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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You may not realize it, but every minute of every
day you're enjoying your First Amendment freedoms. You can wear
what you want, give out your opinion for free, even
if it's unpopular, Listen to your playlist. You can put
a sign out on your front lawn that says vote
for Bigfoot, someone you can believe in. Pray to the
God of your choice, or don't you have the right
(00:21):
to hang with a posse that thinks like you do.
Tell the government what you think about its policies. They're
the freedoms that let you be you, and they're all
brought to you by the First Amendment. In myself learn
more at freedomforum dot org.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I do want to welcome from the multi award winning
and fantastic Oakridge Boys William Lee, Golden William. The first
thing I want to say is just, you know, our
condolences here to you the guys, and of course Joe's family.
Losing Joe Bonsel earlier this year just a squeeze heavy
(01:00):
on our hearts.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Well, it's been a terrible year for loss with the
Oakridge Boys.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, the great news is that Ben Ben James has
been doing such a wonderful job stepping and it really
really was a great pick for Joe.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
To bless it really is. It was a god sent
really being James coming in with the Oakridge Boys. He
stepped right in and we still haven't had a rehearsal
with him, but he has not missed a word nor
a note.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Isn't that crazy how some people they're just naturals.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I knew it, and he was familiar with our music.
And Tony Brown heard him saying here about a year ago,
and or he was blown away with him. He said, man,
he said, I've not heard a voice but one voice
like that in the past forty years. He said, You've
got a voice like Fancy gild.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh, that's high praise.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah. Tony has worked with Vance a lot, and he's
produced the last twenty albums with George Straight. He's produced
Reba's albums. He's produced Dance with a lot of record
recordings and used vanced on a lot of his recordings.
And he's produced. Tony has produced more hit records than
(02:21):
anybody in Nashville. But when he heard Ben James saying,
he said, wow, he said, you're a brand new generation
the boys like Vince Giel.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, you guys are on your American Made Farewell Tour,
which is going to morph a bit here very soon
into the American Made Farewell Christmas Tour. And I know,
the biggest thing that I'm excited about is new music
from you guys. The album is called Mama's Boys. And
(02:54):
what I wanted to ask you about, William, is you
know your story growing up? You must have had an
amazing mom.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I did, and my mother, God rest her soul. She
was a poet. She loved writing poetry and she has
two poet books of her boy poetry, and but that's
she found comfort in telling her stories through poetry. She
enjoyed poetry. And yeah, for a the talent. My mother
(03:28):
also was loved music and she taught my my sister
how to play music. And she taught me how to
play music. And when I was six and seven years old,
my sister taught me how to play guitar. She was
three and a half years older, but she played mandolin,
(03:49):
guitar and piano. She still does, and she's a real talent.
And she needed a rhythm guitar player and a harmony
play so she taught me how to play guitar and
sing harmonies, and I learned that when I was sixty
seven and eight. We had to do it for a while,
and so I got in high school and my little
(04:12):
brother joined us. We had a trio. And then when
I was later in high school, I joined the FFA Quartet.
My first four part harmony is singing, and I enjoyed
singing in the quartet sounds too, So that's what led
me to have a lifetime love for quartet singing and
(04:38):
great harmony singing.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, it has certainly served you very well since you
joined the Oakrage Boys back in nineteen sixty five. I
really want to focus a little bit on this new
album and you're, you know, Mama's Boys, and they do
say in some of the press releases this is really
based on all of your guys' mom Which songs did
(05:01):
you or maybe it's all of them have a hand
in kind of getting out there on the album.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, there was a song that Ben James sing their
New Tenor Singers called Mama's Teaching Angels how to Sing.
It's a Dottie Rambo song and he did an incredible
job on that. I get to sing a song on
there that David Lee Murphy and ar Tearror Sing is
(05:29):
a brand new song they wrote for this album for
Dave Cobb. He had told him what we were doing
and asked him to write a song, and they wrote
the song that I recorded, called come on Home. It's
about a young boy leaving home and takes off in
his car and gets way out to la and the truckstof.
(05:51):
He calls back home and his brother says, come on
home if you're hurting, because you're never alone. Door is
always open and the lights are always home.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
That does sound and that does sound like a mom,
doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, But it's an up tempo song. And I get
to sing lead on that, So we different guys get
to sing different songs. But I love that one and
I'm just glad that I got to sing the lead
on it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I see that you're working with Willie too, Willie Nelson.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, WILLI wrote a song on there. Willie Nelson wrote,
I Thought about You Lord, and Dwayne sang the first
verse on that, and then Willy sang the second verse
and we all sing the choruses. So yeah, that's the
first time we've ever been able to record with Willie
(06:47):
Nelson recorded with a lot of people we recorded with everybody,
but we hadn't ever sang together.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I love that this meets then. I love it now.
If you're curious Mama's Boys. It's in stores right now.
You could get it at Oakridgeboys dot com, Amazon dot com.
It's streaming just about everywhere so you can get a
listen to it. See forty one million units sold so far.
(07:19):
And of course the big tour going on. I mean,
you guys have really done it all, and I love
that you're going to be around this area. But this
tour is going to feature old and new Oakridge.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Boys, right and we'll be singing two or three of
these brand new songs. We already doing two of them.
We're doing the Mama's Teaching Angels, have a sing featured
being James On Jenner, and were also singing the Thought
About You Lord with a Nelson song on stage. And
(07:53):
I want to learn the from own Home, the one
that I get to sing.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Oh yeah, well, I think people are going to be
blown away by your show. You were in here not
too long ago at one of our casinos. We loved
it absolutely and can't wait for you to get back
here to the Quad Cities. But in the meantime, if
you check their tour dates that you guys are not
far away from here and people will absolutely want to
(08:20):
travel to see the Oakridge Boys.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well, anytime we get close, we invite everyone to come
see us. And we're on a paralwell tour, but we
really don't want to retire found out, you know, since
Ben James has been a godsend for the Oakridge Boys
and we're enjoyed singing now and it's been a healing
(08:44):
for us mentally, emotionally, physical and spiritual healing being able
to be together and sing songs together. And so it's
good for us to be able to go out and
be able to sing these songs because we need the
healing more than they Buddy.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Right now, William Lee Golden from the oak Ridge Boys,
thank you for being here. And again that new album
is Mama's Boys. You will want to hear it, buy
it and go see them.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Thank you then, Heil
You may not realize it, but every minute of every
day you're enjoying your First Amendment freedoms. You can wear
what you want, give out your opinion for free, even
if it's unpopular, Listen to your playlist. You can put
a sign out on your front lawn that says vote
for Bigfoot, someone you can believe in. Pray to the
God of your choice, or don't you have the right
(00:21):
to hang with a posse that thinks like you do.
Tell the government what you think about its policies. They're
the freedoms that let you be you, and they're all
brought to you by the First Amendment. In myself learn
more at freedomforum dot org.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I do want to welcome from the multi award winning
and fantastic Oakridge Boys William Lee, Golden William. The first
thing I want to say is just, you know, our
condolences here to you the guys, and of course Joe's family.
Losing Joe Bonsel earlier this year just a squeeze heavy
(01:00):
on our hearts.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Well, it's been a terrible year for loss with the
Oakridge Boys.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, the great news is that Ben Ben James has
been doing such a wonderful job stepping and it really
really was a great pick for Joe.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
To bless it really is. It was a god sent
really being James coming in with the Oakridge Boys. He
stepped right in and we still haven't had a rehearsal
with him, but he has not missed a word nor
a note.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Isn't that crazy how some people they're just naturals.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I knew it, and he was familiar with our music.
And Tony Brown heard him saying here about a year ago,
and or he was blown away with him. He said, man,
he said, I've not heard a voice but one voice
like that in the past forty years. He said, You've
got a voice like Fancy gild.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh, that's high praise.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah. Tony has worked with Vance a lot, and he's
produced the last twenty albums with George Straight. He's produced
Reba's albums. He's produced Dance with a lot of record
recordings and used vanced on a lot of his recordings.
And he's produced. Tony has produced more hit records than
(02:21):
anybody in Nashville. But when he heard Ben James saying,
he said, wow, he said, you're a brand new generation
the boys like Vince Giel.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, you guys are on your American Made Farewell Tour,
which is going to morph a bit here very soon
into the American Made Farewell Christmas Tour. And I know,
the biggest thing that I'm excited about is new music
from you guys. The album is called Mama's Boys. And
(02:54):
what I wanted to ask you about, William, is you
know your story growing up? You must have had an
amazing mom.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I did, and my mother, God rest her soul. She
was a poet. She loved writing poetry and she has
two poet books of her boy poetry, and but that's
she found comfort in telling her stories through poetry. She
enjoyed poetry. And yeah, for a the talent. My mother
(03:28):
also was loved music and she taught my my sister
how to play music. And she taught me how to
play music. And when I was six and seven years old,
my sister taught me how to play guitar. She was
three and a half years older, but she played mandolin,
(03:49):
guitar and piano. She still does, and she's a real talent.
And she needed a rhythm guitar player and a harmony
play so she taught me how to play guitar and
sing harmonies, and I learned that when I was sixty
seven and eight. We had to do it for a while,
and so I got in high school and my little
(04:12):
brother joined us. We had a trio. And then when
I was later in high school, I joined the FFA Quartet.
My first four part harmony is singing, and I enjoyed
singing in the quartet sounds too, So that's what led
me to have a lifetime love for quartet singing and
(04:38):
great harmony singing.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Well, it has certainly served you very well since you
joined the Oakrage Boys back in nineteen sixty five. I
really want to focus a little bit on this new
album and you're, you know, Mama's Boys, and they do
say in some of the press releases this is really
based on all of your guys' mom Which songs did
(05:01):
you or maybe it's all of them have a hand
in kind of getting out there on the album.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, there was a song that Ben James sing their
New Tenor Singers called Mama's Teaching Angels how to Sing.
It's a Dottie Rambo song and he did an incredible
job on that. I get to sing a song on
there that David Lee Murphy and ar Tearror Sing is
(05:29):
a brand new song they wrote for this album for
Dave Cobb. He had told him what we were doing
and asked him to write a song, and they wrote
the song that I recorded, called come on Home. It's
about a young boy leaving home and takes off in
his car and gets way out to la and the truckstof.
(05:51):
He calls back home and his brother says, come on
home if you're hurting, because you're never alone. Door is
always open and the lights are always home.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
That does sound and that does sound like a mom,
doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, But it's an up tempo song. And I get
to sing lead on that, So we different guys get
to sing different songs. But I love that one and
I'm just glad that I got to sing the lead
on it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I see that you're working with Willie too, Willie Nelson.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, WILLI wrote a song on there. Willie Nelson wrote,
I Thought about You Lord, and Dwayne sang the first
verse on that, and then Willy sang the second verse
and we all sing the choruses. So yeah, that's the
first time we've ever been able to record with Willie
(06:47):
Nelson recorded with a lot of people we recorded with everybody,
but we hadn't ever sang together.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I love that this meets then. I love it now.
If you're curious Mama's Boys. It's in stores right now.
You could get it at Oakridgeboys dot com, Amazon dot com.
It's streaming just about everywhere so you can get a
listen to it. See forty one million units sold so far.
(07:19):
And of course the big tour going on. I mean,
you guys have really done it all, and I love
that you're going to be around this area. But this
tour is going to feature old and new Oakridge.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Boys, right and we'll be singing two or three of
these brand new songs. We already doing two of them.
We're doing the Mama's Teaching Angels, have a sing featured
being James On Jenner, and were also singing the Thought
About You Lord with a Nelson song on stage. And
(07:53):
I want to learn the from own Home, the one
that I get to sing.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Oh yeah, well, I think people are going to be
blown away by your show. You were in here not
too long ago at one of our casinos. We loved
it absolutely and can't wait for you to get back
here to the Quad Cities. But in the meantime, if
you check their tour dates that you guys are not
far away from here and people will absolutely want to
(08:20):
travel to see the Oakridge Boys.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Well, anytime we get close, we invite everyone to come
see us. And we're on a paralwell tour, but we
really don't want to retire found out, you know, since
Ben James has been a godsend for the Oakridge Boys
and we're enjoyed singing now and it's been a healing
(08:44):
for us mentally, emotionally, physical and spiritual healing being able
to be together and sing songs together. And so it's
good for us to be able to go out and
be able to sing these songs because we need the
healing more than they Buddy.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Right now, William Lee Golden from the oak Ridge Boys,
thank you for being here. And again that new album
is Mama's Boys. You will want to hear it, buy
it and go see them.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Thank you then, Heil
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