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Still Playin' Possum · Tigs Bits Podcast

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  Welcome back to Tigs, B. On today's show, Jr.
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  Tells us all about a recent tribute show, for George Jones
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  called still playing possum. Justin Moore performed in it.
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  And Jr, has some backstage insight for us.
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  It was a freaking who's who of country music and he has some,
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  has some really good stories to tell.
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  And if that isn't enough, and that's not enough to get excited
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  about. Justin Moore's, brand new album
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  stray dog is coming out on Cinco de Mayo.
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  A oh, it's probably already out. By the time you're watching this
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  or listening to this. So absolutely go check it out.
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  It's really, really good. I've heard a couple of tracks
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  from it. It's fantastic.
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  Go check it out. Sit back relax.
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  Let's get into this. But don't forget to like,
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  Let's get started. We actually just got back from
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  Huntsville. We had to show Tuesday night in
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  Huntsville, Alabama, and it was pretty damn cool man.
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  Justin just did two songs but it was for Nancy Jones, George
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  Jones Widow. She's put she put together a
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  George Jones tribute show, they're going to put out on, PBS
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  going to be on American Masters and that kind of stuff.
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  Okay, we years, but it's called steel play was called still
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  playing possum, the George Jones, nice.
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  Music and memories of George Jones.
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  So everybody basically went up did George Jones songs, man.
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  So Justin did white lightning and he also did with Joe Nichols
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  and one Randy. Travis a few old country, boys.
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  But man, let me give you all the lineup.
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  Just, this is, it was pretty cool.
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  And, you know, it was too quick as usual.
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  And it's too hectic. And I didn't get to enjoy it as
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  much as I'd like to, because I still was working some, but it
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  was a really cool event put on again.
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  Bye, Nancy Jones, who I've met a few times over the years
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  sweetheart, great stories, which we can get in that, no music
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  episode. I mean, she basically confirmed
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  that. Yeah, George was owned by The
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  Dixie Mafia and stuff for his cocaine habit and stuff.
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  This is crazy. Yeah she confirmed and she
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  confirmed that on there, she confirmed that on are on the
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  morning talk show there and that they hosted from there.
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  So it's not like I'm breaking news here but yeah that's all
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  confirmed in the books coming out there you can tell they're
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  getting ready for their push. This thing on Mountain.
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  There's a new book and all that kind of stuff, but, but the host
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  was Paula Deen. Which I mean, who doesn't love?
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  Paula Deen. But it which I don't, it was
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  just fun. I will say this and there knock
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  on her, but yeah, she I don't know if she knew everybody who
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  was there, you know? But she was, she was, she was a
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  good. She was excitable host.
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  You know what I mean? Did she cook?
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  Did she have any treats or anything backstage?
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  Yeah. I don't know.
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  I don't know if she was a, if she had anything to do with that
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  or not, but there was good food backstage.
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  I'll give him that. At, but let's say I'm just gonna
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  go down the list, quick, as I can here, but the first, the,
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  the opening thing, after Paul of they did, they did, they did
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  no-show Jones. It was John Berry and need a
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  Cochran Heath, right tire iron and Billy Yates, then the, the
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  Jamie Johnson did two songs he did, who's going to fill their
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  shoes. Which I mean, of course, he
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  crushed that then Michael Ray Janie freaky, Dylan Carmichael,
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  Tracy Byrd, The Isaacs. A tree at Tanya Tucker, Aaron
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  Lewis Sara Evans, Tracy Byrd Trace Adkins Justin Lorrie
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  Morgan, Uncle Kracker, Tracy Lawrence, Dierks, Bentley and
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  loaded Sambora. It was cool to hang out with Sam
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  Moore from Sam & Dave, Sambora. You know, if anyone's never seen
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  the Rainy Night in Georgia, version that Conway Twitty and
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  Sam Moore did it is phenomena is actually the last thing I think
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  Conway, ever recorded before he passed.
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  But got to hang out with Sam Moore, 88 years old Still just
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  telling stories backstage us to hoot and his wheelchair Janie,
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  freaky Legend, Uncle Kracker Tracy, again Gretchen Wilson,
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  Tanana, Charlie star and Jamie Johnson, Charlie star from
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  Blackberry Smoke and Jamie did a song together was real cool.
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  Joe Nichols t. G Brown Lori and Jamie jelly
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  roll then Brad Paisley. Wow!
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  Holy wow. And I'll say for as much as they
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  had going on it was really well. Ran and in a timely manner.
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  Everybody got on and off stage and there weren't a lot less.
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  I thought it would have been a more of a cluster than it was
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  actually, usually, they are. But they did a great job doing
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  that. So I don't have all the info
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  when that'll come out, but there's been a press release and
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  stuff, but it'll be a, you know, probably within the next year,
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  that'll be out on PBS still playing pass also.
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  Hey, it their new Amphitheater up in Huntsville.
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  There is a real nice thing is called the Orion Amphitheatre.
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  His really, I have not been. Yeah.
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  Yeah, Widespread Panic will be there.
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  Panik makes playing it. At this summer?
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  Yeah. I think it I think so thanking
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  me. Yeah, I've been invited.
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  You need to go bleh. So yep, JD reached out to me he
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  said he's got four tickets. Oh that's good man.
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  It looks really really nice. Like it looks kind of like a
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  Coliseum in a in a sense. It's very modern.
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  Yeah yeah they look so Hank jr. Played it right.
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  Long after they opened and Nathan my sister tour manager.
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  Also. Frank jr.
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  Said that it was a really nice building said they.
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  Everything was done, well, nice new clean, and all that said,
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  for as far as for our stuff backstage, now that obviously
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  wasn't audience member. But he said it was really nice
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  and and cool. But he did say, Hank said,
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  Barrett aureum said the same, you know.
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  So Hank will call this Berra. Thorium, they just don't sell
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  beer. Still going to the Hang show.
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  Dude, I saw In May. Yeah.
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  Are you going to hang show and made down in Tampa Orlando?
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  Yeah, yeah. We're supposed to May 19th down
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  in Tampa. Yep.
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  That should be fun. Actually, he's going to be here
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  in a couple of weeks at the, at the Wharf Amphitheater.
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  I think it's the night before Mother's Day, fall out, but I'll
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  be on the road. So I'm not going to make that.
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  I think my wife may actually go. Yeah, that'll be cool.
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  It'll be cool. Yeah, I saw on your, I saw on
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  your social media on a Jr, the Handler on Instagram.
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  On your, on your Twitter page, the some of the pictures and
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  stuff that you had taken at that George Jones event.
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  I was like, what what, the heck's going on here.
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  Yeah, it was like, what? What are they, what are they
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  doing? And I so yeah.
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  That makes total sense. They're filming.
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  Totally totally makes sense. Yep, couldn't post a lot of
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  stuff but yeah. Right sure sure, I hope and I'm
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  sure some of these songs will be released with so you can stream
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  them, listen to them and all of that because Hey you got to hear
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  them all. Yeah, most of them.
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  Yeah some of them you know busy backstage and there's a ton of
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  mean you know it's an arena normally made for a couple of
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  bands to put on a show when you got 30 acts and people moving
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  around and KO crazy back there. Yeah.
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  But it would but then it but then again, it's cool because
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  you know, walking by and it's like, oh sorry Tracy Byrd.
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  What's going on with you? That's right, t.
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  G Brown? Anita Cochran?
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  Oh I'm sorry guys forgot. I gotta go get just hit.
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  Pardon me Tracy let me Watermelon Crawl.
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  Through here, you know, it was cool for me because I got to
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  catch up with some old friends. I don't see much some of the
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  artists like Jamie. I had talked to Jamie and a
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  couple of years, good to catch up with him.
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  Tracy Byrd. Again, I never really been
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  around bird. Tracy Lawrence has an old
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  friend, so it's good to see him and then but for me also it's
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  the the backstage guys. The other tour managers the
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  production managers. Right?
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  Handlers like me that that backstage you know.
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  So got to see my dear friend, Brent long Brad Paisley's long
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  time, tour manager, talked to Brad.
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  It's Dad, Sheriff Doug, you know, just different ones
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  backstage. So that was really cool coming
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  up, you know, and people that work from other aspects coming
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  together to help the show part of it.
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  So, some different promoters that help do different stuff and
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  people from other camps that were there just to do audio and
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  video stuff. So, it was a really neat event
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  and yeah, it was, it was a trip because, you know, when the show
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  started just they wanted just to sit down front for the first of
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  the show for the, for the video part and he sits down and then
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  they Put Lorrie Morgan, her husband beside him and then
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  Gretchen Wilson and her man beside him on the other side.
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  Then I see this lady get up and talk to Justin.
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  I couldn't really make out who it was because the lights were I
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  was standing kind of side stage and then afterwards he told me.
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  Yeah, that was Hazel Daniels, Charlie Daniels Widow and we
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  have hope I've seen her in a long time, since Uncle Charlie
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  pass. So he got to spend a few minutes
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  talking with her before the show and, you know, Then it was just
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  hilarious. You know it well that what that
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  was awesome but then he say, you know, Lori Morgan's like what
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  did they say? Because they can't hear what
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  somebody say it onstage. And he's like, I don't know.
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  Miss Lorrie Morgan had more information but it was, but it
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  was cool. And then I got to meet because I
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  got to meet bird for the front, mint.
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  Jelly roll, had never met him before.
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  He's a cool guy, really? Yeah, be nice to be a super cool
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  guy. We're all they had us all pushed
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  into, you know, like to mail dressing rooms and a female
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  dressing room. They like that.
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  House band, which the house band was cool because steel player
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  Eddie dunlap's used to be in the band will meet with John party
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  back in the days. Dear friend.
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  Okay Tucky, he plays a lot of the Opry stuff now and then a
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  couple other, the people in the show, but then in the dressing
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  rooms, you know, like in our dressing room was us and then
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  there's I met Charlie star from Blackberry Smoke and I really
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  talked to him. But in the same room and t g and
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  Joe and Justin, and jelly roll and I mean it's just everybody's
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  in one dressing room, you know. That's cool man.
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  Yeah. Good networking opportunity as
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  well. I would think, you know, some of
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  you guys with the with, like Minds, swapping, some War
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  Stories and stuff like that and you know, and never could never
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  can hurt I've now maybe don't good.
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  Maybe maybe don't go to this place, you know?
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  Or it may have you been here kind of raw a kind of?
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  Yeah, it was, it was too brief to.
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  It was a little, you know, it was too quick.
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  Definitely been cooler for the last a lot longer.
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  So we could have had more time to spend with everybody
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  individually, but it was, but it was still cool.
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  To get to see everybody. Yes, freaking opossum, man.
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  That's awesome. It's a good good time to good
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  time to, to ride that wave of the truth.
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  And what and, you know, all of that stuff is specially after
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  the, Georgian, Tammy show. That's on.
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  Wherever it's at Rowan. Tell me that's great.
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  Great show. And he said, this will be the,
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  this, the 10-year anniversary to, you know, that this is how,
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  wow. Yeah.
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  Because later this year, it was at the original George Jones,
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  farewell concert that he passed away right before.
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  So he knows showed his last show but it was after that show that
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  night when my friend Wayne Mills got killed.
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  So that's 10 euros will be later this year.
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  Yeah but but could cool nonetheless and glad everybody.
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  Everybody chipped in to lend their talents to make it a real
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  cool event and hopefully it'll Be calm.
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  I'm sure it'll come out and great on film and they'll put it
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  out to PBS and A lot of people all over the world I get to see
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  it and enjoyed. Yeah, music of the possible
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  there, it is beyond. Can't wait man, I can't wait now
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  Justin Moore. He has a new album coming out as
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  well, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, we do May 5th.
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  I think is the Cinco de Mayo. The new album will come out
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  straight on. Okay yeah yeah.
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  So that'll come out its I've heard a couple of the tracks.
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  We put there's already a few tracks that are Available like
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  free downloads but yeah the whole thing solid country
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  record. Great Tunes.
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  Great riding pumped about I'll do the news.
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  One of the songs is not the single out right now, but stray
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  dog. Straight dogs, the song, the
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  title is stray, dog. Of the album, with the song
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  stray dogs is a great tune. Just a it's a you know it's
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  about doing your own thing, cutting your own path kind of
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  deal and not compromising and sticking to you guys.
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  It's a great, it's a great song. It's a good tune.
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  I-it's been Being randomly on Spotify, the DJ, the you know,
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  we talk about artificial intelligence and stuff on this
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  show for driver well, Spotify has artificial intelligence DJ
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  that he comes on a tells you you know what he's about to spend
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  for you and plays five or six songs and then it switches
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  genres or something else. He'll he'll tell you, when
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  you're braking, well, I get a lot of just and I don't know why
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  because we do no idea. That's right.
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  No idea why? Yeah, of course, it's why.
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  Yeah, I mean, I've he's been in the rotation since I've had a
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  rotation with digitally, you know, but right.
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  But he's very much now in the rotation, like, it's, it's
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  awesome. But it's good because it's, it's
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  good for good feedback for you to know it's randomly playing,
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  these new songs to like, just we've been Listen to some
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  country music that we think that you're going to like here's this
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  here's a new song from Justin Moore rights.
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  I was like, wow. Okay, let's yeah, pretty cool
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  and scary for DJ's but I don't want I don't want to open up
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  that can of worms today. I just basically, you know, I
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  know that I knew that Justin out a new album coming out, so you
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  guys go check that out and look. Don't forget to like subscribe
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  and leave a comment. Tell us your favorite tracks.
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  All of that stuff in Justin's. Going to be out on tour.
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  This This summer, so go and go and catch him.
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  And I know that that Jr is about to be getting super busy with
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  touring the yep. It's going to be a gonna be a
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  busy summer as usual, but looking forward to it,