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Hey, it's Mom Picket. We
are on our way to the legendary Broken

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Spoke. Come on, let's get
out the truck and head inside. Come

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on, it's going side, getting
ready for another Tale from the Broken Spoke.

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Hi, there, it's Mom Picket. You enjoyed our conversation with Terry

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McBride. It's been a great conversation
so far. Well, here it is

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the part you've been waiting for.
Part three of her conversation with Terry McBride

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on Tails from the Broken Spoke.
Yeah, those guys I've always looked up.

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I mean, my grandparents meant so
much to me. They helped raise

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me, and I have such respect
for older generation that had all this wisdom

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because they did and I respected it. You know. That's the only thing

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that kind of kept me in check, kept me in line. My parents

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split when I was in the eighth
grade and my dad was on the road.

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So I had this house next door
to my grandparents, which I basically

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had a home all the way through
freshman year to myself. If you can

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imagine, I mean, we we'd
rehearse the band there, we'd have parties

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there. You know, my grandparents
did call the cops on me one time,

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but uh, just to teach me
a lesson, and you had it

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coming. Yeah, I had it
coming for sure. We're practicing, we're

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playing, so it's getting late,
we're playing loud, it's getting late,

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and all of a sudden, there's
a knock on the drawer. Hey,

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hold it, everybody, And I
went hello, and the other side of

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the door with this cop that we
knew because we would have him been our

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dances to security. He said,
it's the heat, he said, And

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we knew this guy. He goes, hey, man, he goes,

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we got a complaint, I said, a complaint. He goes, like

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next door. My grandparents had called
the cop. Yeah, just to kind

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of teach me a less chain little
bit. Yeah, I was ignoring them,

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and I wasn't. I was getting
a little you know, full of

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myself. You know, we were
in this popular band and I could do

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I thought whatever I wanted. Then
I had to realize I need to respect

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them. My parents, grandparents got
up at four point thirty in the morning,

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you know, every day of their
lives. And my dad was my

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grandfather was a cowboy. He was
he was a rodeo guy. And then

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after rodeo, what do you do. He became a bus driver for a

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Greyhound. He he would take these
like a minor league baseball players all the

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way to New York City and back. And he did that for a lot,

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a lot of his life. And
that's what he was doing. I

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went with him. He would catch
the bus in Gatesville, Texas. I

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went over there for thirty in the
morning. I'm getting up. He'd make

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this route like up to Abilene and
they were delivering mail and packages. You

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know, that's what the bus did. Sure back in the day, they

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were part of the way before there
was a FedEx and all that stuff,

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and you know what we have today. It was part and unfortunately because of

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that, you'd make forty seven stops
between here and Abilene and Amarillo wherever you're

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going. It would take for a
full day to get up there and back,

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you know. But it was interesting. And then he raised horses and

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cutting horses all my life. But
he was just an old cowboy trying to

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find his way. But my grandparents, they really they felt so you know,

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not guilty, but they just felt
bad for me because my parents had

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such a bad split and they tried
to do everything for me. It's a

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great line. Just an old cowboy
trying to find his way. But that's

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a great time, man. I
bet you can sell that to George.

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Well, you don't sell him,
you lease them. People always say you

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have how do you sell a song? But you don't. You can.

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We're gonna partner with you on this
one. Yeah, yeah, that's good

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money. Remember that I may not
so uh you have mcbriden the ride again?

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Is it the original? It's original
cast. They were here about a

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month ago. We saw that happen. You never talked to each other,

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which is just great. People though
it's so good. We had so much

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fun back in the day. Business
got in the way and really it was

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McBride and the ride, so all
of the spotlight was on me and those

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guys were part of the band.
It made me feel really odd a lot

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of the time, you know,
because interviews like this, you know,

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they might not even want to talk
to those guys, and it's like,

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you know, we are a band, you know, and but now we're

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all grown up, we're all older, and we appreciate what we had and

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we still enjoy what we're doing with
it. You know. Billy Thomas is

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one of my fatally humans but he
has birthday yesterday, turned seventy years old

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yesterday. I will bet he is
just a great singer. I'll talk about

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great stories. Talented and talented.
Here's the story how he even got to

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Nashville by way of Rick Milson,
Rick Nelson and also the he did so

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much more than that Mac Davis as
well when Mack was his superstar. He

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did all those He was at the
MGM when it caught on fire, but

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he was in the band at that
time. But yeah, he's he's just

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and he's he's like a rock drummer
that brings that energy at seventy years old.

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It's shocking to a country sort of
feel, you know. It creates

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so much energy in the band.
Having a drummer like that, the guy

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that can do that high harmony third
part as the other guy in your baby

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playing runs for events. I think
when I saw with Billy Boce does he

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still does that on the side,
that's what he does. I know he

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was I met him. I think
I met him. Think he was picking

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with Emmy when he was in the
Hot band. Yeah, he and Steve

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Fischel. Yeah, when I met
him, and he was just like just

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the greatest cat in the world.
Still exactly the same. He hasn't changed

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in the day I met him,
I knew the same person. He just

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wanted to you know. All I
wanted was Ritt Nelson stories, and he

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had a mess out of Tony Brown
had this idea, you know, he's

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he signed me, and then he
invited Kathy and I my wife to UH

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New Year's even San Antonio, George
Straight, Patty and Vince Gill. And

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he took me in the dressing room
with that show and said, man,

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Terry, here's the deal. I
want to sign you to the label.

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You can be the first act,
but I want you to think about something.

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I want you to consider something.
We need a band for the label.

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We have the Desert Roseman and they're
done. They're it's over for them.

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And he goes, you're a band
guy, you know. He goes,

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you could play bass, you could
sing. We'll build a band around

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your songs. And I thought,
dang, I don't really want to be

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in a band, but I don't
want to continue starving either, you know.

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And Tony Brown was my guy.
I have all the people I met

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in Nashville, he was the one
person I wanted to work with. So

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I thought, this is his suggestion, and this is his lead, maybe

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I better follow it. And he
knows what he's doing, and he knows

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what his track record was, you
know, speaks for himself, and so

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I thought, yeah, he had
just cut that first law I loved record,

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and Ray Herndon was in Lyle's band
and played on those albums. So

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he was making a list of people
that might work out for because that's the

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way he does. If he's putting
a dinner party together, he's putting a

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list together who would be cool to
be at this party. He's always been

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that way because he's a producer,
you know, he's in charge of all

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of it and making it work and
pulling it off. So he knew Billy

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from the Hot Band, of course, and Billy was singing harmony on those

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Vin Skill records that Tony Brown was
produce and so he went, I know

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this guy would be good. I
know that guy would be good. Steve

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Fischel was the original fourth member,
and then we we let Steve be the

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co producer and the band just became
the three of us as far as the

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partnership of it. But and that's
how it happened. He introduced us.

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I met Ray at the Paramount Theater
here with Lyle, went and hung out

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with Ray. We liked each other. I met Billy at the Elliston Place

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soda shop. We went down,
had our first meeting. We hit it

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off, and Billy was so kind. He's like, Terry, these songs

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you're writing, man, you know, Tony's played them for me, and

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I'm so excited about it. And
so it was just a great feeling,

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you know. Then we started rehearsing
and went over and rehearsed, and Tony

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would just bring these people through all
day long, managers, promoters, lawyers,

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you know, whatever we might need
in the future, and we'd play

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the four same four or five songs
over for everybody. Then they'd run them

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out, run some more people in. We went, we're off, we're

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doing something here. Something might happen, you know. I think that first

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time I heard y'all live, I
think it was in Chicago or somewhere in

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the Midwest, somewhere in the Midwest, and you know, because I knew

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Terry from home. Was it The
Cubby Bear maybe or no. No,

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it's like a big theater. I
think y'all were opening for Lyle or something

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was an early tit. I remember
we were, you know, whatever,

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like playing a club just a few
whatever doors down or a mile away or

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something, and we came in and
just walked into the theater and no ship.

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I thought it was canned music and
it was sound check and I'm walking

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towards the theater to open the door
because we knew Billy, so we're gonna

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go next with Billy and Terry from
home. And we came in. I

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was just like, whatever that is. That sounds fantastic, and then somebody

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went hold it, it's and I
just went, oh my gosh, this

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is going on right now. That's
not a record, this is this is

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just these guys at sound check.
And it was so cool and I went,

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yeah, they're gonna have some big
hits. This was damn and you

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know, and it was just the
three of y'all. It was Holly and

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the crickets. It was nothing.
Yeah, you know, you even consider

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doing some of that because it's the
harmony is what makes it so big and

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fuller, you know. But you
know, two hundred days a year will

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turn you into pretty good band if
you got some talent, and that's what

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we were doing. Back then,
we had those, We had those songs

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that were just heared, those little
Bill and Ruth tunes. We were riding

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here, Can I count on you? You know, we had no idea,

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and then we got together with the
band. The song was good,

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and then all of a sudden,
those harmonies played such a big part of

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that, you know, and the
song becomes a record, turned it into

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something completely different and so much fun
hearing it, and even to this day

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that that's that's the simplest three chords, so simple that the label thought that

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song will never make it. You
know, they research and test everything they

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could, and that song, I
think came back at the very bottom slow

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three chords. You know, that's
never gonna make it. And then Tony

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Brown said, ment, I'll tell
you what I signed you because that song.

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I think if we don't release it, you know, what do you

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think? I said, man,
I think if you're into it, lit'ten

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do it. And we had this
video to the video credit Bill Young.

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Did you ever do any videos with
him out of here? You remember,

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Yeah, he was a legendary kind
of guy. He took us in cut

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that video. It was so tender, so sweet that back then country videos

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were so popular with you know,
Nashville Network. Everybody had their own little

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videos show many Man, and that
took off. That video really created such

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a buzz. It made radio have
to play it in some some markets,

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you know that weren't It just became
so popular. Weay because you were so

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we got love here time. I
remember my dad was an ill and it

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was ninety two the beginning, but
uh, I remember the guys from George

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State straight, like Ben MacArthur and
those guys calling me at the hotel going,

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man, you got lined up all
the way around the damn club.

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I thought, these guys are calling
to tail. It's so thrilling. They

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we're so proud of you. And
we got there and it was like,

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oh man, it was just one
of those nights you know, where screaming

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and the crowd was just incredible.
I remember my dad he was just so

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impressed. He hadn't seen He could
barely get on the bus, but he

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was so proud and I was just
so happy he could be there. But

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it was all because he's you know, in case one, O one and

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cave that just playing the heck out
of those songs. Man. And when

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you take that stage and you hit
that simple guitar intro to come account on

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you and the crowd he erupts.
You know you've done something, you know,

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you know you're connecting in a way
that's it's really special. And also

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what I always tell people is like
when you when you have a song this

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this number one in one city and
then not played it all the night.

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What that means is the song is
good enough to have been number one,

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yeah, you know it just sometimes
it translates nationwide. And back particularly back

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then, you still could have regional
hits, regional hit you know. Yeah,

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and you know now I don't I
don't think he can think about the

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label we were on back then.
I mean, you know, we were

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doing okay, but we were also
and and Tricia and George. It was

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a powerhouse label. I remember they
brought us in one time and said,

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man, you guys, we got
to step it up. You're only selling

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gold. We might lose our deal
over a gold record. I was on

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a gold record and the and the
and the Cat lost. The artist lost

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his deal because he was only going
gold. I'm still putting this on my

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wall. Just the same multi multi
pla over there were killing it. You

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well, yeah, that that age
of that age of garth where you just

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got y. You know, it
was fun to be around. It was

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funny. It's a good time to
go get It's cool now when you do

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a show and you see the audience
come back and they know every song and

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it's it's like a big family getting
back to go. And also that the

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audience that loves country music. They
didn't they didn't, they didn't go away.

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They're just being told you don't get
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yeah, telling what they're telling show
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And that's why Straits numbers are bigger
than they've ever been. Oh yeah,

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y'all are back together selling out shows
because your audience is going to excuse

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the hell out of me. Yeah, we love this music and we will

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listen to this music. And that's
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We've got those we've got those original
fans from thirty years ago. We see

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them, hear from them every day. And then we have their children who

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maybe as passionate as this mom and
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willing to share with you about being
in that truck. My dad put that

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cassette in and it just is something
special with those kids. Of course they're

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thirty mid thirties to forty years old
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Yeah, it is what great music
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young kids that are just out there
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about that generation, that era of
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you know, the bottom line is
we enjoy getting together, or we

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wouldn't be doing it, you know. I mean, we're not killing it

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out there as far as just financially
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rock Star and we're back, and
the next time it's like where's the crowd.

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it's not guaranteed every night for us. We're still out there kind of finding

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our way and reminding people who we
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new record, because you haven't stopped
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and we got a Christmas song that
drops Friday. Wow, we're shipping

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that out called It's really good.
It's for here. It's called honky talk

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and exmus down in Texas. It's
so much fun. It's we brought Larry

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Franklin still filled on it in Gordon
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talk, right a swing, very
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the way through the course. But
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five years, you know, for
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low for a lot of songs.
I still have all my cassettes from the

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nineties. I went through all those
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else to send us songs back in
the day through mc A and then we

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wrote one with the band. And
then I found a couple that had written

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years ago, and I had this
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me this Marlborough's nave on going,
hey man, this sounds like a McBride

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and the right song. What do
you think a lot of talent out of

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Sweetwater, Texas? But I was
knocked out. Usually when people send you

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something to say, I think this
is gonna say you hear it? Oh,

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It's like, what do I even
say to One of my favorite things

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is that man, I got an
idea for a number one I scope I've

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written that's fantastic now and your induction
is in February. Yeah, February twenty

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fourth is the action with the Moody
Theater. Yeah, that's what they have

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it. And Ronnie Dunns the host, which is going to do extra special

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and he's so excited. He's like, I think I'm more excited than you

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are. And I don't know about
that. But how do we get tickets?

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We got to get tickets? Yeah, how do you go That's a

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good question. I guess a ACOL
website probably right. Yeah, But you

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know that that organization, they really
do a great job and it's really really

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a cool deal. They all came
to Nashville and they did it. It

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was It made me feel so good. You know, they're so excited about

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it. They had a luncheon with
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to you know, Lee Roy was
there and Hay's Carl just some people I

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knew, didn't know, and but
it was great. You know, Alan

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Shamblin is sitting there and people that
I've known forever and ever. But it's

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a pretty cool club to be involved. With and be associated with. And

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so I'm thrilled. I don't slow
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down. Oh I won't have plenty
of energy. Still I still like going

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and doing and and being and uh, you know, I get to go.

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It's it's great for me after all
these years because I get to go

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and do these solo shows, the
songwriter shows and talking about you know,

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things I can't do with the full
band. We don't take time like that

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usually. So like last week we
were MONTGOMERYO the Arena, cool little twenty

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five hundred seeds. It was great, and then this weekend a lone star

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still doing the nineties shows, package
things. It's really cool. But the

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songwriter, I can really take my
time and and really play more of a

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variety of songs with McBride and right, it's just McBride and the right hits

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and things that we've done. But
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how these songs were created, and
not every song has a story. With

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those that do, people seem to
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And I think it's so wild that
at those writers deals, the audiences are

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extraordinarily well trained. They know they're
quiet. They are, they pay attention.

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They pay attention, and though they're
they're there to pay attention. Rooms

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that are geared towards that it's the
best. One hundred people might be all

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you need to have a fantastic time. I love those really. Some of

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the best moments have come from those
amen smaller shows like that, where they're

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just so engaged, you know,
thinking of a new career. I think

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of a new duo. You've got
Done and McBride, Well, you never

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know what the future of my home, you know, That's what I'll tell

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Ronnie. I said that Done and
McBride got a ring. You got a

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guy from you get a guy from
Taylor, Texas, you get him together.

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Of course, you know Ronnie got
kicked out of college. Man,

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that's another story. That's but that's
you know, there's there's a future there.

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Yeah, I tell you we've joked
about that in the past because I'd

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be on the road with him singing
and her voices they blending well, and

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we do you know, you're on
there on you on the road. Just

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got a little cassette deck back in
the day, you know, and we

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start putting these songs down, you
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and then Ronnie's say, man,
I like your voice sounds good.

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So then I started singing on the
records. You know, that was exciting

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and another, you know, little
part of what I was contributing out there.

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I wanted to, you know,
earn my keep. And then then

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Ronnie called one day and said,
hey, man, we're making some changes

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in the band. We want you
to come and play bass in the band.

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I was like, oh no,
I mean I wanted to, but

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I didn't want to be an employee. Now I'm a friend, I'm a

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co writer. Now I'm now I'm
in the band. It's a different thing.

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Put me in there, and now
I've got to be there every day

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for sound check. Where before I
could come and go a couple of trips.

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I wouldn't even go if I had
family. Whatever I wanted to do,

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you know, but Ronnie said,
hey, man, take the gig.

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He goes, You're out here eating
her catering every night anyway, you

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know, because you feel guilty every
angle. And he goes, you know,

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we're gonna keep writing the songs.
You're gonna travel with me. Nothing's

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gonna change. And he goes,
But the first night if you take the

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gig, We're gonna get a little
jit. We're gonna fly to Omaha,

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Nebraska, and we're gonna open for
the Rolling Stones. That'll be your first

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night. I went, I could
always quit after that the rolling so I

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did, and it was fun.
We were off and running after that,

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you know, it was it was
really cool. Nothing really changed much other

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than we I got Ronnie off of
that bus because he liked to just sit.

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I said, let's get up.
Let's get off this bus. So

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we go work out. You know, Ronnie, they can do anything they

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want. So they have a van, we go fire. The tour managers

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find the best, you know,
health club, and they give him some

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tickets. They worked out great,
you know. But sometimes we show up

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late. The band would already be
sound checking. I'm running in there,

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going, oh my gosh. It
made me feel strange. But yeah,

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I'm with the boss. So that's
so only so much I could do out

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there. But yeah, and then
that band was phenomenal and a lot of

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those guys are still in the in
the group to this day, had that

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gig for twenty something years. I
wrold Steel guitar player Gary Morris is in

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the is still out there. I
still wish they'd go back to the studio

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and do another album. I really
do. Yeah, I don't know what's

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going to happen there. A lot
of people have been asking me about it.

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Ronnie hasn't really brought it up,
but uh, I know some songwriters

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out they're they're like a big coming
of the I hear they might be cutting

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you know, it'd be nice.
Ronnie's been doing a solo record. He's

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got a real quick solo records are
great. He's given the cover the cover

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solo record that was amazing. One
of the greatest vocal performances in the history

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of country music. And I do
not say that lightly. I'm talking about

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you talk Jimmy Rodgers, Ap Carter
Up till this Afternoon is Ronnie Dunn's Costs

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to Livings High and Gone. Yeah, that is one of the greatest local

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perform That guy is singing that song
live, that song. That is not

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wrong. That's that's just that guy
living that song. He loved that song

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and that that vocal performance is like
I'm salonso my crier. Yeah, it

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does have a little mournful It's just
stunning. It's just every word is just

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the purity of that. I lived
with that song a lot because that's just

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me and Ronnie singing on that song. I know it is. I can

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really hear my voice on all the
of all the songs, that one in

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particular, because it's just the two
of us on it. But yeah,

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he did have a great performance.
He's just strong even live. He doesn't

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sound like an old guy yet,
you know what I mean, he's seventy.

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Whether he wants to admit it or
not, he's seventy years old.

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But he really sings good. He
just sent me he's got a lot of

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Texas kind of songs he's been working
on. He's he's all immersed in Texas

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now again, you know, but
he's trying to do these more classic traditional

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type of songs and he can pull
it off. I mean, he's he's

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great at anything, I think,
and you know, yeah, definitely one

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of my one of my favorites.
When he talks about you know, his

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folks called if they get help,
but they're just getting by themselves. Yeah,

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good Night Nurse is incredible. Anyway, I knew that was all and

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yeah, that was just that's one
of the purest greatest country performance in and

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and and history will not remember what
that did or didn't do on the charts.

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Like I tell people all the time, Buddy Holly's ravaon peaked at thirty

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seven? Is that what you're going
to remember, or that it was one

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of the greatest vocal performances of all
time? Cross the Living Tide by Ronnie

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Done is one of the greatest vocal
performances in the history country. I'll let

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him know that. He probably knows
it too. Let him know that I'm

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thinking about Done. He's probably thrilled. But pass all this, you'll say,

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pick it? Wh which which Bob? Was that? All day to

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listen to the podcast? Just check. Have you had fun doing it?

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Because we've been trying to get you
in. I know you can. We

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kept saying we all love this has
been Kids on tenfold said hit that sweet

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spot. Go? What was I
thinking? Somebody asked that, They said,

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you gotta go work in the This
ain't work, man. This is

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this is. When I pulled up
today, I have Dominic with moves on

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the road with us and does our
socials and to our managers. He's wearing

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all kind of hats. But when
I pulled up today, I was been

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telling him about the broken spoke,
you know, but just seeing it again

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after all these years, of course, it looks nothing like the neighborhood we

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remember back in the day. Walk
inde. The building itself has not changed,

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man, from that dance floor to
that little stage where I had some

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fantastic moments, man, including playing
with my dad here, you know,

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and James really thought a lot of
my dad back in the day. And

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we'd come here, and you know, even when we weren't playing, we

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come here, it'd be somebody cool
we want to hear always and that hasn't

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changed obviously, that's still happening.
Man. You played with a crow,

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Yeah, i'd played. We played
some old George Jones songs I didn't really

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know, and I mean he let
me know it right away. He's like,

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you don't know that song? I
got wit of some one of the

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three chords that I didn't you know, I went to the one that I

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didn't know at the right time,
but you know it by the end it

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Yeah, it makes sense to me. I feel it now today. Hey,

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I've had that so many times in
my life as the bass player.

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That's a big note. Like with
Brooks and dun back in the day.

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I used to like to have a
cocktail or two. I don't anymore,

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as you know, we've all had
our moments. But I would keep myself

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in check because that bass note is
you had fifteen thousand people out there,

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you slip up one fred off and
that bass note can turn every hit.

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I mean a guitar player you might
get away with it. Fiddle, any

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other instrument you can kind of flub
and keep moving. The bass note you

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got to be on right. I
mean, my dad let me know that.

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Early on. He would say things
like the band's dragon Terry right.

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But he's just like subtle, you
know, very subtle little hints that you

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need to keep it up. And
of course I love my dad and looked

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up to him like you know most
guys do, and I did not want

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to disappoint. So he really the
fear you know of you know, not

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doing well, was so strong that
I he made me. That was when

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I really spent my time in rehearsing
as a young person. I mean,

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I was already in high school,
knowing I was already the eighth grade.

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I was already in the fifth grade, knowing what I was gonna do,

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you know, taking my guitar to
school and playing. Hey, Jude changed

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my life because he got me out
of class all day. I got a

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built in audience and I'm not having
to do school work. This is my

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this is my my direction. I'm
going in here. And then it just

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kept on from there. But really, I say, Dad, and hauling

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hay in Texas in July was another
real uh motivation to go home and practice.

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I go home after day at home
and hey and go, I gotta

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get into I gotta get serious about
this because I don't want to end up

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doing something like this. And early
on that you know, the chicks,

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Doug guys that picked the guitar just
as much they did football players, and

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we didn't have to do two a
days one. Yeah, you gotta,

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you gotta really want to. I
mean I was an average athlete at best.

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I think my coach said it best
one time in the interviewed. Terry

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had a lot of heart, he
said, but I love sports, you

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know, and all my friends played, so it's something we all did.

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And football as a well alive here. But who two days in Texas.

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You've got to be tough, son
of a gun to make me ladies I'll

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just take this guitar out. Just
fine. This summer it's been I'm so

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so grateful you did this. I
hope that next time you're in Austin,

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can we do it again. Its
so much for the invite. This is

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just this is the last you always
have. These are the These are the

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perks of getting to do this business. You get to sit around and visit

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with old friends and talk about the
business a little bit, maybe learn a

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couple of things you didn't know.
And uh, you know, I doubt

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your listeners learned anything today, but
maybe they found that's something they didn't learned

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today. It's been great and I'll
be a thing in February that guys there.

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That would be great. I mean, is it what's a dress code?

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We're in Austin, Man, you
kidding? I'll be in a suit,

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okay. Pick I remember the days
of coming in here with my dad

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and getting that chicken fried steak that
took up the size of your year.

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Yeah, I mean they still do
that. You have fantastic It was it

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was a it was a big moment
getting to come here and play that.

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And this is a big moment.
Thanks guys for having me. It's just

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great, looking forward to it and
and I can't wait to listen back and

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see what the heck says. Remember
Terry McBride, Tales and Broken Spoke,

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And we promise you there'll be more
tales very very soon, Amen, all

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right. Tales from the Broken Spoke
is recorded live at The Broken Spoke in

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Austin, Texas, hosted by Country
Radio Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Pickett and

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Monty Warden, recorded mixed down and
produced by Mike Rivera