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Speaker 2: Glad you're here with us at the Country Music Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame Museum this morning.

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Speaker 3: Well, Paul Kingsbury, Managing editor of the Country.

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Speaker 1: Music Hall of Fame, I am so grateful to be

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Speaker 1: here with you.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna have fun. We're gonna take a walk

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Speaker 2: through country music history with some nice side trips. The

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Speaker 2: first side trip we're going to start is our exhibit

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Speaker 2: on a Country Music Hall of Fame member, famous Grand

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Speaker 2: ol Opry star Bill Anderson, who has been a force

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Speaker 2: in country music since the late nineteen fifties. And you

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Speaker 2: can see Bill work closely with us. You can see

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Speaker 2: all the photos he shared with us in here of

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Speaker 2: him with his band, him as a young high school

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Speaker 2: pitching star in Georgia. And you can see how we

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Speaker 2: do these things. When we feature a Country Music Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame member like Bill Anderson, you get all of

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Speaker 2: this interesting memorabilia. His first album that he did for

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Speaker 2: a deca record. It's the typewriter that he used when

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Speaker 2: he was doing songwriting, lyrics and answering fan mail, guitars,

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Speaker 2: Ie popping costumes owned by Bill Anderson.

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Speaker 3: Paul Ie popping costumes as an understatement.

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Speaker 1: I love these colors. Here this stage, where is a

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Speaker 2: And here we've got one that's a bright green with

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Speaker 2: Because of course, Bill Anderson is an amazing songwriter who's

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Speaker 2: written hits for everybody, including gave Connie Smith her first hit,

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Speaker 2: Goodness Graces, Brad Paisley, and Alison Kraus Whiskey Lullaby. I mean,

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Speaker 2: Bill Anderson has written for everybody.

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Speaker 1: How would I look in the purple outfit?

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Speaker 2: Just very dapper, very dapper, looks just about your size.

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Speaker 2: You and Bill Anderson are close.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing.

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Speaker 2: And because Bill was so instrumental in Connie Smith's early career,

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Speaker 2: We've got a costume, a beautiful dress from Connie Smith

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Speaker 2: see some of Bill's sports memorab Billy, he's a huge

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Speaker 2: baseball fan, big Atlanta, bravest baseball fan because he's from Georgia, and.

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Speaker 1: He embraced the nickname Hillbilly Well.

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Speaker 2: I would say Billy and Well early, but eventually he

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Speaker 2: got the nickname Whispering Bill because he has that breathy

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Speaker 1: I won't call him hill Billy.

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Speaker 2: active as a songwriter, as an artist. You can see

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Speaker 2: him regularly on the Grand Ole Opry. So this is

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Speaker 1: And where's he living now.

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Speaker 2: It's here in Nashville, Yeah, yeah, And he was very

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Speaker 2: generous with the exhibit and has been proud to take

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Speaker 1: Well, he should be proud to be here, all right.

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Speaker 2: You see, we have good crowds today in the museum,

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Speaker 2: and we're gonna I'll tell you what. We'll take a

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Speaker 2: And just as with the Bill Anderson exhibit.

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Speaker 1: She was very cooperative.

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Speaker 2: So get this. She was singing with the family band

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Speaker 2: There's a photo of Martina. Look at her, She's the

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Speaker 2: This is one of her childhood stage costumes. Look how

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Speaker 2: of kas Is called the Penetrators, And she said she

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Speaker 3: So, Paul, when an artist you know, collaborates with you

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Speaker 1: And you know, goes back.

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Speaker 1: Got it.

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Speaker 2: So this is our permanent exhibit, sing Me Back Home,

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Speaker 2: he used on the stage at Grand and Opry. He's

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Speaker 2: now a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: The Blue Sky Boys who played guitar and mandolin. Wow.

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Speaker 1: And then we just move on through history.

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Speaker 2: have noticed over here, Buzz. That is to show people

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Speaker 2: the core of what we do. The Country Music Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame has exposed our archives. There is our audio

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is the premiere research and collection center

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Speaker 2: country music recordings in our library of any place in

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Speaker 2: the world, more than two hundred thousand from Edison cylinders

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Speaker 2: But we've got more than five hundred thousand photographs, films

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Speaker 2: He was able to access some of it. Now, I'll

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Speaker 2: I did that as a freelancer. But I do know

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Speaker 2: for some things they came to the Country Music Hall

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Speaker 2: only repository they went to, but some things came.

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Speaker 1: Got it here. What was that experience like for you.

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Speaker 2: So here's the people you may have heard of. Buzz.

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Speaker 2: Here is a costume from Hank Williams, the great Hank Williams,

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Speaker 2: along with his boots. Eddie Arnold many pearls costume is

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Speaker 1: So all of greatness.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it really, it really is. And we've moved through history.

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Speaker 2: Walking along this corridor, we see people from the nineteen fifties.

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Speaker 2: Hank Snow, Lefty Frazelle has that fringe costume right there.

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Speaker 2: Here there's one of Buck's red, White and Blue guitars, sure,

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Speaker 1: It's awesome. It must have been quite a thrill for

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Speaker 2: Well with Buck. And you know what he's he's taller

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Speaker 2: So two of our famous cars here, Elvis Presley's solid

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Speaker 2: ever seen this buzz. It's really something you can tell

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Speaker 2: Like web Pierce was right. Yeah, web Pierce would routinely

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Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are often unsung heroes, they.

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Speaker 3: When did you know in your life that you were

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Speaker 1: What a grateful, grateful thing.

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Speaker 2: You probably will have some questions, but we wanted to

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Speaker 4: On the Pacific Coast, there are fewer shackles on tradition,

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Speaker 1: Do you know?

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Speaker 1: Chris Hillman the Birds, Yeah, Chris Hillman before he had

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Speaker 2: But yeah, his music lives on now. I know you

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Speaker 1: He's a big fan of that one for sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and there he is, there's Rick with his band

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Speaker 3: So I love this photo here on the wall of

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So one reason why we featured the Tribudour here

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Speaker 1: Buzz I would look good in that one. All right,

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Speaker 1: What was his mother responsible for white out out?

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Speaker 2: You use it to in the old days? Old guys

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Speaker 2: And so he was kind of a wasn't his trust fund?

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Speaker 2: I get? But he he came from a lot of money.

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Speaker 2: But you know what, he didn't act like it. He

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Speaker 1: That's right. Can we get Paul with T shirt for

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Speaker 1: winning the trivia question?

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Speaker 2: I agree?

440
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Speaker 1: Excuse me?

441
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 2: So here's a photo of the birds. Chris Helman down there,

442
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,920
Speaker 2: his buddies and the birds on up top.

443
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,399
Speaker 1: Wow, this is interesting. So Chris Willman took this picture.

444
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 2: Huh wow, Well it's so he owns it. Somebody gave

445
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,160
Speaker 2: it to Chris probably, But there he is. There's Roger mcgwinn,

446
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 2: there's Jane Clark, David Crosby many people know him from

447
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Speaker 2: Crosbie Stills, Dashing Youngs, Michael Clark on drums, and Roger mcgunn.

448
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 1: God love him still out playing these.

449
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 2: Oh he's amazing. He's amazing.

450
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sweetheart too.

451
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, Solco to.

452
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Speaker 1: That here too.

453
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 2: We move on through history and you see things like

454
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Speaker 2: graand Parsons, Grand Parsons show his protege, Emmy Lou Harris,

455
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Speaker 2: her costume, her famous guitar with the Inlaiden Rose.

456
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Speaker 1: People.

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Speaker 3: I remember when I first heard of Grand Parson, spoke

458
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,880
Speaker 3: about him in almost like reverential terms.

459
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Speaker 1: You know, there was like a mystique about him, for sure,

460
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: and I.

461
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 2: Think it was I mean, Emmy Lout talks that way

462
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Speaker 2: about him. It's it's that he was one of the

463
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 2: first to get there and say there's a way to

464
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 2: pull country and rock together that has integrity for both. Yes,

465
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Speaker 2: And he was so passionate about country music and he

466
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 2: instilled that passion in Emmy Lou Harris, for sure, and

467
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 2: she carried the torch.

468
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: After he passed and she still carried it.

469
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 2: She still is, She still is. So stuff we've got,

470
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Speaker 2: We've got wonderful memorabilia here from the nitty gritty dirt

471
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 2: bands as well as Poco. You see Jeff hannahcost stage

472
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:21,719
Speaker 2: costume here. Richie Furey of Buffalo Springfield and later Poco,

473
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Speaker 2: there's one of his stage costumes.

474
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Speaker 3: You know, what was so interesting about this, this music

475
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 3: of this era and all many of these artists, but

476
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 3: in particular we talk about Poco, nitty gritty dirt.

477
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Speaker 1: Band coming out of the UH what was called.

478
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Speaker 3: Ao R radio album oriented rock where I started.

479
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,360
Speaker 1: These bands became integral to that format.

480
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 2: They did, they did, Yeah, I mean, I think this

481
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 2: music that we feature here for a lot of baby

482
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 2: boomers is some of the soundtrack of their lives, you know,

483
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Speaker 2: And and it turned a lot some of them on

484
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 2: the country music, turned some of them on to different

485
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 2: kinds of rock music.

486
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Speaker 1: Well, it's funny.

487
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 3: So there's people to this day that still go when

488
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 3: you talk about country, well, I don't know if I

489
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 3: like country. And then I did this to someone the

490
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 3: other day. I said, oh, let me ask you a question.

491
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 3: Do you like this band called the Eagles? And they

492
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 3: were like yeah. I said, well, then consider yourself someone

493
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Speaker 3: who likes country.

494
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 2: You know, the Eagles hit the country charts as well

495
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,479
Speaker 2: as the pop charts. They took a lot from country music,

496
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 2: and of course they're featured in here. We get this case.

497
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 2: We've got things that pertain to Linda Ronstat, to the Eagles,

498
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 2: to songwriter J. D. Salther, who wrote a lot with

499
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Speaker 2: the Eagles because he's a good, good friend of theirs.

500
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Speaker 3: Well, look at here this picture from Joshua Tree National

501
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 3: Park of the Eagles, photo by Henry Dilts. I had

502
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Speaker 3: Henry on taking a walk when I went that one.

503
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 3: Henry told me the story about they were up until

504
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 3: two in the morning, I think at probably the Troubadour

505
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Speaker 3: I'm blessing.

506
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 1: And let's just say they were getting into some.

507
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 3: Mischief, you know, okay, a little bit of hallucinogens possibly,

508
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 3: and they drove out there and he described it in

509
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 3: this magical way where it just sounded like they just

510
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 3: had pure joy.

511
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: Out there, laughing, being silly, taking photos.

512
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 3: And Henry's key was he wasn't really a photographer in

513
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Speaker 3: the true sense.

514
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: He was just a friend of theirs.

515
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 2: Well, he was a great photographer.

516
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: He still is a great photographer, sure is well.

517
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 2: And so some of the song manuscripts we have here

518
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 2: from J. D. Souder are of big hits that the

519
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 2: Eagles hat new kid in town. We've got the manuscript

520
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 2: up there a heartache tonight, the best of my love.

521
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 2: The song manuscripts are right there in front of him.

522
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 3: Oh man, some of my favorites. This is a great

523
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 3: exhibit to right there pickets your breath away all that music.

524
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really does, it really doesn't. And here was

525
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 2: a telecaster guitar. Here's a telecaster guitar that Bernie ledon

526
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 2: of the Eagles, played on a lot of their hits.

527
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 2: And that whole mechanism back there is something we call

528
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:25,239
Speaker 2: a b bender which allows a guitar player by just

529
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 2: pulling down it on the strap, It pulls a mechanism

530
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 2: that pulls a string and gives you a little bit

531
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,719
Speaker 2: of a sound of a steel guitar on a regular

532
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 2: electric guitar. Now, the guy who pioneered that was Clarence

533
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: White that we talked about earlier. But Bernie got into

534
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 2: that sound too.

535
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: You musician at all.

536
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 2: I play guitar, yeah, Hell, I don't play guitar like

537
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: Bernie's Light, but you play. Yeah. And now we're carrying

538
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 2: it forward into the eighties and you see things like

539
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 2: the Desert Rose Band, which Chris Hillman led. Chris Hillman

540
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 2: that we saw back in those bluegrass bands back there.

541
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: Who was in the birds? Yep, Chris Holman led the

542
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 2: Desert Rose Band. There he is on stage with his

543
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 2: guitar player, John Jorgenson. Rosie Flores, big in the LA

544
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,840
Speaker 2: scene in the nineteen eighties and still going strong. I

545
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 2: just saw her at a local festival. She was great.

546
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Speaker 1: Oh wow.

547
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 2: Some of those bands that some people were calling cow punk,

548
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 2: like Rank and File and Loan Justice are featured here.

549
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 2: Big in the nineteen eighties, Dwight Yoakam the Course broke

550
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 2: out of LA in a big way.

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Speaker 1: I always loved the Lone Justice and Maria McKees.

552
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah, she did a nice video. We did

553
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,320
Speaker 2: more than forty hours of video interviews his research for

554
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 2: this exhibit, but also we're showing those portions of those

555
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 2: interviews on video screens around the exhibit, and we've got

556
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Speaker 2: touchscreen interactive so people can access some of that stuff.

557
00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: That's great.

558
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 2: So you could spend a couple of hours.

559
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: He's gonna get lost in here. Yeah, great way.

560
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 2: So shall we walk back through some more of country

561
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 2: music history?

562
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: Perfect?

563
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 2: All right. So there's a big old whalone on the

564
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 2: wall from the nineteen seventies, and now we start to

565
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: hit we're back in the flow of country music history,

566
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 2: and we're featuring people like Glenn Campbell and Ray Charles,

567
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 2: who was recently inducted in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

568
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 2: Jeanie c Riley people remember her from Hartmon Valley PTA

569
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: and back in the corner. That's a big old Johnny

570
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 2: cash suit.

571
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: Oh love that.

572
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 2: Roger Miller in two years won eleven Grammys.

573
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: You probably know about this.

574
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 2: There are the eleven Grammys he won in two years.

575
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 2: Nobody's ever won that many Grammys in two years, but

576
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 2: Roger Miller did.

577
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 3: He was a big star John Hart for you talk

578
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 3: about unsung this guy was, didn't he come out of

579
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 3: the great Glenn Campbell sort of camp he was.

580
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 2: He was on the Glenn Campbell Show and was part

581
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 2: there a team of comedy writers along with Steve Martin.

582
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 2: He says, or he said, he's passed away. John said

583
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 2: he didn't actually contribute all that many ideas, but he

584
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 2: was part of the writing staff. And also you know

585
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 2: when the show would open up, the guy playing the

586
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 2: banjo on the Glen Campbell Good Time Hour, that was John.

587
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: I love it.

588
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, So he's featured here. And he was a great

589
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 2: songwriter artist, wrote Show on My Mind, which was the

590
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 2: first big hit for Glenn Campbell, which.

591
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Speaker 3: And that group of musicians, I mean they were just

592
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 3: they were big stars in that era right because TV.

593
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, TV did launch a lot of country stars.

594
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 2: And I mean over here you see some Dolly Parton,

595
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 2: Tanya Tucker, Tammy Wynette.

596
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Dolly for a second show.

597
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 3: She is one of the most amazing individuals like ever.

598
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 2: She is so brilliant. She's done so much. You know,

599
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 2: there are people who kind of know of her as

600
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 2: a personality who don't realize what an incredible songwriter DOLLI

601
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 2: Partner is. I mean, people who really know country music

602
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 2: know that, but there are many people who still don't

603
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 2: know that. Dolly Barton wrote I Will Always.

604
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: Love you of course of nature.

605
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 2: Oh she is, yeah, and she does great and good

606
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 2: with her philanthropy. You know, she gave money to COVID

607
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 2: research at Vanderbilt Medical Center here in Nashville. I think

608
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 2: it was more than a million dollars. Yeah, And she

609
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 2: is really a wonderful person, has been a good friend

610
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 2: in the Country Music Hall of Fame over the years.

611
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: So talk about the artists and.

612
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 3: How they support the Country Music Hall of Fame, They really,

613
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 3: I mean like they do financially right.

614
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 2: Well, So I would say the main way that they

615
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: support us financially is periodically artists will have a fundraising

616
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 2: concert for US Nashville or New York or LA. And

617
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 2: we've also recently done this in Dallas. They call it,

618
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 2: we call it All for the Hall, and artists like

619
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 2: Vince Gill and Keith Urban kind of kicked off this

620
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 2: whole thing of we're going to donate our time, We're

621
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 2: going to do a multi artist concert and the proceeds

622
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 2: will go to the Country Music Hall of Fame. So

623
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 2: they've been doing that for us for several years, and

624
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 2: it really is an easier way for them to go

625
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 2: because all of these people, these artists give so much

626
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 2: to so many charities. This way, you know, it's not

627
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 2: like they're writing a check for the Hall of Fame,

628
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 2: and somebody says, well, you're writing a check for the

629
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, why can't you write a check for me.

630
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 2: They're donating their time if people want to buy those tickets,

631
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 2: and they have, they've sold out consistently. That's that's how

632
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 2: they raise money for us.

633
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 4: Got it?

634
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 2: Well, you've heard of folks like these, Friendy, Freddie Fender,

635
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 2: Kenny Rodgers, dot E West.

636
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: Well, can we look at this Nashville skylight?

637
00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 2: Absolutely all right?

638
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: This is near and dear period for me, certainly, so

639
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,919
Speaker 1: this guy, I think you've heard this guy. I think

640
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: Bob Dylan is somebody that we've heard of.

641
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 2: Well, I was here some years ago when you had.

642
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 3: This special or the whole had the special exhibit.

643
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: With Bob and Johnny Cash.

644
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, well yeah, Dylan Cash and the Nashville Katz.

645
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, it was really cool.

646
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 2: I'm glad you liked that. I'm glad you liked that.

647
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 2: But I don't know if I even showed you in

648
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 2: our Country Rock exhibit was but you see that photo

649
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 2: there of Chris Hillman, Chris Ethriche and Graham Parsons and

650
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 2: sneaky Pete Kleinew from the Flying Burrito Brothers. We have

651
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 2: three of those four costumes on display and that exhibit

652
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 2: over there.

653
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: So when Bob came down here, he instantly just seemed

654
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: to just be comfortable. He was welcome.

655
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you saw that exhibit and you kind

656
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 2: of read through it. So his producer at the time,

657
00:35:58,560 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 2: Bob Johnston.

658
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,760
Speaker 1: Is it rolling Bob exactly?

659
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 2: Bob convinced Bob Dylan to give Nashville a try after

660
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 2: Bob Dylan met Charlie McCoy, a member of the Country

661
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 2: Music Hall of Fame, and Charlie played some things for

662
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 2: Bob up in New York and played on a session

663
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 2: for him and Bob. Bob said, that's pretty good. Bob

664
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 2: Johnston said, there are bunches of guys who pick like

665
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 2: that in Nashville. Let's take you down there. So this

666
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 2: first big album that he recorded Nashville is Blonde on

667
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 2: Blonde in sixty six, huge hit album, right, oh yeah,

668
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 2: huge hit album with Essential I would say, yeah, yeah,

669
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 2: and so yeah, Bob was easily convinced that these guys

670
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 2: know what they're doing.

671
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 3: Am I mistaken that he have some collaboration during that

672
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 3: period with Charlie Daniels as part.

673
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 2: Of Oh Yeah, Charlie Daniels played on a couple of

674
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 2: those Bob Dylan albums. Yeah yeah. And in fact, we

675
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:57,919
Speaker 2: can go right back around the corner and will show

676
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 2: you a telecaster guitar that Charlie Daniels played on Bob

677
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 2: Dylan's sessions. It's right here here it is.

678
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: Okay, look at that. Yeah wow, he played.

679
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: So he played this on Dylan's Nashville Skyline and self portrait.

680
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Charlie Daniels guitar.

681
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: People, I think forget about his accomplished playing.

682
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 2: Is a great, great guitar player, great fiddler, great entertainer,

683
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 2: all around intertationally.

684
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 3: Okay, well, we got a guy we're looking at who,

685
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 3: like God, what an incredible force.

686
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: He has become the rock about him.

687
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 2: So we are stepping right here into our major exhibit

688
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 2: on Chris Stapleton, who, since he broke out big in

689
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, has been a major force in country and

690
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 2: rock music for sure. I mean, there's so many rock

691
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 2: fans who love Chris Stapleton because he brings a real

692
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 2: grint and fire to what he does.

693
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: He's amazing.

694
00:37:56,080 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 3: I was fortunate, you know, when the country radio Seminar

695
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 3: has the Universal Music Group event at the Rhyman.

696
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: To see Chris there.

697
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 3: And I guess I would describe it as jaw dropping.

698
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean in so many ways. I mean,

699
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 2: what a voice, what a great guitar player.

700
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: I mean.

701
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 2: The interesting thing is and as people go through this

702
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 2: exhibit and look to read about it, they'll see that Chris.

703
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 2: For many years, for more than ten years, he was

704
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,280
Speaker 2: known mainly as a songwriter in Nashville, and he wrote

705
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 2: big hits for people like Josh Turner and Thomas Rhett,

706
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,320
Speaker 2: I mean, Darius Rucker. He wrote lots and lots of hits,

707
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 2: but lots of people also said he's such a great performer,

708
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 2: surely there's a market for him as an artist. And eventually,

709
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 2: when he recorded his album Traveler and it came out

710
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen, that was the big turning point for

711
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 2: him that he finally captured the sound that was in

712
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 2: his head.

713
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: You know, he's an amazing performer, thank god.

714
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 2: And so you can see this a very detailed exhibit

715
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 2: on Chris Stapleton, and he and his team were wonderful

716
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 2: and really emptying out the closets. Oh my goodness, we've

717
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 2: got guitars throughout his whole life, costumes, other instruments, amps,

718
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 2: song manuscripts, awards, and as we do with all our exhibits,

719
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 2: we tell sort of the story of how he got

720
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 2: to be who he is.

721
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,879
Speaker 3: Do you get a sense with an artist like Chris

722
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 3: Stapleton that, I mean we're really just seeing the beginning

723
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 3: of what he's got.

724
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: To do with him.

725
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 2: I think there's a lot he could accomplish. Yeah, I

726
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 2: mean he's he's been doing various kind of guest appearances

727
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 2: on other artists, you know, on an R and B

728
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 2: and rock artists albums, and yeah, there he could take

729
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 2: this in so many directions. He kind of pulls so

730
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 2: many people together across the boundaries of music because he

731
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 2: crosses the boundary.

732
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, love them, So give us some folks.

733
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 2: I know you'll you'll know about You've seen them on stage,

734
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 2: You've heard the records. Mary chape and Carpenter, Pam Tillis,

735
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 2: trishear Wood, Patty Lovelace, Alan Jackson. Down there in the exhibit,

736
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 2: I know you recognize that costume.

737
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: Buzz oh boy. That is Shanaia.

738
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 2: Shania in her leopard print outfit with barebelly. That's what

739
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 2: she did. Yeah, Garth Brooks, Vince Gill.

740
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 3: So what do you make of where Vincent Garth are

741
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 3: today in their careers?

742
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 2: Oh? Well, I mean neither of them has to do

743
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 2: it anymore, and that they've kind of established themselves as

744
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 2: amazing artists. They both recorded, you know, more than a

745
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 2: dozen albums that are great and have done well. I'll

746
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 2: say that they're both still at the peak of their game.

747
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 2: We had an amazing a couple of weeks ago, an

748
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 2: amazing kickoff concert for the LA Country Rock Exhibit, and

749
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 2: Vince sang, Oh my gosh, he's singing better than he

750
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 2: sang twenty years ago. Everybody was saying it, and I

751
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 2: was fortunate enough to attend to Garth Brooks concert in

752
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 2: Las Vegas this summer, you know, in the Dome Stadium

753
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 2: that the Raiders play in. Oh my gosh.

754
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: Yeah.

755
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 2: Garth is older than sixty and he the last time

756
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 2: I had seen a full concert of him live was

757
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 2: in the nineties. He has more energy now than he

758
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 2: had in the nineteen nineties. He did the full, more

759
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,879
Speaker 2: than two hour show. Tricia came on and sang with him.

760
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 2: He did acoustic set. So I guess your answer your

761
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 2: question these guys can do what they want to do.

762
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 2: They still have it, they still got it, They've still

763
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 2: got a following. And I think it's really they're not

764
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: doing it for the money. They're doing it for the

765
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:54,800
Speaker 2: love of the music.

766
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: Right. Well, I was going to get to that.

767
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 3: So, yeah, that's really permeates the entire you know, sort

768
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 3: of country scene.

769
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: Really. Of course, it's a commitment to the music and.

770
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 3: It's a living, but it's a you know, they're driven

771
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 3: by the love.

772
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: Of the performance, the love of the music.

773
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 2: I think a lot of them are. I really believe that.

774
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 2: I'll give you a case in point. So, the Grand

775
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 2: Ole Opry is still going longest running radio show in

776
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 2: the United States since nineteen twenty five. Of many many

777
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 2: of these stars we're talking about are members of the

778
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 2: Grand Ole Opry and appear from time to time. They

779
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 2: don't get paid the normal thousands of dollars when they

780
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 2: appear on the Opry. They get paid union scale. They

781
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 2: get paid a very small amount. They do it for

782
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 2: the love of the history, the love of the tradition.

783
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 2: You know, when you see Vince appear there, Garth, Alan Jackson,

784
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 2: Patty Loveless, all these people, it's because they love the music.

785
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 3: I saw Garth a couple of years back when CRS

786
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 3: had a bunch of radio folks in the I can't

787
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 3: remember the bar, but little Little Bar performance on Broadway

788
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:10,720
Speaker 3: and oh my goodness, what an event.

789
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: Now back to Vince.

790
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 5: Do you think him now being an Eagle, do you

791
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 5: think that makes him, you know, even a stronger performer

792
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 5: just by being around other people.

793
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 1: Maybe he admires, you know.

794
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 2: I don't know if it makes him stronger. I'm sure

795
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 2: you know, he seems like the kind of guy who's

796
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 2: always learning and always wanting to build. I mean, it's

797
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 2: like he hasn't stopped in his progress. My guess. Okay,

798
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 2: I'm prejudiced, but I think Vince is probably teaching those

799
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 2: guys if you.

800
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: Thinks, okay, there you go, I love that, and I

801
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: they'd be willing.

802
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 2: I think they would be well, yeah, well, you know,

803
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 2: this whole section here is on, you know, just bringing

804
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 2: us into the two thousands. You've got Brad Paisley and

805
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 2: Big and Rich and Toby Keith and Jamie Johnson featured

806
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 2: over here in Rascal Flats and Darius Rutger is in

807
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 2: the case over there with a video of him doing

808
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 2: wagon Wheel. This is the outfit that Darius Rucker wore

809
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:16,399
Speaker 2: when he did Wagon Wheel. Eric Church, Now, I don't

810
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 2: know if you have time for this buzz, but we

811
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:22,840
Speaker 2: have a whole exhibit that we change out annually every March.

812
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 2: It's called American Currents and it's the it's our view

813
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 2: back at the previous year. So I don't know, do

814
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 2: you have time to walk through?

815
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: Go walk through?

816
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 2: So this is our take on significant things that happen

817
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 2: in country music in twenty twenty one. So we opened

818
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 2: this in March twenty twenty two, and you can see.

819
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,479
Speaker 2: We like to do this part of the exhibit, which

820
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 2: is we call Unbroken Circle, and the idea is to

821
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 2: show influences back and forth. Leanne Womack influencing Lady Wilson,

822
00:44:55,560 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 2: Keith Urban influencing Brelan. They've worked together, Britney Spence and

823
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 2: Reva McIntyre, Riva being a big influence on Britney, both

824
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 2: really big, great singers.

825
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: It's critical because this is how it's always been in Nashville.

826
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:11,760
Speaker 1: The influence part.

827
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And we do this video thing where we

828
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 2: kind of recap highlights from the year. This whole section

829
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 2: is we show people, what were the biggest selling albums

830
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 2: of the year, who sold the most concert tickets, who

831
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 2: had the biggest singles. Yep, So that's what this is

832
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 2: all about. And then you'll see a number of exhibit

833
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 2: cases here, just various folks.

834
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: Who had big years.

835
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,280
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, Taylor Swept of course, re released

836
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 2: some of her early albums and brand new Taylor's versions

837
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 2: which were me hit all over again.

838
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: You know, talk about a force of nature.

839
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 2: Oh, she absolutely iss Osbourne. You know, one thing we

840
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,439
Speaker 2: do in American Currents is we have a big tent.

841
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 2: So an artist like Alison Russ, who I think a

842
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 2: lot of people would say is more Americana than strict

843
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 2: mainstream country. We include that. These guys, John Hyatt, Jerry Douglas,

844
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 2: big chat you know. But they recorded an RCA studio

845
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 2: b they did, which is you know, one of the

846
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:18,400
Speaker 2: properties that we run and allow people to visit this

847
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 2: famous recording studio that Chad Atkins ran for many years.

848
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: Big big fan of those guys.

849
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 2: Alison Krause featured.

850
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 1: She's out with Robert plant The Oh.

851
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're amazing together.

852
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 3: Let's talk about this, gentleman, What an amazing story Jimmy Allen.

853
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 2: You know, Jimmy Allen was living out of his car

854
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 2: at one point, you know, trying to pull it together.

855
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 2: And what a great talent Jimmy Allen is. And you

856
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 2: know he's he's won now significant awards in country music,

857
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 2: you know, the ACMs New Mail Artist of the Year,

858
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 2: CMA's New Artists of the Year. Yeah, he's really breaking out.

859
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 2: I think I love Itnion Yeah, consistently winning CMA and

860
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: ACM awards. Billy Strings Chris Stampleton. Of course we just

861
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 2: passed his exhibit, but we featured him here before we

862
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:16,760
Speaker 2: open the other. Can't deny Luke Coombs. What a major

863
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 2: force he's become country music.

864
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: This is amazing.

865
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 3: So Paul, last question, how lucky every day do you

866
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 3: feel when you wake up with the job that you have?

867
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 2: Oh, I get to have fun every day. It's a

868
00:47:32,560 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 2: it's a dream job. It's a dream job.

869
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: You know.

870
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 2: The people are great, the artists are great. They are

871
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 2: generally a dream to work with. And what a gas

872
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 2: it is to walk into the museum. Is we are

873
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 2: walking today? It sees so many people just their faces

874
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 2: almost pressed up against the glass, like I need to

875
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 2: know more about this artist who means so much to me. Yeah,

876
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 2: I love seeing that. Well, this is great, I love

877
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 2: seeing that. Now I have to take you into the

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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame itself, right, yes.

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Speaker 1: We have to walk into that.

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Speaker 2: So I've worked in both the old original Country Music

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00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame building that opened in nineteen sixty seven

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00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 2: on Music Row and closed in two thousand and one.

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Speaker 2: And I've worked and I work in this new building

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Speaker 2: which we opened in two thousand and one. And I

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Speaker 2: can tell you the old Hall of Fame hallowed area

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00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,399
Speaker 2: was not as impressive as what we're about to walk

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Speaker 2: into now. And maybe rather than me brag on what

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00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 2: our Hall of Fame rotunda looks like, maybe you, buzz

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00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 2: could tell the listeners what you feel as you walk

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Speaker 2: into Okay.

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Speaker 1: You got it, Yeah, the hallowed halls.

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00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,479
Speaker 2: So what do you feel and what do you see

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00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:52,479
Speaker 2: when you walk in here?

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I'm struck by the great line

895
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Speaker 3: of will the Circle Be Unbroken, which.

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Speaker 2: Is famous Carter Family song.

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00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:06,240
Speaker 1: One of the most amazing songs ever.

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Speaker 3: But then, of course, I mean it feels really, I

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Speaker 3: dare say, almost like church.

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Speaker 2: Yep, Well that's kind of the feel we were going for.

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00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 2: You you've got natural light pouring in in this circular,

902
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 2: huge circular room, and we've got the plaques of all

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00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 2: of the one hundred and forty nine Country Music Hall

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00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:33,439
Speaker 2: of Fame members on the wall. But you'll notice they're

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00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 2: not organized in alphabetical or chronological order. They're organized randomly,

906
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 2: because that's our way of saying, everyone who enters, who

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00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,240
Speaker 2: becomes a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame,

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00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:49,919
Speaker 2: is equal with everyone else. They're all equally important. They're

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00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 2: all Country Music Hall of Famers. The three newest members

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00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 2: of the Country Music Hall of Fame are on the

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00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 2: wall back here, close to this famous mural The Sources

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Speaker 2: of Country Music, painted by Thomas hart Binton in nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventy five. So the three newest members of the Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame our record Executive Joe Gilanti, the late Keith Whitley,

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Speaker 2: and the Killer Jerry Lee Lewis. Oh, look at that,

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00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:21,720
Speaker 2: and isn't that fantastic? The artist captured him playing his piano,

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00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 2: which he plays like no one else.

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00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: Wow, tremendous.

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00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's there's a there's a sense of spirit here.

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00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: There's a sense of.

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00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 3: Calm, certainly, but respect for everything that's you know, that's

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Speaker 3: been around us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad to hear you say that. That's That's

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00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 2: what we're trying to convey here is these are the

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00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 2: greats of country music. You know, we want to honor them.

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Speaker 2: We want people to feel like they can commune with

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Speaker 2: their spirit here conveyed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good conveyed, Paul.

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Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for taking a walk through the Country

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Speaker 3: Music Hall of Fame, and with your vantage point in particular,

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Speaker 3: it was very special.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for allowing me to be part of it.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was a blast, buzz I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Taking a Walk with Buzznight is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 3: or wherever you get your podcasts.