March 11, 2025 • 5 mins
I always enjoyed getting to chat with Charlie Daniels.....there was no BS with Mr. Daniels. It was always the truth. We had a conversation one time about the Country Music Hall of Fame. I thought that limiting the selection of only 3 members a year was bad, Mr. Daniels felt the opposite. Here's a clip from that conversation. By the way if you would like to see the video interview, it's on the Bob Pickett Radio channel on YouTube. Thanks for listening, and thanks for viewing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Bob Peggott. This is Bob Pikett Radio. It's a podcast.
We try to do it daily for you. It's all
about my time in radio people that I've got to
been blessed to sit down and talk with interviews throughout
the years. And I found an interview that I did
years ago, the late great Charlie Daniels. You know, one
of the first records that I used to play on
the air back on my Sweetwater radio days, back when
(00:22):
I was in high school. I love to play Uneasy
Rider by Charlie Daniels long Haired country Boy. In fact,
I still love to play that song. Charlie Daniels. The
last time he was in the area, I had a
chance to go in and see him. And the audio
is going to sound a little bit funny here because
it was off off my iPhone. Technology has progressed. But
this conversation with Charlie, this has to be back in
(00:45):
twenty about five years ago, I guess probably in twenty twenty,
shortly before he passed away, a few months before he
passed away. But we were talking about the Hall of Fame.
You know, Charlie didn't get nominated inducted to the Country
Music Hall of Fame till he was eighty. So the conversation,
it seems like everybody has this conversation every year. Why
don't you name more people in the Hall of Fame?
(01:08):
Why they keep it limited to only three? I always
thought that we should increase that number. Charlie Daniels doesn't
think we should have increased that number. Here are his
thoughts again in this conversation from about five years ago,
shortly before he passed away.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
When I was a grande lumber and I was eighty
years old when he put me in Hall of Fame,
it's just a you know, I wouldn't concern it. I
was concerned, of course, I wasn't desiring my heart to
be but I hadn't decided if it never happened it,
I mean, the Hall of Fame was just completed off the.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Page for me.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I never thought that ever had at all, because I
don't equate myself with people like Ernest's tub and you know,
these people didn't get put in the Hall of Fame.
I don't look at myself in that same light at all.
But you're a legend, well you know, not in my
own mind.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Okay, but you are a legend you deserve it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I just don't I get something.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
They get a practicing and I'm looking at myself like that.
I just don't, you know, I don't wanna get it.
I've seen people that get to hire people that you
let and buy for what they're worth and stuff what
they make they're worth.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You know you read that. I've seen people like that,
and it's the lasest thing in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I want to be.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I don't be like that. I don't want you better
perceive being being that way.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
What do you think there's anybody that should be inducted
that hasn't been a.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Dun There's so many people should have been inducted, inducted
the head I mean, Ricky Skaggs.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, I'm not I'm not saying any but it should be.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
In there now what Ricky Skaggs.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I felt kind of bad about going in and Ricky
Skaggs is not in and of course they putting him
there a couple of years later, but I think he
should have been.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You know, I there's there's quite a few.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
People that I think there ain't juniors should be in there.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I think he probably won't be eventually. It's kind of
a process uh. I think they you know, they have
a a bunch of people and they tell you who
they are. If you don't know how they voted, you
know anything about it. And they go in and I
guess they come up with a list of names, and
everybody boats and whoever you know ends up with the
most boats by the committee.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
What do you think they should expand that list?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Though?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
M No, I don't. I think they should keep it
at three. Really yeah, I think they should gep it
because it means more that way.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
It does.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Think you can water something down, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's it's it's such a distinct honor to to be
one of the three chosen, and I think they should
leave it that way. And they don't think you get
right there to most of the people, they shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
There, right, But I also think it make that people
should enjoy the honor while they're still with us.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, it would be good to do that, but if
you start doing that, you start put giving the whole
bunch yer, you know it wouldn't it wouldn't mean thathing right,
So you're right in the water down, you know, ten
fifteen people going every year?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It be no ya, you don't want that man at all.
I think three is perfectly okay. Well, you know, whatever
he says, I'm gonna agree with him.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You know that, Well, I could easily agree with you
because I see your school about uh all means, I mean,
I understand what you're saying, because there are so many
people that we all feel like should be there that
are not there. There's right, they're gonna have to wait
a while to get boot in because like you say,
there's only three. But they do split the categories up.
At least they got the current artists and they're a
veteran artists and then somebody in the business you know
(04:00):
that they put in. So every field gets their chance
every year, and it's just a matter of who the
commune feels like is in the most of the country music.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Well, they've made a great choice they put you, and
I think they made a great choice for the honorees
this year too.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What I think they do, I think they do books
and done. Definitely.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Race was all deserved to be there, and of course
I was so taken when Rink he got put in it,
which I had so so wanted him to be there,
and I felt like he was one of the people.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
They surely got to put him up what I did.
But you know, always work.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'm waiting for Ader, I'm waiting for Teith Whitley, and
both of them are in it. Now, this again, this conversation.
A few months before mister Daniels passed away. Thank goodness,
he was inducted in the Hall of Fame and he
got to enjoy. That's one man right there. You always
knew where you stood with him. He never bs You
had never glossed anything. One of the nicest guys that
(04:53):
I've ever had the privilege to uh to interview and
and to visit with Charlie Daniels. We I think the
world could use a little more Charlie Daniels, don't you.
It's the Bob Picket Radio Podcast. By the way, if
you like, see the video of that interview. It's waiting
for you. Bob Picket Radio. The channel on YouTube, follow
me on Instagram, Bob Pickett Radio on Instagram. We'll catch
(05:13):
you back here tomorrow for another edition of the Bob
Picket Radio Podcast. I'm saying my name too much of
realizes that, and we'll see you on the air on
the radio, Bob Picket. I'll be here later on iHeartRadio
stations all across this great nation. Remember, keep it Country,
I'm Bob Peggott. This is Bob Pikett Radio. It's a podcast.
We try to do it daily for you. It's all
about my time in radio people that I've got to
been blessed to sit down and talk with interviews throughout
the years. And I found an interview that I did
years ago, the late great Charlie Daniels. You know, one
of the first records that I used to play on
the air back on my Sweetwater radio days, back when
(00:22):
I was in high school. I love to play Uneasy
Rider by Charlie Daniels long Haired country Boy. In fact,
I still love to play that song. Charlie Daniels. The
last time he was in the area, I had a
chance to go in and see him. And the audio
is going to sound a little bit funny here because
it was off off my iPhone. Technology has progressed. But
this conversation with Charlie, this has to be back in
(00:45):
twenty about five years ago, I guess probably in twenty twenty,
shortly before he passed away, a few months before he
passed away. But we were talking about the Hall of Fame.
You know, Charlie didn't get nominated inducted to the Country
Music Hall of Fame till he was eighty. So the conversation,
it seems like everybody has this conversation every year. Why
don't you name more people in the Hall of Fame?
(01:08):
Why they keep it limited to only three? I always
thought that we should increase that number. Charlie Daniels doesn't
think we should have increased that number. Here are his
thoughts again in this conversation from about five years ago,
shortly before he passed away.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
When I was a grande lumber and I was eighty
years old when he put me in Hall of Fame,
it's just a you know, I wouldn't concern it. I
was concerned, of course, I wasn't desiring my heart to
be but I hadn't decided if it never happened it,
I mean, the Hall of Fame was just completed off the.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Page for me.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I never thought that ever had at all, because I
don't equate myself with people like Ernest's tub and you know,
these people didn't get put in the Hall of Fame.
I don't look at myself in that same light at all.
But you're a legend, well you know, not in my
own mind.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Okay, but you are a legend you deserve it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I just don't I get something.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
They get a practicing and I'm looking at myself like that.
I just don't, you know, I don't wanna get it.
I've seen people that get to hire people that you
let and buy for what they're worth and stuff what
they make they're worth.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You know you read that. I've seen people like that,
and it's the lasest thing in the world.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I want to be.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I don't be like that. I don't want you better
perceive being being that way.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
What do you think there's anybody that should be inducted
that hasn't been a.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Dun There's so many people should have been inducted, inducted
the head I mean, Ricky Skaggs.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Well, I'm not I'm not saying any but it should be.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
In there now what Ricky Skaggs.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I felt kind of bad about going in and Ricky
Skaggs is not in and of course they putting him
there a couple of years later, but I think he
should have been.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
You know, I there's there's quite a few.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
People that I think there ain't juniors should be in there.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I think he probably won't be eventually. It's kind of
a process uh. I think they you know, they have
a a bunch of people and they tell you who
they are. If you don't know how they voted, you
know anything about it. And they go in and I
guess they come up with a list of names, and
everybody boats and whoever you know ends up with the
most boats by the committee.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
What do you think they should expand that list?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Though?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
M No, I don't. I think they should keep it
at three. Really yeah, I think they should gep it
because it means more that way.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
It does.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Think you can water something down, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's it's it's such a distinct honor to to be
one of the three chosen, and I think they should
leave it that way. And they don't think you get
right there to most of the people, they shouldn't be.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
There, right, But I also think it make that people
should enjoy the honor while they're still with us.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well, it would be good to do that, but if
you start doing that, you start put giving the whole
bunch yer, you know it wouldn't it wouldn't mean thathing right,
So you're right in the water down, you know, ten
fifteen people going every year?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
It be no ya, you don't want that man at all.
I think three is perfectly okay. Well, you know, whatever
he says, I'm gonna agree with him.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You know that, Well, I could easily agree with you
because I see your school about uh all means, I mean,
I understand what you're saying, because there are so many
people that we all feel like should be there that
are not there. There's right, they're gonna have to wait
a while to get boot in because like you say,
there's only three. But they do split the categories up.
At least they got the current artists and they're a
veteran artists and then somebody in the business you know
(04:00):
that they put in. So every field gets their chance
every year, and it's just a matter of who the
commune feels like is in the most of the country music.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Well, they've made a great choice they put you, and
I think they made a great choice for the honorees
this year too.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What I think they do, I think they do books
and done. Definitely.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Race was all deserved to be there, and of course
I was so taken when Rink he got put in it,
which I had so so wanted him to be there,
and I felt like he was one of the people.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
They surely got to put him up what I did.
But you know, always work.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I'm waiting for Ader, I'm waiting for Teith Whitley, and
both of them are in it. Now, this again, this conversation.
A few months before mister Daniels passed away. Thank goodness,
he was inducted in the Hall of Fame and he
got to enjoy. That's one man right there. You always
knew where you stood with him. He never bs You
had never glossed anything. One of the nicest guys that
(04:53):
I've ever had the privilege to uh to interview and
and to visit with Charlie Daniels. We I think the
world could use a little more Charlie Daniels, don't you.
It's the Bob Picket Radio Podcast. By the way, if
you like, see the video of that interview. It's waiting
for you. Bob Picket Radio. The channel on YouTube, follow
me on Instagram, Bob Pickett Radio on Instagram. We'll catch
(05:13):
you back here tomorrow for another edition of the Bob
Picket Radio Podcast. I'm saying my name too much of
realizes that, and we'll see you on the air on
the radio, Bob Picket. I'll be here later on iHeartRadio
stations all across this great nation. Remember, keep it Country,
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