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Gregg Allman The Music Of My Soul Documentary From James Keach · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Ero dot net a r r oe dot net, one
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  Speaker 1: I love what you're doing here, James. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: why is because music needs this right now. We are
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  Speaker 1: such a stream generated person and personality and we go
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  Speaker 1: out there, we get our music, but we don't know
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  Speaker 1: the story. And Greg Alman, the music of my soul
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  Speaker 1: is so in tune where I think where we need
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  Speaker 1: to be growing with music.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, well, I would agree with you. I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think in terms of story, a great story too.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: When you see this movie, you'll see a real story
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  Speaker 3: of humanity of all of us. It's an everyman's story.
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  Speaker 3: Not that everybody's a rock and roll star or a
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  Speaker 3: great singer, but everybody suffers and has trauma in their life,
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  Speaker 3: and Greg had lots of it. I don't know that
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people realize what the guy went through
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  Speaker 3: during his life and how he came out the other
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  Speaker 3: side and was redeemed with sobriety by the end of it,
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  Speaker 3: along with having one of the most incredible musical careers
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  Speaker 3: of all time.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think that's because all of those rock magazines
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  Speaker 1: painted Greg to be somebody in an iconic state, Because
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I even though I had heard of everything
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  Speaker 1: he was going through, that to me was, well, he's
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  Speaker 1: just a rock star. That's what rock stars go through.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he's so brilliant, because he's able to escape
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  Speaker 1: and go places that most I must go.
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  Speaker 2: WHOA, Well, maybe I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think you know when I don't know what it's
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  Speaker 3: like to have. But my dad murdered when I'm two.
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  Speaker 3: Yours dad was murdered and his brother at the height
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  Speaker 3: just before they became the biggest band in the world
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  Speaker 3: Guys in a motorcycle accident at twenty four, and then
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  Speaker 3: his bass player dies a year later, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: and he to the loss of his brother was like
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  Speaker 3: losing his father twice.
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  Speaker 2: You know, It's like you know.
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  Speaker 3: It, but you know when you hear it, you hear
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  Speaker 3: that that ache in his voice.
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  Speaker 2: You hear the wind he sings.
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  Speaker 3: It's an I think he was one of the greatest
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  Speaker 3: singers of his generation by far.
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  Speaker 1: Well what is it about his voice when you speak
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  Speaker 1: about like that, Because it won't leave my head. I
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  Speaker 1: can sit here and jump into an Almond Brother's tune
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  Speaker 1: or a Greg Almond song at the drop of a hat.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like that man knew what he was doing
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  Speaker 1: when planting that voice inside our souls.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's like saying, how to where does somebody's
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  Speaker 3: talent come from?
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  Speaker 2: His vision?
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  Speaker 3: You know, the music gods visited him and said, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have this voice. But it's also I
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  Speaker 3: think it's coming from the bottom of his feet. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's singing. He sings from He's not singing from the
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  Speaker 3: neck up. He's singing from his soul, his whole. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that his teachers, his inspirations, whether it's Hank
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  Speaker 3: Hank Moore, or Floyd Miles or Otis Redding or any
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  Speaker 3: of those guys that he so admired and so give
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  Speaker 3: credit for. Throughout his life, he kept saying, these are
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  Speaker 3: the guys that taught me how to saying they too
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  Speaker 3: had that when he listened to Otis he has that
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  Speaker 3: kind of.
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  Speaker 2: You know that souls that soul, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look at the way that Johnny Cash and June
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  Speaker 1: Carter pulled toward him because they obviously heard the street.
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  Speaker 1: I always say that here in the South, soul is
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  Speaker 1: really our way of seeing soil. In other words, it
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  Speaker 1: all comes from the soil. And that's the soul of
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  Speaker 1: what we have here in the South.
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  Speaker 3: That's greats come from the soil. And you know, you
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  Speaker 3: talk about Cash or Glenn Campbell, those guys they were
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  Speaker 3: they were dirt farmers, literally and so and that's where
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  Speaker 3: they started singing was in the field.
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  Speaker 1: It's it, that's it, because that's the way that it is.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you're doing this in an
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  Speaker 1: age where I just read an article two weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: where they're now taking the term classic rock off the
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  Speaker 1: radio and now it's just going to be called rock.
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  Speaker 1: And I just feel that a moment like this with
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  Speaker 1: Greg Alman, the music of my soul is saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, we're not going to just slip it
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  Speaker 1: into a genre where everything fits in. It is still
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  Speaker 1: all on its own. And I'm going to prove it
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  Speaker 1: to you in this documentary exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, as far as I'm concerned. You know, classic,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean classic in the sense of, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's timeless, and it's you know, and the you
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  Speaker 3: know and say, hey man, that's classic. I don't mean
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  Speaker 3: that that's old. I mean that that's fantastic, that that's good,
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  Speaker 3: that that's you know, to be revered.
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  Speaker 2: And it's also I mean, you listen to these guys.
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  Speaker 2: I watched.
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  Speaker 3: Devin Almon and Bet Dwayne Bett's play the other night,
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  Speaker 3: and these guys they were rocking the audience and they
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  Speaker 3: were just playing acoustically, and boy, when they hit started
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  Speaker 3: doing those dual guitar riffs, it was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh please don't move. There is more with James
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  Speaker 1: Keach and the subject Greg Almond coming up next. The
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  Speaker 1: documentary Greg Allman The Music of My Soul going to
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  Speaker 1: be in theaters. We've got to check it out. Let's
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  Speaker 1: check in with James Keach. If you ever want to
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  Speaker 1: see Warren Haynes get weak, bring up the name Greg Alman.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, he will. His guard comes down and
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  Speaker 1: he wants to share stories. Oh just bringing up his name.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you bring up Warren Haynes. He's another one who
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  Speaker 3: can really play woo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's at an era of music that they cannot
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  Speaker 1: be forgotten. And that's why we're relying on people like you, James,
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  Speaker 1: to really step out there and step into it, saying, hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: this is the way that it is, and we can't
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  Speaker 1: get into the future until we know what happened before
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  Speaker 1: it got here.
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  Speaker 3: I would agree with you, and I think too, I
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  Speaker 3: think just in terms of a story of redemption, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I mean we also have in our world.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just music that he brings to us.
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  Speaker 3: He brings us his humanity and a story of redemption
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  Speaker 3: of a guy who went through hell and came out
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  Speaker 3: the other side, and his music reflected the hell that
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  Speaker 3: he went through, you know. So that's it's not just
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  Speaker 3: it's not sad. It's entertaining at the same time as
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  Speaker 3: it being informative.
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  Speaker 1: All the research that you've done. Though, my question would
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  Speaker 1: be only because being a creative person, we all have vices,
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  Speaker 1: we all have dark spots. There are many times that
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  Speaker 1: I would look at because I was a kid when
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  Speaker 1: when share was happening with with Greg Allman, it was
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  Speaker 1: they were they were my royalty. And I kept saying,
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  Speaker 1: don't fix him, don't do anything to fix him. I
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  Speaker 1: need Greg Almond to be Greg Almond. Don't fix him.
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  Speaker 3: He said that in the actual he says it in
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  Speaker 3: the movie. I tried to fix him and that was
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  Speaker 3: that was a mistake. And Greg says, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: tried to fix me and I.
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  Speaker 2: Just couldn't do it. I could wouldn't. He also just did.
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  Speaker 3: He loves share. He just didn't couldn't take Hollywood. He
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  Speaker 3: couldn't take Every time he walked out of the house,
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  Speaker 3: it was a guy paparazzi waiting there with a camera.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted to be back, as you would say, on
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  Speaker 3: the farm. But you know, he wanted to be where
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  Speaker 3: he could smell the dirt and not see cameras in
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  Speaker 3: front of him. He was because he was incredibly shy,
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  Speaker 3: which is you know, I said, certainly a contrast you
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  Speaker 3: know rockstar who's shy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it was the hair, dude.
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  Speaker 1: It was the hair he hid behind those locks because
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  Speaker 1: those of us had the long hair. Itdi is the hair.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what I wish I had that.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about everything
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  Speaker 1: that you are doing with Greg Almond. The music of
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  Speaker 1: my soul.
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  Speaker 2: Where can they go find out about it?
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  Speaker 3: I guess find out where the movie is going to
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  Speaker 3: be playing and go see it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, oerience it, and then talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, preach it, bring it forward man, like we
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  Speaker 1: do here in the South.
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  Speaker 2: There there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Well, please come back to this show anytime in the future,
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  Speaker 1: because we barely scratch the surfacer and I really want
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  Speaker 1: to dig into your passion for music history.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, thank you so much for your time. We'll
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  Speaker 2: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be brilliant today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, here two