and he began to tell me everything that he had ever done wrong in his life and it was really heart rendering to me and so we just had a short prayer before i had gone because i was opening the show and and hank jr then went on and then foley came on and then i came and watched him on the wings doing his show and he the very last song he ever sang was called peace in the valley and he walked over to me when he got through and he said billy i've i've sang that song a lot of times in my life but i have never sang that song with a feeling that i have in my heart tonight and of course then two hours later red foley had passed from this life to another life and that was peace in the valley bill i also worked that show with y'all in fort wayne indiana we went on down to alabama and worked for governor wallace did you and uh i couldn't believe it the next morning when we got up and uh there was a little article on paper said the singer fully dies but that night he literally everybody's heard how red folk could just gather a crowd up right in his hand and let him go at will and believe me he did that night bill you talking about people will come up and they get songs all mixed up they'll sing a lineup and think that you all know what they're talking about one night some guy come up and i'd just done a hank williams song he said hey saying dear john i've sensed your saddle horn i said well i ride horses but i don't know how you sent your saddle he said oh you're singing a while ago that dear john i've sensed your saddle horn [Laughter] down home you know ernesto was so big down in south louisiana and it requires i'm walking the floor on top of you [Laughter] [Music] jeannie telling about getting that that man getting that title wrong reminded me of uh back i don't know if it's the 60s or when did hello walls come out well i'd heard it but my mother was telling me about this wonderful song that had come out that she just loved called hello walt and hello walt and and it's this guy he's talking to all these other guys you know that uh that have loved her too you know hello hello steven ceilin hello walls she had a name hello wendell from wendell she had that injury she had she had a whole line fixed up you know for each one of these men i said mama you must be talking about hello walls oh no hello walt so next next time it came on she said see there it is hello walt listen mom that's hello walls and we argued about what it was i won the argument hey bill i uh i was working a honky tonk over in the new mexico and this guy about half polluted come up and all the time he say hey i want you to sing that song your heart's hanging out and i was i was saying a lot of every song i knew i said he said that ain't it that ain't it that is seeing your hearts hanging out you've been singing it i know you know it seeing your heart's hanging out i said i don't know a song called your hearts hanging out i said don't look now but your heart's hanging out but the old ernest up song that i've used to sing called don't look now but your broken heart is showing your heart's hanging out jimmy gaitley had a guy come up to him one night and say sing that song called it's snowing and jimmy said i don't know what it's all called it's snowing he said oh yeah it's snowing at your door as always mac you've got a you got a song title yeah i went to uh carnegie hall to play uh there with johnny cash you was on the show yeah george jones and uh the carter family and i just got out of the hospital in california been out there several days so i wasn't really up to snuff but and was a little anxious about what whether what i would the type songs i did would fit into that new york crowd or not but we're there in the afternoon for sound check and this lady came up said hope you're saying my favorite song tonight and i said what's that she said that one about my little lima bean and i said lady i don't believe i ever sang a song about my little lima bean and she said uh oh yeah you did it's my favorite i said do you remember the words she said the first line is every time i think about my little lima bean it was it was a song that lubin brothers and i wrote but the line was every time i think about my little i'm a gene so i knew that everything would be all right at carnegie hall bill carlyle what was the one that you heard on this great old song called born to lose what did you hear born too loose [Laughter] chevrolet you've had a lot of fun over the years with song titles with your alter ego been colder you've taken a few song titles and changed them around haven't you yes i have [Laughter] maybe you will be recused maybe you will grace us oh you want me to let me have that [Music] i didn't see you standing there [Music] did i hurt you hello [Music] and i'll let you guys just imagine [Music] hey whoa hello why didn't you let them burn the door and the ceilings [Music] that chandelier it's all lit up it just took a [Music] hello benchy [Music] you know i can't sleep if this bed keeps spinning around there's a picture on the headboard and i've seen them folks before show them i mean [Music] [Laughter] you were telling me a little bit about you coming to nashville you just packed up with nothing going on up here and moved didn't he that's exactly right my husband worked for the highway department uh in texas and one day he just got tired of seeing me crying my dish water you know he'd come in i'd be crying to somebody on the grand ole opry i'd have country music playing and and i'd have red eyes and so he came in one day and said pack your duds we're going i've done quit the job so you know we had to go come up here so he could get another job and we came to town and i love to tell this it's kind of sad but it's kind of funny at the same time we got to town and we were so sweaty as 57 chevrolet we came to town in when we moved up here uh we'd come all the way with a little baby in the car and our daughter kim who was six months old at that time and it was the heat of august no air conditioning or anything i mean we were soaking wet hot hungry broke and before we could go to our motel out on dickerson road we had to drive down by the ryman and we had to go down by broadway and everything and i remember uh this drunk singing into this old this parking meter and i thought i thought they don't all make it here you know that was my first bit of discouragement i got i got to tell y'all you know you've always heard what a small world this is and uh when i was living in spring hill louisiana i had my first top 10 record and i was on tour with ernest tub george jones in texas and i had this old beat up cadillac and that sucker broke down and i coasted in this service station in texas and uh i had about 15 i said how much you reckon now this will take to fix this he said probably about sixty dollars i said sixty dollars and uh i had my trunk home he said uh you play at guitar so yeah i'm on the louisiana hey right he said no kidding he said i tell you what i get this fix for you if you do a little picking and singing while we're working on it i said man let me get my guitar out i was singing all songs and uh he said you know i got a niece that really is a good singer and i said you know oh okay that's great yeah well keep encouraging her you know hey maybe one day and so harper valley pta was a monster hit i saw this guy named johnny moore oh my uncle he said bro [Laughter] how is johnny moore he's wonderful he's a great guy he's really the guy that brought me to town and gave me the first jamboree to sing on back home and oh yeah i wouldn't be here today without him he was talking about you being while i was picking and singing and working on my car he used to come up here and record for star day records and that's how i i knew to come to nashville you know i i knew that the grand ole opry came off the radio but i didn't really think about where it was coming from it was just coming off the radio and right now but my uncle made me aware that nashville is music city usa and the place to be if you wanted to make country music [Laughter] well billy hindered the microphone back there the uh the big year for for the end of the world when that was the a big big country hit big crossover hit in the pop field i shouldn't tell him she came to the house to listen to that and said i don't know you better bring out something else should i whatever i say oh that is through this song i cut this song i recorded it fell in love with the words finally got to meet the writer when i did a concert in carnegie hall she was a girl from arkansas and uh had married a doctor and lived up there she was 44 years old when this song became number one you know all the charts and even in so many other countries which i traveled to in the past 15 years but um i fell in love with these words and i kept trying to get checked to bring it out and it stayed in the vault the rca vault for about two years and i would play the tape it's the only record i ever made where i would play the tape you know i would like to i would want to hear that song and i'd play the tape and it is true i mean i was teasing you but um i was getting different artists that would come to the house and say you know help me get checked to get this out you know and everything and most of them said well you know you got some other things that are better and finally i had to tell him it's either this or i'm going back to kentucky i mean you know and this was this late in my career but i just believed in this song so much i never dreamed it'd be the number one record in the pop charts i never believed it would have a life that's lasted this many years that's taken me all over the countries but i was glad i got to meet the writer and she actually told me that she was 44 years old that night at carnegie hall but she wrote this when she was 14 years old the words she wrote it for her feelings that and for what her mother had said when her father passed and i was so happy to hear that because what i had done i these were the feelings i felt when i've lost a couple of people that had passed and but everybody else was thinking it was because me and ralph broke up now let's let him think it and it worked i think after that we need a happy son that is so beautiful so so touching can i just say something before i i it's very special to me being here with all you people because i've i've known y'all known of you before i knew you and i and i've loved you and the first person that ever said why don't you come to nashville to meet with jimmy dickens when i was 12 years old wow and uh could we talk dickens worked with dale when we were in california with gene when i was a teenager i was three and i was six yeah and to just be here among this group means an awful lot to me but i got to thinking yesterday that we came up in a time i don't care what they say about how successful country music is today but we came up and we lived in the golden years of country here i never i never got to meet hank williams but most of y'all did a lot of you did but knowing and working with dickens and kitty and johnny and all of y'all that are here but also fahren young and webb pierce and hank snow and roy acuff and minnie pearl there's never going to be people like that again and that's not to put the young ones that are in it down it's like carl smith said you know somebody told him said we all had more fun than we do and he said we all don't do nothing but we we have we have a camaraderie together we've we've lived together we've worked together we've traveled together and they don't do that today we were raised on hank and we were raised on uh many we were raised on these people we've been talking about they were raised on the eagles and the beatles and the rolling stones and that's the difference right there every house i've ever bought the beatles paid for [Applause] but we but we really honestly and it can never be repeated we lived in the greatest time that country music has ever known or will ever know or will ever know well there was an awful lot of closeness in those cars more than just physical closeness i mean you had to get along i mean we were in dre we'd go to a coliseum and instead of everybody's being on their own bus we'd be in one dressing room gene shepard said turn around boys i got to change clothes and uh and that that brings you close together it's we're all very fortunate to have been up and those of you that had buses when there was people like me you'd let me ride on your bus and you know don't pay no attention what she says what'd you say i don't think the microphone picks you up i came up in the air when i didn't ask them to turn around i learned a lot from you guys i told you i told [Laughter] i was trying to get a happy song i wanted to hear some cajun music i had no jimmy says let's change what we have i like the challenge that's an awfully sad song let's do something live let's open it yeah i think you can do something you know alligator man it's not a single one song [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] hey [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh you're a great songwriter you wrote one of the biggest hits in country you've written a lot of them you wrote a ring of fire you wrote more and more but uh wolverton mountain boy what a song yeah thank you yeah well i wrote this song in 1959 because i was going to see my uncle clifton clowers who lived on wolverton mountain and wolverton mountains in arkansas between clinton and morrilton arkansas on route 65 and so i thought to bring him a president he turned me on to country music he played manlyn and fiddle and as a little kid i said well i can't wait to go on wolverton mountain to hear uncle clifton pick so when i got there they were cutting sargon molasses in the in the field and i said uh clifton i wrote your song as a present so i sung the song to him and uh he was just uh just it's just dry as he can be he said well i think you wrote yourself a hit i said i just wrote it for you as a joke and he said you ought to think about that for a hit so i i had uh in fact the next week i was on tour with george jones and uh george and i shared a hotel room together he said sing me something new i sung in a little bit of wolverton mountains i hate mountain songs so johnny horton was one of my dearest friends and of course he had the battle of new orleans he was the hottest thing going and he said chief you got a song for me to record i can make you some money now so a song a song saw overton mountain he said uh you know something about mountain songs just don't get from the plains of texas you know here so i gave up i gave up on the song i moved to nashville and tillman pranks and uh came up to finish an album the comet charles album and uh he said uh taylor said merle have you got a song we want to help you out on your move to nashville have you got a song that uh that uh yeah let's folk music is really big now if you got a mountain song i said do i have it [Music] they say don't go [Music] [Applause] [Music] our tender lips are tenderless or sweeter than honey and wolverton mountain [Music] now [Music] i'm gonna climb that mountain go clifton flowers our tender lips are tender lips are sweeter than honey [Music] [Applause] [Music] should wander [Music] it's you know it just ain't right for him to hide that daughter [Music] who loves [Music] in the birds tell clifton flowers if a stranger should wander there well i don't care about clifton flowers i'm [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] i got to tell you a little story about merle kilgore we were working down in florida one time on johnny cash tour right and and kilgore was we were in my car and you were riding back home with me we're driving up you know whatever road was coming up on and kilgore looked at the map and he said we've got to go by the stephen foster museum he thought he was stephen foster reincarnated well they said i look like his pitch all right yeah okay he said it's just a little ways off the road here well it turned out to be a hundred miles off the road we went to the stephen foster museum and he bought everything that stephen foster old black no uh what what door chimes was it uh uh my old swanny river swanny river he bought everything and brought it home the car was full of stephen foster and don't you remember on the way back i said don't you think i look like steve but he's dead merle lady told me one time at a show she said you sound like hank williams i said but he's dead she said that's what i mean genie seeley you have been uncharacteristically quiet yes you're usually the the life of the party well i thought you were gonna tell the thing about the la the night you said you were hoarse you tell it bill anderson right there by this cage you know backstage at the grand ole opry one night he came up real seriously to me and he said i'm hoarse tonight and i said how can you tell and he's still my friend he's still my friend me and man i'm jealous did a show together one time he came up to me after the show he said hoss i stuttered and you whispered and nobody heard a thing that was going on oh another story about you um they did after well you turned on my microphone uh they did a a museum display on my life and and career and i went in and they had all of my report cards from school laid out there i was scared but i went up there and i did pretty good i got great grades but on every one of them said she talks too much but bill told me that honestly was your third grade report card the teacher had written billy whispers too much [Laughter] i think that's okay they need to hear from us one way or another don't you i don't know if fred foster still feels this way or not but the man who opened a lot of doors for me is sitting right behind me and i never did trust him behind me but i was always afraid i've come a long way when you recorded this song for his record label yes i did he produced this record for me yeah so if you'll hit me an a and i'm going to do one verse and a tag because i asked bill not to ask me to sing after lunch your hand is [Applause] [Music] the look and your eyes [Applause] [Music] don't open the door to heaven [Music] don't touch me if you don't love me sweetheart [Music] no don't touch me if you don't love me [Music] sweet fred did you know you had a hit record when you heard that the first time after genie recorded it well you know hank cochran probably the greatest song plugger that ever lived and certainly one of the best writers he used to come up to me and he'd say cousin i wrote one and i was going to bring it to you i swear i ran into owen and he's getting ready to do brenda lee he took it away from me and by then i'd say you got to play it for me anyway what if she doesn't do it you know of course he never had signaling anyway he called me one day and he said i got a girl singer you got to sign i said i'm not signing any girl singers that's the way they all felt and he said i've got a song though that goes with her well that made it a little more interesting so they came out and jeannie sat down in the floor in my office and before 16 bars had gone by i had chill bumps you could you know hop on this top oh so i said well i'll do that we'll assign her so we get to the session and we have this rhythm section so hank looks at me and says where are the strings cousin i said strange they're not going to be any strings on this why i said well it's an intimate song and it should all be her because she's so great well i know she's great but she might be greater with strings and that's it [Music] well we did the session dottie west came in when we were doing it she started crying in the middle of the thing and she said can you produce me like that i said no because first of all chet won't let me and secondly i don't really have time she knew too much by then and she said well i think that's one of the greatest things i've ever heard i said well hank wanted strings on it she said you can't pay any attention to him he doesn't know anything about it but it was a great record like you don't believe the mail and calls i got from fans about that record you were the first producer in nashville to cut a record on dolly parton weren't you yeah um no no that's what i said you weren't the first uh but i think buddy i think buddy kelly i believe buddy kellan did a split session on her but it never got placed okay let me rephrase that you did the first dolly parton record that got released right okay the way that happened was billy graves who was one of the country lads on the old jimmy dean show and when that went north to new york and left all the boys behind i signed billy grammer and he had got to travel on that was our first record then i signed billy graves and dick fled his singing partner and i wrote a song called the shag and billy did it it was a hit so he had to go on the road he came back off of one tour and he said that's it i can't do this it's too hard i don't want to ever be a star so he got a job at capitol records in the ar department i believe marvin hughes was the head and r here then and of course ken nelson out on the coast was ahead of the whole thing and billy called me one day and he said i've got to ask you if you'll do me a favor and i said well sure what is it he said there's a girl singer i said yeah he said i think she's fantastic and they turned her down ken nelson said she was terrible would you listen to her i said sure so dolly and bill owens came out the next morning and i said do you write and she said yes i said sing me four songs you've read meaning that anybody might look up and write one but you're sure never gonna look up and write four you know so she sang me four songs and i said uh if you come back in the morning i'll have your contract ready for monument and your songwriting contract with combine music group she said is that all there is to it i said that's all why are you doing this she said everybody in the world has turned me down i said well that's their problem not mine and uh i said i just want to ask you one question though before we agree to the terms here you know you are so different that there will be about as many people initially not like you as do like you could you live with that she said i don't care who doesn't like me as long as somebody likes me because i am going to be a star i said be here 10 o'clock in the morning what a great story story tell it all right let me have your microphone you think i'm crazy she wasn't gonna give me the mic for this one i was head of liberty records country department in california and janie was a secretary in our office out there and she longed to be a country singer well i had just signed willie nelson to his first contract and i was recording bob wilson had some hits so jeannie must have thought i knew what i was doing so she got me aside and said i'm thinking about going down to nashville do you have any advice for me i said i sure do says sit down here and i'll tell you i said when you first get to nashville people will judge you for a long time by your first impression i said now when you go there you go there with a serious mind about being a singer and don't get around that hank cochran in that bunch and start running on the boat and then staying up late at night and running around all over that place and give people the wrong idea she said i'll remember everything you said joe so she came down to nashville and married hank cochran yeah but what joe didn't tell you is every time he went to nashville he went out on the boat with hank coffin i was already married that's the part i missed so was hank dale reed you've been playing around a little bit with your uh doodle doo-doo-doo but i think we need to get uh more than just a little tiny taste of it yeah let's uh uh hold on we wrote this thing about a real real story that his wife worked at the bell telephone company and he'd go down there to pick her up in the afternoons and the song tells ruth's story what he's thought about him or you know but look hey boys all right [Music] telephone company in our town [Music] every afternoon i'm right there hanging around [Music] go [Music] watching them [Music] is [Music] [Applause] you don't need a band you just do the doodle do you want to turn around yeah well you know how i got that was i was trying to learn to play the violin a long time ago and you get the notes in your head so that's where it all comes from just that's right for the violin yeah well you know i had written in the first of all 1964 was girl on billboard didn't come by until uh 65. was hubert long and hank mills you as you know well and uh i was doing a tour with johnny cash and uh 64. and we had written a song with that one called nobody from nowhere and uh if it ever fit anybody in the world at that time it fit john our cash because he didn't know where he was at he didn't care where he was at and at times you couldn't even find where he was at but i seen him after the show that night we finally found him in miami and he went on i matter of fact i went on doing a couple of his songs luther got me out there while he tried to find him and well that was a terrible deal you know but i went on but after he got on and the show got on and he he got through i see his back her popping beers and in a dress room and uh my wife just had a new hairdo oh she was ducking you know and i sing in the song and uh uh when i got to see nobody from nowhere he said hofs i don't think i like that damn song [Laughter] but if i ask you though i'd use it whatever you're doing there i'll put that on a record buzz you well lo and behold when girl i had that on that on that demo that i sang for john and then i put it i found a girl on a billboard and i never forgot what i got john i never forgot what he said now i i put it to it and it it worked and now every time i see john he always says to me hello her doo doo [Applause] let me turn around and watch you tell it i'll bet you you didn't know this one john after jan howard decided to leave the road i almost became bill anderson's girl singer didn't i you sure did but i didn't make the grade i'll tell you who did though and she's so good and she fit his show just perfectly and that's mary lou turner and y'all had some hits together but i sang on those hits you sure did yeah uh ellie white and i did you sang on those they used to you and ellie used to sing on a lot of conway twitty's records yes uh well that's a strange that's the other story i was going to tell you because i worked in the studio with with him for 10 years recording linda on my mind and this time i've heard her more than she loves me and and on and on and on all during that whole segment yeah everything yeah tommy you know ellie white and i was on uh abc network in 1952 as a trio the drifters trio he played fiddler and i played guitar guy harry wintermore was singing and but we got all the talent patrolling incredible in 1952. yeah you brought up something you know there was a time in our business when they called our music country and western there was a time when they called it hillbilly too and i remember that very well yeah were you insulted when they called it hillbilly music no sort of no well no no that gene says no well i did an album called i was in new york a lot of guys wanted to change over to country music like these pop sounding guys but none of them want to be known as a hillbilly so if we if you know i didn't that would have stopped uh a lot of these guys from trying to think he's a good person because i didn't want to be noticing him i just wanted to be known didn't you i was getting to the fact that billy walker has recorded a lot of great western songs songs with western flavors to them well you know my old granddad was an absolutely west texas cowboy uh one of my granddads and in fact he rode the old chisholm trail and he used to tell me a lot of stories about the west and i got fascinated uh not only by all the stories that he told but you know the early cowboys singer sang about the old chisholm trail and all the gunfighter ballads and things like this and uh i guess me and marty both were vaccinated by sons of the pioneers needle and uh we enjoyed gene autry and roy rogers and uh all these songs uh kept coming up from my youth and when i heard the cross the brazos at waco i uh i said boy i've gotta i've gotta record that song it's a great song would you sing it for us i'd be delighted too [Music] all the chism trail it was midnight carmelo was strong put his mind because of the life he had chosen carmella had left him behind two long hip middle bandito carmella had left him alone but today someone from the message she'd been seen at old san anton cross [Music] he glanced back over his shoulder the posse was nowhere in sight it's in for carmela to meet him on the banks of the brazos tonight she was waiting and he kept the promise it made such a long time ago as he brought the guns that she hated then the money presents below cross the razzle said wake up ride hard and i'll make it by dawn across [Music] i heard then the night came alive with gunfire he knew that at last he'd been found as the rangers sped so brightly elf and only on the ground carmella knew he was dying that all of her dreams were in vain as she kissed his lips bark the last time she heard him whisper again cross the razzle said wake up fight hearts and i'll make it climb down [Music] oh i'm safe when i reach [Music] oh [Applause] i'll tell you what i enjoy those kind of songs had some pretty good background singers there carolee we were we were talking a little earlier about all the the great varieties of country music you've got country music you've got western music and you've got a lot of different styles of music in the country music business one thing that we really enjoyed in the 60s was some of those great songs that you did where you have sang and half whispered on yeah and uh don't y'all think that we ought to hear one of those great songs yeah yeah yeah yeah maybe maybe still or something like that only if i can get everybody in there bill i've got to tell this on you before you go any further here's something was they was talking about being disc jockey i was probably about the first person that bill interviewed yes and he talked to me for 30 minutes and i looked at him i thought this child is in over his head you don't know how to get out of it ernest hubba was on the show a lot of people so finally i just said bill i think i've talked i've i think i've talked to you long enough i need to turn you loose so you can go talk to somebody else that's how we're gonna having so much fun i was just in all of you i just had so many questions i wanted answers to all of them but you were very nice you ain't going to sing still are you yeah you go help me i don't like you still i've never liked that i've never song it and i've never liked you because of it go ahead bill what are you trying to say john well in 1963 i wrote a song and it did pretty good and i thought you know what this may be my one chance for the song of the year name still you know what the song of the year was in 1963 still still and i still ain't had a song you're still trying i'll probably never have another one well everybody in here singing well y'all know the part you said yeah whatever jump in there i know you know it because you did you did a parody to it oh [Music] oh after all [Music] y'all are great you want to go on the road i've yeah count of the islands and i've lost track of the days billy says sing to one person right in fact i've lost just about everything since you went away everything that is except the memories you left me and that's one thing that no one can borrow i don't know who you're with i don't even know where you've gone my only hope is someday you might hear this song and you'll know that i wrote it especially for you and i love you wherever you are after all [Music] you're still on my mind [Music] this flame in my heart is like oh i missed for every day it burns harder and every day it burns higher and i haven't been able to put up one limb flicker not even with all of these tears my friends all think i'm crazy and you're right and maybe i am but i'll carry this torch just as long as i can for some day you might just decide to come home and i want you to know i'm still here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you saying to every woman in this room but me and i have never been sunk i'm saying to you still though you took my car still i know you won't get far you'll be standing still [Music] still [Music] you'll run out of gas i've lost count of the time and i've lost track of the hours you know why honey i lost my damn voice do the part about the flame burning hotter and higher flame yeah it's getting hotter and hotter you may decide to come home sometime i don't think so and you might just find it i made the ass out of myself you've been in that fireplace too long ago [Music] did i'm not saying you are one one more little chorus here we go i was gonna do it but you had so much fun when you got too [Music] oh we're many apart [Applause] this is a lot of fun you guys are my friends and my heroes and and it's wonderful to be here i'm not going to interview shepard but i'm going to try to get her to sing can we get a song out of gene shepard i don't think we've had one microphone you know what i'm going to say i have no idea no i often say this and i truly mean it i think bill anderson is probably one of the greatest songwriters that's ever been in country music without a doubt and that comes from the heart you are stephen foster you don't look like him but you are here we go y'all hang on this don't cost nothing extra yeah yeah they got it jimmy capps are you there yes okay let's hear from you what are we doing slipping away [Music] monday's promise is tuesday's live saturday's party [Music] [Music] slipping away slowly slowly slipping away it'll be gone in a few more days if we don't stop this love of ours [Music] [Music] [Music] slowly slowly in a few more days if we don't stop this love of ours [Applause] hey please keep that on tape please please keep what's the last part [Music] this puzzle missing the whole [Music] it'll thing gone in a few more days if we don't stop this love of ours from slipping away if we don't stop this from slipping away [Applause] that's going to be a tough act to follow i guess you got a lot of great memories of your years with bill monroe don't you well i only worked with about one year in 1949 i came here they operated work with him but it was a very educational and pleasant year and i enjoyed it very much because we worked all through the years up to his death when he became incapacitated couldn't work any longer but with a lot of the festivals so we saw a lot of each other on the bluegrass festivals and toward the end of the evening we'd usually have a little gang bang so to speak and everybody was saying you know but uh i enjoyed his camaraderie he was a pioneer in his own way i'll tell you that do you consider yourself country or bluegrass well i just do not have any tag put on i do some of both but you do it well you say here tis [Laughter] anybody else here ever worked with bill monroe i mean the opry you know well is this two uh turn the mic around there mike let him yeah yeah i don't think it's funny what about bill now this this is really the truth i was one of the rope meetings and uh bill was sitting at the table with us and somebody brought up a promoter's name down in florida and bill said i don't like that man i never did like that man say he he done something to me one time said i don't remember what was but i never did forgive him [Laughter] we all lived in a trailer park over on dickerson road rainbow long time ago rainbow no it was uh yeah rainbow that's right bill had horses back then he invited me to ride with him one day and i rode because i was drinking back them days and we rode all day long never stopped riding and he never said a word all the way till we get back to the trailer camp he all said had a good time boy he was a man of few words jimmy thank you i had the pleasure um the year after i moved from louisiana here to the grand ole opry doing a tent tour all through mississippi until the tenth tornado came blew the tent away but anyhow we had a great it was a great experience to me because i've been working those knife and gone clubs in louisiana and and a few shows and uh yes and and then we did this tent show and uh the everlas uh were on the tour and on the tour the everlast had bye-bye love to be released and i had a fallen star to come out and that's at the time jim reads his four walls came out and i'll never forget those times because we had a it's a great experience working with bill later bill recorded two of my songs but we traveled in this limo and i wrote and rufus and i rode with the bill and we had the back seat with the four picking these dogs two two picking things up and you talk about dangerous too you have to be careful where you you sit down cause then dogs it's a great experience they eat you alive yeah yeah i got bit several times we handed them a crawfish every once in a while to keep them but we got my god it was a great experience well you know right after coming to the grand old operator tour with bill monroe and to know what it was like and the ten shows and everything and as i said he recorded two of my songs later so i've got great memories of bill monroe and most of us do bill i i spent a little time around miss monroe he looked like my father and i told him that first time i ever met him he must be a good looking man yeah yes sir who worked with him when mack just before or after mack worked with him i guess everybody in the bluegrass business is one time worked with bill oh yeah paul warren for instance and anyway flatten scruggs and build with the group were going up some place in kentucky to play and bill said pull up this next house up here on the right and stop over there stop it be there bennett so they stopped and and neil got out and he walked across a bridge walking bridge across this little house and he knocked on the door and this big tall fella came out and they went to fist city right there on the porch just knocking each other around then all of a sudden he turned around and came got back in the car and it went on it was his brother charlie something would bother him on his mind you know and he'd get all upset about that but talking about flattening scrubs and one more i asked earl one time and you know how sweet earl is just very quiet i said oh in all seriousness i said which hand is is the most important when you're playing the banjo he thought him and he said well you pretty much have to have both of them well do you know how many bluegrass players it takes to screw in a light bulb how many joe it takes seven one to screw it in and six to say earl scruggs didn't do it that way bill i worked a couple times as a bill when bessie was there and those little picking these dogs would eat you alive as long as you look at them that's okay but you turn around to leave the room and man they would attack you and i told best i said bessie the next time one of them lookers gets me it's they're going to pick them up off the wall because they were mean and speaking of bill he did travel with this horse one time they left nashville he had the horse in the trailer and they was driving about 40 50 miles down they heard this clappity clock and they couldn't figure out what it was well the bottom had come out of the trailer and that horse was running he run for 40 miles trying to keep up when i had open heart surgery bill monroe was there he came and he stayed with me until they took me down the hall and then he walked as far as it let him go and finally they said mr monroe you can't go any further and he i don't remember this because i was out but they told me about it he took my hand and he opened it up and he put a quarter in there and he closed my hand up and he said now you bring it back to me boy and then he stayed there and he took my kids to lunch and my daughter told me he said he didn't say nothing he just took us to lunch and sat there with us the whole time and he would not leave that hospital till he knew i was all right i was just gonna say and that shows how he was but what i'm amazed at as we listen to these stories and share these stories and just to see god's grace and goodness just protecting everybody and bringing everybody on these journeys and bill's saying for my 50th birthday and my 60th birthday but on my 50th i asked him and the girls know this because we shared this recently when we did a show together but uh he had named a little horse skeeter and on my 50th birthday i invited him to the church that i was attended which also is the church genius he was going through that we talked about and uh he came and he actually really committed his life back to christ and he had just been such a a christian that i think it was so great and um and when he left then when i went to his um funeral at the uh opry house and then also at the at rosine i slipped a quarter in his pocket because they did take the quarters out of the casket i think to give the children but i left one in his pocket john but i think that's what's so amazing just to hear all these stories and and just to see how god has been so protective and so gracious to everybody that all these journeys and i just have to throw that in right now i mean they may pitch it out but i got to throw it in there right now we were sitting in church one day sitting in church and bill always sat right behind me and he leaned up he said have you got chains for 100 i said no sir i sure don't he got up and went up to the altar and when they brought the plates up there he put the hundred dollar bill in and took chains out you know the preacher told me later he said he said that really touched me he said there's a lot of people that would have that hundred dollar bill and say well i can't put a huddle hundred dollar bill in there and i can't get changed so i just won't put anything in but he went up and he had to change that bill speaking a guy sent me a song this is true and it was called i don't want a cabin in the valley i just want to shack up in the hills i took it to acos and i said ake i got a hit song for you and i told him the title what acre thought was the funniest thing he ever heard so i went next door and told bill monroe i said mum got a hit song i don't want a cabin in the valley i just want to shack ben hill he's like you making fun people born raising cabins i said no he said i've gone raised kevin you're making fun of people even kevin i said no bill it's a joke all of these guys all these guys and he quit speaking to me if bill said heidi heidi he really liked you he quit speaking to me for months but he went to the hospital when he had heart surgery and i waited till he got out of intensive care and i sent him a little vine and i said i don't care if you are mad at me yo poot i still love you so when he come back it was heidi heidi again he mellowed a lot in his later years i think the incident about him getting out and fighting with charlie i don't think in later years bill when he died was the most celebrated bluegrass musician in the world oh yes he uh got big money for going out and doing these dates let me tell you about one of his last show dates we had a meeting of the justin tub fan club in the back room of a quincy steakhouse over in madison place was full i was invited to come out and tell justin tub stories which i can do for two three hours and i looked up and invoked bill monroe and john hartford and they said we've come to entertain at this boy's birthday and they got up and sung for an hour and bill turned around and said if you ever need me i'll be back and he walked out he used to come in church and bring the whole band and and uh and get up and he'd just walk into church and he'd tell the preacher say i brought the boys and our music and the preacher said well do you mind if i give my sermon first listen no no sure when you get through bill get up there with the band and do an hour hey you know who we haven't heard from as far as the song goes bill carlyle has been sitting here with us throughout and having fun i think you ought to do a song [Applause] [Music] yeah and when we hit the courses i want you all to be so loud that you can't hear me because i'm a horse a little bit harsh yeah how about hitting us a jig [Music] give me that old-time [Music] it was good for our father and it's good [Music] enough for [Music] and it's good enough for me give me that hold on give me that [Music] it's good it was good for the hebrew children [Music] me [Music] [Applause] that's best i never did here you know who we haven't uh we really haven't mentioned and we haven't thanked and that's these guys that are making the music mike johnson les singer glenn duncan dirk johnson jimmy capps randy hardison and david smith all these guys in the band they've done a super job we thank y'all sir there's one person i want to mention that's meant a lot to me and and done a lot for my my uh career and that's tillman franks yep yes yes and freeport louisiana yeah he was johnny was he your manager yeah david houston yeah david houston yeah he's got a lot of great careers i tell you what he was a good manager i remember walking up to johnny horton one time now this is a manager doing his job i said hey johnny how you doing tillman said he's fine thank y'all i think the tape is out and uh this has been a marvelous experience thanks to everybody for the wonderful job that they did just absolutely i'll never forget this experience [Music] me [Music] see [Music] me [Music] is [Music] [Music] ten years [Music] me [Music] let's say [Music] [Applause] [Music] god bless everybody if you've ever had a dream come true then you know exactly how i feel right now i dreamed of two days with some of the pioneers of country music two days to sing their signature songs two days to tell stories on each other two days to laugh together two days to remember two days to reminisce about the golden days of country music the days when your favorite stars loaded into station wagons to make that trek across the country to play for you their fans sometimes they'd be at the high school gym sometimes at the national guard armory or the fairground but they would always come and they would always entertain thanks for joining us i hope you've had as much fun watching as we've had doing it god bless you thank you i sure you have been on that road yes look what happened to my glasses look at that i don't know like knock them over let's get together [Music] [Music] that was fun a lot of fun a great experience you

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Published: Fri Jul 23 2021