March 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Nancy Jones, wife of the late great country music hall of famer George Jones joined us on the show to talk about a new project with some of George Jones biggest hits and more! Tune in as we take a trip down memory lane and laugh and have Nancy tell us some fun stories about The Possum!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, out This is Nancy Jones and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine on KYBN ninety eight point one, your.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
May Area Broadcasting network Ed.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Already been a busy week,
of course, The Warren Trety started us off this week
with Yours truly and Caden Gordon Out There again, presented
by the Caden Gordon Show. Out There, Today's best country
mix out there. And I told you guys, we saved
the best for last for this week. Like I said,
it's always good to have country music Royalty here on
(00:40):
the show. A new project is out there across all
the digital streaming platforms, the Lost Nashville Sessions on Vinyls
since it is March twenty first, and she'll know a
thing or two about royalty and country music because she
was married to one of the greatest of all time,
the possum George Jones. Out there, Miss Nancy Jones joins
us here on the Backstage Pass KKTC True Country ninety
(01:00):
nine point nine and out there KYBN ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Networking on iHeartRadio miss Nancy.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
How you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I am great, Brandon, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's been good, you know, like I said, getting back
in the swing of things this week after a week
off of vacation. We all need to recharge batteries, which
is a good thing. Kateen and I just came back
from Nashville, Tennessee from the Country radio seminar. Doing sixty
interviews in three days.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It's a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm done eleven so far today. I don't think I could.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Do sixty over Due and app day Span and Country
Radio Seminar at the Opno Hotel. Hey, let's talk about this.
I mentioned the vinyl at the top there. Obviously, you know,
one of the greats of all time. I know him
very well down here, being from and doing my show
from down here in bothmont Texas. Grew up down here,
he's from here. He loved this area so much down here,
and this was his country. I mean, this was country
(01:51):
music made to a t. Just talk about the relationship
with himfore we get to the project, and you know,
being married to him for a long time. He loved
Nancy being on stage and performing in front of an audience,
didn't he.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He did, and then he loved it one hour when
he was going to Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I mean, it's like he was going home and he
did love Texas, and I just I thought it was
just so sweet to see him when he we saw
something that was booked, especially in Beaumont.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
All you could see was nothing but him smiling.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
That's the beauty too. Hey.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, we talk about the songs, you know, for
so many things that he put out there, for those great,
great tunes of his illustrious career too. You know, we're
talking about this and a lot of them are going
to be, you know, on this project too, re released, remastered,
some some things there. I guess kind of dive in
to what made the songs so great, not just the
way he delivered it on stage, Nancy, but it had
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to be working with some of the best songwriters in Nashville, right,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And the album that we're talking about, the Lost National Session,
you know that was they called it a pitch session.
And that's whenever you say of Love bug Er, White
Lighting and was coming out. Then you go to the
radio stations and you sing those songs, and therefore you're
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singing your heart out because you know, you really have
to do it good for a radio station to pick
it up and then add it. So this is what
this album, these albums are about, is George Jones's Lost session.
And they call it that because once you go to
a radio station at back in the seventies and they
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played whatever you wanted them to hear, well, then they
threw them away. It was like in a dumpster. And
this is where Rex Allen Junior and Paul Martin got them.
And then they called me and said in twenty thirteen,
right after George died, and said, can we get your
permission to bring these out? And I said sure. I mean,
(03:54):
you know, I never heard from them again until last year.
They set the CD and I listened to and I
have never in my life hear anything so good.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And what they did is they just mixed it and
brought back if.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
They did the music like what's up for today, What's
far for today, but they did not do anything with
his voice. So what you're going to hear is this
crisp voice of George Jones on this album and this
vinyl and you're like, wow, if you shut your eyes,
it's like you're touching him.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
He's right there.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, and we're gonna play a couple of tracks here
coming up here in a few minutes, and it's gonna
feel like that original Crisp track that's out there all
the time too, and you get to hear the voice
that is just true golden to country music.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
When it came to the selection of songs, we're talking
sixteen songs out there too, And I was looking at
the digital streaming copy, which I love so much, and
I love how window up above really set the tone
for the record too. You mentioned the race is on.
We're gonna play the Grand Tour here in a little
bit too, But just so many great songs, tender years,
She's Mine and all these things we'll stand the test
of time for the Country Music Hall of Fame and
(05:03):
for George Jones fans, right.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Correct, correct, And you know you're gonna say, well, I've
heard those songs before, you never heard them this away.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And I had to touch on too before we played
the first track there off the record there the Lost
National Sessions, and it's available and viol coming up here
as of March twenty first, So we're going to look
out for that too as well, and we'll put a
link up on our page out there too. At the
same time, congratulations on winning an Emmy.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Who would have ever thought it little old Nancy Jones
gonna win Ammy?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But I did and I was so pleased.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And that was on the show that we did in Huntsville,
Alabama last year, and we had thirty five artists on there,
so every one of them was.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So kind, so good.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I mean I called them and I called them personally
myself and they were like, we'll be there, Countison, We're there.
And then one day Carlon said that I was up
for an Emmy. I'm like, yeah, sure, I'm not gonna
win that well, and I've never been so excited. I mean,
when they said the winner is George Jones playing Possum,
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you should have seen me. I like to fell out
of the chair. But I went up there and the
first person that I think was God forgiven me the
the courage to walk on that stage.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I love it too, And you know, we have to
talk about that because playing Possum, he kind of offered
that intimate look at your life. And of course, you
know you stood by this guy for thirty years. For
a long time, talk about the project just in itself
and playing possum because I really want to get into that.
And somebody always asked me why did they call him
the possum? And you know what, I know the reason
for that, but I want to let you explain to
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the fans who may not know, especially I say West
Coast out there are some new listeners we had why
they called him the possum, and of course what it
was like to stand by his side for over thirty years.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
There was this jockey named Tommy the Tongue, the Contrary,
and then Ralph Embry, and they started calling impossum because
they would say, at the side of his nose, if
you look at an album, he looks like apostle. So
at first George hated he hated it. I'm there somebody
calling me a postum. But then he loved it. I
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mean even his tags on his cars was a possum.
My tags on my car to day is the apostle.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Nancy. If you have the opportunity to collaborate with any
artist that may or may not be here today, who
would you choose and why would you choose them?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, I would have to choose Jamie Johnson.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Jamie has I've known him for many, many years, and
he has just he's come a long way.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I mean, he sings his heart out.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He loved George Jones, and he's just a true friend,
but not just being a friend is his voice is
absolutely wonderful, and I would have to choose Jamie Johnson.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
That's a great.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
We're about to actually hear off the track out there,
the lost Nashville sessions out there too, which is available
in vinyl as of March twenty first, and this was
again remastered, and you're not gonna hear it anywhere else
like this except for the radio stations were planted on
KYB in ninety eight point one, unless you get the
vinyl album or the CD out there, the digital streaming
copy out there too. At the same time, it's a
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window up above from the late great George Jones. More
with Nancy Jones here KKTC True Country ninety nine point
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in the flax, Stay tuned, Mordicut.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I've been living a new way of live that I
love soul.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
But I can see the clouds again.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
And the storm will recond.
Speaker 8 (09:05):
By last night he hurted your time.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
And you indeed even show this is true, for I've
been watch.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I'm going now up above.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
You must have thought that I was sneed and I
wish that I had, But I guess it's best to
know you.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
And the way your heart.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
You see.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
I thought we belonged a game.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
And the heartsmen like a blood.
Speaker 8 (09:56):
I was wrong, for I been watching.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Let Run Moming, Do Up the Bun.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
Bumb Eyes, the Tear Drop Star. As I listen Going
and Home, I heard you.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
Whisper to him song please that our marriage was all wrong.
But I hope it makes you happy.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And you will now lose his love.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
I lost mine while I was watching.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Watch um Moving, do up the Blood.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
Now.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I wish I could.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Wake up tune show.
Speaker 11 (11:14):
I'm joy.
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Speaker 4 (12:05):
And back here with Tad and Gordon.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Here.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That was Window up above from the lost Nashville sessions.
Back here, Brendan morel KKTC True Country ninety nine point
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Area Broadcasting Network. Back here with the great Nancy Jones
here again, the wife of the late great George Jones,
the Country Music Hall of Famer out there too, and
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proud to be from Beaumont, Texas. Down here too, and
talk about this. You know, we mentioned that song, Nancy,
and it's just something from the chorus. When you talk
about a song that sets a tone for the record,
like Window up above, and you listen to that first note,
that first instrumentation. We talked about how clean and Chris
this was out there too. I invite people to go
get that final copy out there too. What a song
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and just you know, a song for him that really
told a story and Window up Above right?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, well, I know he said he wrote it like
early one morning, setting at the kitchen table, and you
know this, this is a pretty good song, I might
go ahead and record that, and he did, and it's
been a hit ever since.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
And he did a good job on it. And he
definitely did a good job on this new Uh. When
you pick up this new album.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yes, when you pick up this new album too, I
love that one because you got a lot of a
great backing on this. So that was actually, uh, the
Forbes was Window up Above and it was really cool
to see that out there too. I know the physical
copies are available at Walmart. I think that's the CDs.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Correct, Walmart and Amazon.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And Amazon out there too, so let people know about.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
That Amazon, Okay, the Music Universe, Whiskey Riff and Forbes.
An American songwriter Nancy got behind the project too. Did
some belief previews of it?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yes, I don't know if you know who Paul Martin is,
that makes absolutely Oh and he wonderful he is, and
and Rux Allen Jr. So they worked really hard on
this album. And I think once that somebody listens to this.
You're going to keep it a collection the rest of
your life, and you're probably gonna end up getting your mother,
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your grandmother, your grandfather, everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You're gonna get a copy of this.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
They really will, you know what, kayateon we got to
get a copy of this too, because I'm going to
play this on the vinyl record.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Yeah, we got to get a copy.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, this is It's one thing to listen to it
on the digital side. I can't wait to hear it
on the vinyl side because if people say there's a difference,
yes there is. I actually bought a new record player
few years ago and I'm just waiting waiting for the
right time to turn it back on here, and it's
going to be the right time for this.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
So with vinyls coming back, it's a brand new thing
where vinyls are just coming back. What's your intake on that, Nancy,
and tell us more about that.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I love vinyl. I always love vinyl.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I think you can get your CDs and that they
sound okay, but on a vinyl, I mean it is
just perfect everything on there.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And that's why I've always been a vinyl fan. I've
collected vinyls all my life, and.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And especially this one. I love I love this on them.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You know, I'll tell you My mom had the biggest
I say, crush on him too. She always said, that's
a good looking, good looking man right there too when
he came down the way to things like that too,
and and uh, like I said, my actually a good
story here, Nancy. My mom actually had taught Tracy Bird
in school, Tracy burd Gosh.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I used to have those little bad boys. I called
him Beaumont boys. I was Tracy Chestnut and what what
like Tracy Bird, Mark Chestnut, what's the other?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh? Clay Walker. Clay Walker was a handful of honey.
He was a handful and Tracy Bird.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
He was on the show for the when I got
to Eve, he was on that show, and uh, he
was just so kind and so good. And I just
can't get over how they're all grown up now and
got kids of their own, and some of them grandpa's.
You know, it's un to realize that I used to
work them out there at Jones Country playing possum.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
It was just that intimate look he mentioned of the life.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And of course, you know, standing by his side there too,
and you know he had I don't going too much
into it, but they said he had some behaviors when
it came down to it, too, because when he got frustrated.
My mom would tell me stories of watching him back
in the day too. Sometimes he just singing a song.
If it wasn't to his liking, he would tell somebody.
He would always say, you know what, he was pretty
much kind of that hammer that hit the nail, because
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if he didn't like it, Nancy, he would he would
tell something or call somebody out to at the same time,
because he really had he loved what he did. He
had a passion for it too, but he had that
I don't want to say self destructive behavior.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
But when something didn't go his way, he let people
know about it, didn't he Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yes, yes?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And I used to get so mad at him for
doing it. He's like, well they made me mad, that's it.
The sound was terrible, this and that. I'm like, can
you just not get so mad? But no, he was perfectionist.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
He really was.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And I've never seen anybody that loved true music as
much as George Jones.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
He lived, he breathed it. I've never you couldn't change him.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And I'm glad that we couldn't because he died still
loving country music. And you know, if you watch the
one hundredth anniversary of the Opry, you would see that,
like Luke Combs, he comes out of Thing's Grand Tour.
So I love that because that draws more of younger kids, like, well,
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if Luke Combs likes George Jones, maybe we should. And
also with Garth coming out on the one hundredth anniversary
when he said that the greatest country singer ever, it
was George Jones and he had the greatest country song ever.
And you know that's another thing that I was just
so proud to hear that on the one hundredth anniversary, and.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Garth is so true. I mean he just really loved George.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah. I love that too.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And of course I know those artists were included and
still played past if you had Jelly Roll, you had
Brad Paisley, you had Travis Tritt, Uncle Cracker, I mean
these these Gretchen Wilson, I mean we were talking about Household,
Tracy Bird, Jenny Fricky, good friend of the show there too.
T Graham Brown just got inducted Nancy into that Grand
ol Lopery too. So all these artists coming out to
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pay homage and tribute to the late great George Jones
and what he meant to country music for this particular project,
were still playing positive talk about that.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
For me, that that was just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I mean, it's just when I called him, nobody said no,
and Tracy Bird, like I said, he was so sweet.
He says, count me in, I'm there, and every one
of them it's like, I'm in, I'm in, And you know,
I figured.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
On, well, I got a call five more times, ten
more time began. I did not have to do that.
Not one time I made the call.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
They were there and it was like a three day
thing because you had do sound check and then you
had to come out and do sound.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Check at the place.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And it was just unbelievable the time that they spent
of their own time to come there and do that show.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I'm sure his his lifetime. He had to tell you
some some great stories on the road. I'm sure there
had to be some great road stories. If there's one
that you could share with us, that is, I guess
a clean version of one subject you share here too.
But is there one road story that just really could
you couldn't stop laughing when he told you that. Can
you share that with us?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I can tell you one of the embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He was sick and show up for this show, so
I said, so we rescheduled it. And I said, now,
don't go out there and say you were drunk and
you didn't show up. Oh, I ain't gonna do that,
I said, I mean it, George, don't don't just say
that you were sick.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
He goes out there and the first thing.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Out of his mouth, my wife wants me to tell
y'all that I was sick, but I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I was just drunk and I didn't show up.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I tried to find me a place to hide.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
He threw me under the bus.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I guess that was real yeah, real hard under the
bus right there too, trying to find a place to
hide Doe down.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Well, I tell you what.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
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Make sure you guys go grab a copy or across
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is there's a format for everybody out there too, so
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Speaker 4 (20:47):
Back in the flash. Here it is the Grand Tour
from the late great George Jones, cranking out stip right,
come on in.
Speaker 14 (20:57):
If you die by the Grand to b the lonely House.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Walts was home, sweet home.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
I have nothing here to sell, just some things that
I will tell you, somethings I know will chill you
to the ball.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Oh there sits the chair.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Where she breed the prie.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Purdue me and sit down, no money.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Whispering, Oh I love, but now she's done forever?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Are this all as well? Now be the same.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
We love the lone that we wants me.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Straighter.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Ha, that's the thing.
Speaker 14 (22:22):
Where we lie lone together.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Nor no we have.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Being doll in.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
You see her pitch.
Speaker 14 (22:41):
All the table, gall in the blood share be a bar.
Speaker 15 (22:49):
Just to let me.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
So good no more. Here are serving over things.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
And your ball dobrim. The poll said not you up
them with she tall my wall the ball.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
As you you'll see the nursery.
Speaker 14 (23:26):
Oh seen up me without bussy, nothing, my baby, my fall.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
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Speaker 4 (23:55):
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Speaker 5 (24:24):
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one your Bay Area Broadcasting Network. You know you mentioned
this one, Nancy and that cattalog of just great songs,
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and boy, he delivered another great vocal performance on this again,
this remastered re released on this particular project for the
Lost Nashville Sessions.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
He did a number on the Grand Tour, didn't he?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Oh, isn't that a great song?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And you know at the grave site for he's buried,
we got sixty eight plots. I told him, I said, George,
we don't need sixty eight plots.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
He said, now, honey, I'm not gonna be crowded out
here like you gotta be dead. You're not gonna know that.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
So they put a fence around it, the whole sixty
eight plots out there, and then they put a gate up.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
So I went out there one day and I'm like,
you can't do that. They said, why not?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I said, I will never ever put a gate up
and block George's fans. So I had him to make
me up a sign and it says step right up,
come on then.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
So that's that's at his grave site, at the gate.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Oh man, what a tribute that is. To as well.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Hey, you know what's so important is even when artists now,
even these days now, are putting out records, EPs, singles,
it all comes down to you mentioned how they used
that original voice he had so pure for country music too,
and didn't change anything on that. But talk about the producers, Nancy,
that really made this project. I want to give them
props that really made this come to life too well.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Paul Martin that is one of the Oakridge boys, Dwayne
that's that's his son in law, and as you know,
because I think you know him, and he was just
absolutely wonderful. And Rex Allen Jr. That were just great
putting this together.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And producing this and keeping it the way that they
knew that I wanted it to be kept. And I
couldn't ask for anything any better than the way they
did it.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
They did it justice, no doubt about it. I love
that too.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
At the same time, you know, we talked about how
great he was, you know, on stage and just a
great performer, and he loved what he did, eat live
and breathe there too. At the same time, but I
know that that travel had to be wear and tear
on him. As you get later into the career and
things like that. But you know, even then, he was
always about putting out one song, as most artists are.
They never resting their laurels, and then they're writing something else,
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working toward the next project and the next release and
things like that. Talk about his work ethic because you know,
even to have a Hall of Fame career like he's had,
he had to wake up in the mornings, have a
routine things like that. You know, when he's going to
go do you know, writers rounds or write his own material,
which he was good at doing. He was great at doing,
no doubt about it. But looking back, work ethic and
how important that is in the industry. He knew it best,
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didn't he.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Nancy George was he was a very shy person, very shy,
so he when he would do songs or whatever, he
would do like him and Jamie Johnson. They started writing
together before George died, but they never finished anything.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But he's the type.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
That I used to tell him, why don't you write
songs like you used to? He said, Honey, I'm not
hungry no more. You write a good song when you're hungry.
And I thought that love that makes sense. You know,
you know, you got to you got to put something
out there to get some money.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And he was just he was He was just a true,
honest man.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I got to ask you about the Grand Old Opry again.
We talk about to so many artists here on the
program who have stepped inside that center circle, Nancy, and
they say it's the most kind of just that moment
of like the holy ghost on them too, in that
center circle. You know, Kate and I've got a chance
to kind of go backstage and broadcast during Sunday Morning
Country they do every year during CMA Week, which is
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another fantastic event there too, but looking at it, watching
it from the audience and then stepping inside the circle
as a musician or two or three different things right.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
There in combination.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
But that had to be amazing for him every time
he went back to play the Grand Ole Opry. What
a special tribute for him and for you to watch
it there too at the same time.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Oh, absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I was really surprised whenever they came out and did
their presentation of George Jones and to do that on
the opera. You know, so many people are watching that,
and I feel like that Drew, George to younger kids,
because if Luke Combs can sing George Jones, if Garth
(29:23):
Groops can talk about George Jones, you don't think they're
gonna not go on and google that.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
They will definitely do that too.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
So Brandon asked you if there was something that went
super well, well, you guys are on the road. What
is something that went terribly wrong and you wish you
could redo it all over again?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Well, that would be when George would get so mad
at the sound check. Oh, my son was mad if
the sound was bad. I think everybody was as soon
as the show was over, trying to find a place
to hide because he just squilled or if it did this.
That was one thing that I used to just drey it.
Oh please, Jim Owens, don't let that squoil tonight. And
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you know that's that's one thing he would rather than that.
He was fine, I mean, he had fun on the stage.
But if that sound was messed up, oh, it just
throw him completely off.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
He was a perfection, has no doubt about it, dude.
I'll tell you that even in concerts, man, it just
sounded just like a track. Listened to it there on
streaming or of course some of the old vinyl records
and the old people like.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
What's cassette tapes? I had to set tapes.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Back then too, So that shows my age there too,
when I grew up listening to the legendre already got
to have a little fun with you too, because I've yet,
I've passed by it there at the Country Music Hall
of Fame, and I want to see his wing in there.
And the next time we get back to the summer
for week myself, man, Kayden, I'm making it time during
what downtime we had to purchase my ticket go inside
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there and see his wing at the Country Music Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Obviously, with all that kind of.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Went as planned, you know, to put certain items and
artifacts and things that were personal items from him. Was
it kind of hard to choose Nancy and talk about
just the wing in the Country Music Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
What can fans expect to see?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Well, I would like to have a bigger place there,
a bigger one to put a lot more stuff in there,
because you know, you can go on and on and
on with George Jones, and you just you want to
see more. That's how I feel, and I want a
bigger spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame, and
I have been working with them on that. And then
(31:34):
you know that I've got another thing that's happening is
that I had this. They did the Country Music Hall
of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry. They've made this
statue of George that we will unveil in April. And
I'll let you know more about this, so y'all can
come in and be at that little party.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Oh man, I'll tell you what a good time we
have to come in and be at that too.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Let all of y'all know to come in.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I just want to come in and see that wing,
no doubt too. And like I said, all those great
artifacts jackets, and like I said, even shoes or pants
or a shirt or something. Like I said, those old
pearl snapshirts. I know he loved those two at the
same time, didn't.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
He, And theso.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Lots of those do it.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Of course, Hey, those those guitars, man, like I said,
he loved playing guitar and stepping in front of a microphone.
Speaker 13 (32:30):
There.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I just again my favorite artist of all time when
it came back to that seventies, eighties, nineties country. He
just did so much on that too, all right, we're
gonna have a little fun nancy and clothing. We like
to do a little thing called rapid fire. We asked
a series of funny questions, and you know, our thing
is we never know what response we're gonna get. It's
fair game out there too, So we just rolled it
out there too, and see what comes. Food wise in Nashville.
(32:52):
No shortage of it. When it comes to restaurants on
every corner out there. It seems like I find something
new every time I go. Talk about some favorite play
is that you like to eat there in Nashville, and
maybe some of the places that he being George Jones,
he liked to eat.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
George was a potato meatman, and that was it corn bread.
So in Franklin at that time it was Cracker Barrel.
He would go to Cracker Barrel every morning for breakfast
and then for dinner or whatever. It was like carabas
(33:27):
or whatever. But he liked the meat and three that
was his favorite of anything. It was like he said, well,
I like the pento beans, I like the purple whole peas,
mashed potatoes, gravy, corn bread, fried okra, chocolate pies.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
That was George, all right, What was yours and his
two parts of here favorite hobbies when he wasn't doing music.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
What did he enjoys a hobby? And yourself too, staying.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Home And what we did was he had his golf
cart and we would ride all over the hundred and
something acres that we hit and he just loved porton. Okay,
tell tell him to come cut this tree down, tell
him to do this.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I mean he and his place was like a golf course.
He would buy the.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Kids four wheelers and stuff, but they wasn't allowed to
run on the grass. I never did figure that one out.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
He rode that golf cart.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
He loved that, and like you said, important things out
for things to get done, no doubt about it too,
making sure list got that. Did you have a one
of those honey to do lists for him to get done?
Basically for his chores?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Are you kidting? George didn't do no honey to do list.
His was like, honey, well we have.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
For summer or not. He wasn't a cook, right.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
No, no, no.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I love the meat potato story. That's awesome. He didn't
know vegetables.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Vegetables did existed his Uh, okay, well meet meat potatoes
unless you got well purple hole peas can. Yeah it's
not meat potatoes, but I still love purple hole piece
oh too. I growed up in the country. Hey, we
know a little song around here in Southeast Texas. There
was a school here called the Vider Pirates. And you
may remember this story too, And this song was back
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in the This had to be fifties or sixties. And
I can't remember. My mom would actually know the year
here too. Maybe it may have been nineteen fifty six.
I remember if this was right, But they I want
to say it was the last run they had as
a high school football team to the state championship. I'm
not sure if you know this story, but they used
that song or a version of that song, the Race
(35:35):
is On in their quest for a state championship run.
And I remember my mother's story, but I wanted to
ask you that was just such an up tempo song
and made people feel something that really could put them
inside of a song, because not just how fast Nancy,
life is.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Out there for all of us on just this clock.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
We continue to ride, no doubt, but that song really
puts you in a moment to describe that life is
this way. The race is on no doubt about it
from the title and all the lyrics really really meant
something to fans, right.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Make you jump around moment. I love that song too.
I don't think I can think of.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
That.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I did not like.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
He did that one there, And I'll tell you got
to remember love Bug. A comment on that one for
me too, because love Bug had to be one of
your favorites too, write.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Oh my god, this that hey, yeah, it's on here too,
love Bug.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Yeah, I love that one too.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
At the same time, and then I love that because
there was just another one that really made me feel good.
A picture of me and in parentheses without you. That's
also on there too, Right.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
That's a good one. You though It's wrong with Me
is a good one too.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
There's another good one, and you know, I want to
get you your take on it's also on the record.
There to a lot of again those greatest hits that
come back, but tender years make people feel something in
a way that they look at life and a different perspective. Right,
what about tender years?
Speaker 11 (37:02):
Tender years, Like I said, all of these were before
my time, but I know them because then they were
brought back, you know, But tender years I love this
song too, but I think I picked a lot more
of that I like better than Tender Years.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
And then you know, I got to mention the nineteen
eighty classic. This was on that sixteen Biggest Hits record
that he had, and everybody, we'll sing this one today
for tribute shows or anything out there. He stopped loving
her today. Amazing right on here, though not on that one.
But I had to bring it up to because every
time you heard that one sung at the same time,
(37:39):
you had to kind of put yourself in a position.
We've all gone through life experiences where we can understand
the lyrics and feel the true meaning of that song.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Right, that was a wonderful song. I mean that song
still brings tears to my eyes today. It sung at a.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Lot, a lot of funerals, and if I'm at one,
I'm crying my eyes out.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I would probably cry my eyes out if I didn't
even know who was in that.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
And then I'll take you back to see this this
Joe's my age too, a little bit in nineteen seventy
six Golden Ring, There's not a day goes by. I'm
sure that one doesn't get played as well too, right,
I love that song too.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And you know, me and Tanny were really good friends,
a lot better friends than George and Tammy.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
I love that one too. And then we talked a
little bit about some of those but you know, looking
back at some of some of the greats out there.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
I don't need your rock and chair.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
So that has to be one that stand the test
of time for it for classic country, right.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Oh yeah, And then Billy Yates wrote that, you know,
and we're still great friends today, but that one was
a wonderful song. I mean, and George when he would
sing that, I swear I thought he was going to
dance off the stage.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Is he good at dancing? No? No?
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And without four feet?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
So you were better, right, I was better than he was.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Yes, I he loved that song too.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Jerror, all right, I gotta ask you this, because hey,
he loved the next thing when it came down to it,
as much as the next person when it come to
their favorite beverage. For him, his favorite alcoholic beverage, whether
it be whiskey, jin bourbon, whatever it was.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Oh it was whiskey?
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Was whiskey?
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Did he have a particular kind Jack Daniels, Okay, So
he loves some JD.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I hated it.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I knew she was going to say that save that
well that comes to the drinking, gets a little bit
of that feisty attitude.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Right, Yeah, yeah, he got a little too spicy, too
feisty with it. But do you know what, We whipped
those the ones and we got him out of there
and they were gone. And he didn't touch a drink
after he hit that bridge in uh Franklin. And after
that he didn't drink, he didn't smoke. And that's why
I can sit here and tell you that I know
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George Jones is in Heaven.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Oh no doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Any contributions you make through your lifetime there too. At
the same time, and you know what, hey, being a
country music musician, you're allowed to have a little bit
of fun too. At the same time. It's called entertainment.
You're entertaining a crowd, and you're allowed to have a
few drinks here and there too, and always tell people
a drink responsibly out there too, and listen to all
this great music out there again, the Lost Nationale sessions.
You can get it across all the digital streaming platforms
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out there too.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
It's but out since November.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
The vinyl comedy is available and it forced the CDs
at Walmart and Amazon two at the same time. Nancy
appreciate the time and coming on and sharing some of
the stories of the late great George Jones. You knew
him the best when it came down to it, and
always fun to laugh and cut up a little bit
and tell some stories about, in my mind, in my opinion,
(40:44):
the greatest country music singer of all time. We appreciate
the time here on KKTZ Country ninety nine point nine
and KYBN ninety eight point one, and we look forward
to just sharing this music and these projects. Congratulations on
the Emmy, and hope you enjoyed the experience. We loved
having you, We really did.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Thank you both. I had a great time.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Thank you, you got it. Nancy Jones here on the
backstage pass. We're back with more great music again again,
powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com and out
there KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting
network and our friends at KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine back with more great shows coming up next week.
It is the week of the twenty fourth. I cannot
believe where March has gone, but more great shows coming
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up over the next few weeks, featuring some of the
biggest and brightest artists in country music out there too.
We'll see you on the flip side. Take care, God
bless Hey.
Speaker 17 (41:32):
This is Nashville recording artist Anita Cochran and you're listening
to the Backstage Pass podcast powered by the Sports Guys
Podcasts Exclusively. I'm KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine
in Taos, New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Hey y'all, this is Nashville recording artists Bradley Gilbert and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past KYBN ninety
eight point one.
Hi, out This is Nancy Jones and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KKTC True Country ninety
nine point nine on KYBN ninety eight point one, your.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
May Area Broadcasting network Ed.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Welcome inside the Backstage Pass. Already been a busy week,
of course, The Warren Trety started us off this week
with Yours truly and Caden Gordon Out There again, presented
by the Caden Gordon Show. Out There, Today's best country
mix out there. And I told you guys, we saved
the best for last for this week. Like I said,
it's always good to have country music Royalty here on
(00:40):
the show. A new project is out there across all
the digital streaming platforms, the Lost Nashville Sessions on Vinyls
since it is March twenty first, and she'll know a
thing or two about royalty and country music because she
was married to one of the greatest of all time,
the possum George Jones. Out there, Miss Nancy Jones joins
us here on the Backstage Pass KKTC True Country ninety
(01:00):
nine point nine and out there KYBN ninety eight point one,
your Bay Area Broadcasting Networking on iHeartRadio miss Nancy.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
How you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I am great, Brandon, how are you?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's been good, you know, like I said, getting back
in the swing of things this week after a week
off of vacation. We all need to recharge batteries, which
is a good thing. Kateen and I just came back
from Nashville, Tennessee from the Country radio seminar. Doing sixty
interviews in three days.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It's a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm done eleven so far today. I don't think I could.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Do sixty over Due and app day Span and Country
Radio Seminar at the Opno Hotel. Hey, let's talk about this.
I mentioned the vinyl at the top there. Obviously, you know,
one of the greats of all time. I know him
very well down here, being from and doing my show
from down here in bothmont Texas. Grew up down here,
he's from here. He loved this area so much down here,
and this was his country. I mean, this was country
(01:51):
music made to a t. Just talk about the relationship
with himfore we get to the project, and you know,
being married to him for a long time. He loved
Nancy being on stage and performing in front of an audience,
didn't he.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
He did, and then he loved it one hour when
he was going to Texas.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I mean, it's like he was going home and he
did love Texas, and I just I thought it was
just so sweet to see him when he we saw
something that was booked, especially in Beaumont.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
All you could see was nothing but him smiling.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
That's the beauty too. Hey.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You know, we talk about the songs, you know, for
so many things that he put out there, for those great,
great tunes of his illustrious career too. You know, we're
talking about this and a lot of them are going
to be, you know, on this project too, re released, remastered,
some some things there. I guess kind of dive in
to what made the songs so great, not just the
way he delivered it on stage, Nancy, but it had
(02:45):
to be working with some of the best songwriters in Nashville, right,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And the album that we're talking about, the Lost National Session,
you know that was they called it a pitch session.
And that's whenever you say of Love bug Er, White
Lighting and was coming out. Then you go to the
radio stations and you sing those songs, and therefore you're
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singing your heart out because you know, you really have
to do it good for a radio station to pick
it up and then add it. So this is what
this album, these albums are about, is George Jones's Lost session.
And they call it that because once you go to
a radio station at back in the seventies and they
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played whatever you wanted them to hear, well, then they
threw them away. It was like in a dumpster. And
this is where Rex Allen Junior and Paul Martin got them.
And then they called me and said in twenty thirteen,
right after George died, and said, can we get your
permission to bring these out? And I said sure. I mean,
(03:54):
you know, I never heard from them again until last year.
They set the CD and I listened to and I
have never in my life hear anything so good.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And what they did is they just mixed it and
brought back if.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
They did the music like what's up for today, What's
far for today, but they did not do anything with
his voice. So what you're going to hear is this
crisp voice of George Jones on this album and this
vinyl and you're like, wow, if you shut your eyes,
it's like you're touching him.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
He's right there.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yeah, and we're gonna play a couple of tracks here
coming up here in a few minutes, and it's gonna
feel like that original Crisp track that's out there all
the time too, and you get to hear the voice
that is just true golden to country music.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
When it came to the selection of songs, we're talking
sixteen songs out there too, And I was looking at
the digital streaming copy, which I love so much, and
I love how window up above really set the tone
for the record too. You mentioned the race is on.
We're gonna play the Grand Tour here in a little
bit too, But just so many great songs, tender years,
She's Mine and all these things we'll stand the test
of time for the Country Music Hall of Fame and
(05:03):
for George Jones fans, right.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Correct, correct, And you know you're gonna say, well, I've
heard those songs before, you never heard them this away.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And I had to touch on too before we played
the first track there off the record there the Lost
National Sessions, and it's available and viol coming up here
as of March twenty first, So we're going to look
out for that too as well, and we'll put a
link up on our page out there too. At the
same time, congratulations on winning an Emmy.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Who would have ever thought it little old Nancy Jones
gonna win Ammy?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
But I did and I was so pleased.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And that was on the show that we did in Huntsville,
Alabama last year, and we had thirty five artists on there,
so every one of them was.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So kind, so good.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I mean I called them and I called them personally
myself and they were like, we'll be there, Countison, We're there.
And then one day Carlon said that I was up
for an Emmy. I'm like, yeah, sure, I'm not gonna
win that well, and I've never been so excited. I mean,
when they said the winner is George Jones playing Possum,
(06:09):
you should have seen me. I like to fell out
of the chair. But I went up there and the
first person that I think was God forgiven me the
the courage to walk on that stage.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I love it too, And you know, we have to
talk about that because playing Possum, he kind of offered
that intimate look at your life. And of course, you
know you stood by this guy for thirty years. For
a long time, talk about the project just in itself
and playing possum because I really want to get into that.
And somebody always asked me why did they call him
the possum? And you know what, I know the reason
for that, but I want to let you explain to
(06:39):
the fans who may not know, especially I say West
Coast out there are some new listeners we had why
they called him the possum, and of course what it
was like to stand by his side for over thirty years.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
There was this jockey named Tommy the Tongue, the Contrary,
and then Ralph Embry, and they started calling impossum because
they would say, at the side of his nose, if
you look at an album, he looks like apostle. So
at first George hated he hated it. I'm there somebody
calling me a postum. But then he loved it. I
(07:11):
mean even his tags on his cars was a possum.
My tags on my car to day is the apostle.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Nancy. If you have the opportunity to collaborate with any
artist that may or may not be here today, who
would you choose and why would you choose them?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Well, I would have to choose Jamie Johnson.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Jamie has I've known him for many, many years, and
he has just he's come a long way.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I mean, he sings his heart out.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He loved George Jones, and he's just a true friend,
but not just being a friend is his voice is
absolutely wonderful, and I would have to choose Jamie Johnson.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
That's a great.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
We're about to actually hear off the track out there,
the lost Nashville sessions out there too, which is available
in vinyl as of March twenty first, and this was
again remastered, and you're not gonna hear it anywhere else
like this except for the radio stations were planted on
KYB in ninety eight point one, unless you get the
vinyl album or the CD out there, the digital streaming
copy out there too. At the same time, it's a
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window up above from the late great George Jones. More
with Nancy Jones here KKTC True Country ninety nine point
nine and are friends of KYBN again, your Bay Area
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Speaker 4 (12:05):
And back here with Tad and Gordon.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Here.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That was Window up above from the lost Nashville sessions.
Back here, Brendan morel KKTC True Country ninety nine point
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Area Broadcasting Network. Back here with the great Nancy Jones
here again, the wife of the late great George Jones,
the Country Music Hall of Famer out there too, and
(12:27):
proud to be from Beaumont, Texas. Down here too, and
talk about this. You know, we mentioned that song, Nancy,
and it's just something from the chorus. When you talk
about a song that sets a tone for the record,
like Window up above, and you listen to that first note,
that first instrumentation. We talked about how clean and Chris
this was out there too. I invite people to go
get that final copy out there too. What a song
(12:48):
and just you know, a song for him that really
told a story and Window up Above right?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Well, well, I know he said he wrote it like
early one morning, setting at the kitchen table, and you
know this, this is a pretty good song, I might
go ahead and record that, and he did, and it's
been a hit ever since.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
And he did a good job on it. And he
definitely did a good job on this new Uh. When
you pick up this new album.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yes, when you pick up this new album too, I
love that one because you got a lot of a
great backing on this. So that was actually, uh, the
Forbes was Window up Above and it was really cool
to see that out there too. I know the physical
copies are available at Walmart. I think that's the CDs.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Correct, Walmart and Amazon.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And Amazon out there too, so let people know about.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
That Amazon, Okay, the Music Universe, Whiskey Riff and Forbes.
An American songwriter Nancy got behind the project too. Did
some belief previews of it?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yes, I don't know if you know who Paul Martin is,
that makes absolutely Oh and he wonderful he is, and
and Rux Allen Jr. So they worked really hard on
this album. And I think once that somebody listens to this.
You're going to keep it a collection the rest of
your life, and you're probably gonna end up getting your mother,
(14:07):
your grandmother, your grandfather, everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
You're gonna get a copy of this.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
They really will, you know what, kayateon we got to
get a copy of this too, because I'm going to
play this on the vinyl record.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Yeah, we got to get a copy.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Yeah, this is It's one thing to listen to it
on the digital side. I can't wait to hear it
on the vinyl side because if people say there's a difference,
yes there is. I actually bought a new record player
few years ago and I'm just waiting waiting for the
right time to turn it back on here, and it's
going to be the right time for this.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
So with vinyls coming back, it's a brand new thing
where vinyls are just coming back. What's your intake on that, Nancy,
and tell us more about that.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
I love vinyl. I always love vinyl.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I think you can get your CDs and that they
sound okay, but on a vinyl, I mean it is
just perfect everything on there.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And that's why I've always been a vinyl fan. I've
collected vinyls all my life, and.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
And especially this one. I love I love this on them.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
You know, I'll tell you My mom had the biggest
I say, crush on him too. She always said, that's
a good looking, good looking man right there too when
he came down the way to things like that too,
and and uh, like I said, my actually a good
story here, Nancy. My mom actually had taught Tracy Bird
in school, Tracy burd Gosh.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I used to have those little bad boys. I called
him Beaumont boys. I was Tracy Chestnut and what what
like Tracy Bird, Mark Chestnut, what's the other?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh? Clay Walker. Clay Walker was a handful of honey.
He was a handful and Tracy Bird.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
He was on the show for the when I got
to Eve, he was on that show, and uh, he
was just so kind and so good. And I just
can't get over how they're all grown up now and
got kids of their own, and some of them grandpa's.
You know, it's un to realize that I used to
work them out there at Jones Country playing possum.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
It was just that intimate look he mentioned of the life.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
And of course, you know, standing by his side there too,
and you know he had I don't going too much
into it, but they said he had some behaviors when
it came down to it, too, because when he got frustrated.
My mom would tell me stories of watching him back
in the day too. Sometimes he just singing a song.
If it wasn't to his liking, he would tell somebody.
He would always say, you know what, he was pretty
much kind of that hammer that hit the nail, because
(16:27):
if he didn't like it, Nancy, he would he would
tell something or call somebody out to at the same time,
because he really had he loved what he did. He
had a passion for it too, but he had that
I don't want to say self destructive behavior.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
But when something didn't go his way, he let people
know about it, didn't he Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yes, yes?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
And I used to get so mad at him for
doing it. He's like, well they made me mad, that's it.
The sound was terrible, this and that. I'm like, can
you just not get so mad? But no, he was perfectionist.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
He really was.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
And I've never seen anybody that loved true music as
much as George Jones.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
He lived, he breathed it. I've never you couldn't change him.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
And I'm glad that we couldn't because he died still
loving country music. And you know, if you watch the
one hundredth anniversary of the Opry, you would see that,
like Luke Combs, he comes out of Thing's Grand Tour.
So I love that because that draws more of younger kids, like, well,
(17:26):
if Luke Combs likes George Jones, maybe we should. And
also with Garth coming out on the one hundredth anniversary
when he said that the greatest country singer ever, it
was George Jones and he had the greatest country song ever.
And you know that's another thing that I was just
so proud to hear that on the one hundredth anniversary, and.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Garth is so true. I mean he just really loved George.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah. I love that too.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And of course I know those artists were included and
still played past if you had Jelly Roll, you had
Brad Paisley, you had Travis Tritt, Uncle Cracker, I mean
these these Gretchen Wilson, I mean we were talking about Household,
Tracy Bird, Jenny Fricky, good friend of the show there too.
T Graham Brown just got inducted Nancy into that Grand
ol Lopery too. So all these artists coming out to
(18:17):
pay homage and tribute to the late great George Jones
and what he meant to country music for this particular project,
were still playing positive talk about that.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
For me, that that was just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
I mean, it's just when I called him, nobody said no,
and Tracy Bird, like I said, he was so sweet.
He says, count me in, I'm there, and every one
of them it's like, I'm in, I'm in, And you know,
I figured.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
On, well, I got a call five more times, ten
more time began. I did not have to do that.
Not one time I made the call.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
They were there and it was like a three day
thing because you had do sound check and then you
had to come out and do sound.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Check at the place.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And it was just unbelievable the time that they spent
of their own time to come there and do that show.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I'm sure his his lifetime. He had to tell you
some some great stories on the road. I'm sure there
had to be some great road stories. If there's one
that you could share with us, that is, I guess
a clean version of one subject you share here too.
But is there one road story that just really could
you couldn't stop laughing when he told you that. Can
you share that with us?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I can tell you one of the embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
He was sick and show up for this show, so
I said, so we rescheduled it. And I said, now,
don't go out there and say you were drunk and
you didn't show up. Oh, I ain't gonna do that,
I said, I mean it, George, don't don't just say
that you were sick.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
He goes out there and the first thing.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Out of his mouth, my wife wants me to tell
y'all that I was sick, but I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I was just drunk and I didn't show up.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I tried to find me a place to hide.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
He threw me under the bus.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I guess that was real yeah, real hard under the
bus right there too, trying to find a place to
hide Doe down.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Well, I tell you what.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
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It is the song that was one of his biggest
ones out there. Whiskey Riff actually previewed this one here
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Speaker 4 (20:47):
Back in the flash. Here it is the Grand Tour
from the late great George Jones, cranking out stip right,
come on in.
Speaker 14 (20:57):
If you die by the Grand to b the lonely House.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Walts was home, sweet home.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
I have nothing here to sell, just some things that
I will tell you, somethings I know will chill you
to the ball.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Oh there sits the chair.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Where she breed the prie.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Purdue me and sit down, no money.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Whispering, Oh I love, but now she's done forever?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Are this all as well? Now be the same.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
We love the lone that we wants me.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Straighter.
Speaker 8 (22:18):
Ha, that's the thing.
Speaker 14 (22:22):
Where we lie lone together.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Nor no we have.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Being doll in.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
You see her pitch.
Speaker 14 (22:41):
All the table, gall in the blood share be a bar.
Speaker 15 (22:49):
Just to let me.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
So good no more. Here are serving over things.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
And your ball dobrim. The poll said not you up
them with she tall my wall the ball.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
As you you'll see the nursery.
Speaker 14 (23:26):
Oh seen up me without bussy, nothing, my baby, my fall.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
Skip right.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
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Speaker 5 (24:24):
Hey everybody, this.
Speaker 16 (24:24):
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Speaker 4 (24:37):
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one your Bay Area Broadcasting Network. You know you mentioned
this one, Nancy and that cattalog of just great songs,
(25:01):
and boy, he delivered another great vocal performance on this again,
this remastered re released on this particular project for the
Lost Nashville Sessions.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
He did a number on the Grand Tour, didn't he?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Oh, isn't that a great song?
Speaker 1 (25:15):
And you know at the grave site for he's buried,
we got sixty eight plots. I told him, I said, George,
we don't need sixty eight plots.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
He said, now, honey, I'm not gonna be crowded out
here like you gotta be dead. You're not gonna know that.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
So they put a fence around it, the whole sixty
eight plots out there, and then they put a gate up.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
So I went out there one day and I'm like,
you can't do that. They said, why not?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I said, I will never ever put a gate up
and block George's fans. So I had him to make
me up a sign and it says step right up,
come on then.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
So that's that's at his grave site, at the gate.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Oh man, what a tribute that is. To as well.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Hey, you know what's so important is even when artists now,
even these days now, are putting out records, EPs, singles,
it all comes down to you mentioned how they used
that original voice he had so pure for country music too,
and didn't change anything on that. But talk about the producers, Nancy,
that really made this project. I want to give them
props that really made this come to life too well.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Paul Martin that is one of the Oakridge boys, Dwayne
that's that's his son in law, and as you know,
because I think you know him, and he was just
absolutely wonderful. And Rex Allen Jr. That were just great
putting this together.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
And producing this and keeping it the way that they
knew that I wanted it to be kept. And I
couldn't ask for anything any better than the way they
did it.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
They did it justice, no doubt about it. I love
that too.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
At the same time, you know, we talked about how
great he was, you know, on stage and just a
great performer, and he loved what he did, eat live
and breathe there too. At the same time, but I
know that that travel had to be wear and tear
on him. As you get later into the career and
things like that. But you know, even then, he was
always about putting out one song, as most artists are.
They never resting their laurels, and then they're writing something else,
(27:15):
working toward the next project and the next release and
things like that. Talk about his work ethic because you know,
even to have a Hall of Fame career like he's had,
he had to wake up in the mornings, have a
routine things like that. You know, when he's going to
go do you know, writers rounds or write his own material,
which he was good at doing. He was great at doing,
no doubt about it. But looking back, work ethic and
how important that is in the industry. He knew it best,
(27:37):
didn't he.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Nancy George was he was a very shy person, very shy,
so he when he would do songs or whatever, he
would do like him and Jamie Johnson. They started writing
together before George died, but they never finished anything.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But he's the type.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
That I used to tell him, why don't you write
songs like you used to? He said, Honey, I'm not
hungry no more. You write a good song when you're hungry.
And I thought that love that makes sense. You know,
you know, you got to you got to put something
out there to get some money.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And he was just he was He was just a true,
honest man.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I got to ask you about the Grand Old Opry again.
We talk about to so many artists here on the
program who have stepped inside that center circle, Nancy, and
they say it's the most kind of just that moment
of like the holy ghost on them too, in that
center circle. You know, Kate and I've got a chance
to kind of go backstage and broadcast during Sunday Morning
Country they do every year during CMA Week, which is
(28:42):
another fantastic event there too, but looking at it, watching
it from the audience and then stepping inside the circle
as a musician or two or three different things right.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
There in combination.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
But that had to be amazing for him every time
he went back to play the Grand Ole Opry. What
a special tribute for him and for you to watch
it there too at the same time.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Oh, absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
I was really surprised whenever they came out and did
their presentation of George Jones and to do that on
the opera. You know, so many people are watching that,
and I feel like that Drew, George to younger kids,
because if Luke Combs can sing George Jones, if Garth
(29:23):
Groops can talk about George Jones, you don't think they're
gonna not go on and google that.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
They will definitely do that too.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
So Brandon asked you if there was something that went
super well, well, you guys are on the road. What
is something that went terribly wrong and you wish you
could redo it all over again?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Well, that would be when George would get so mad
at the sound check. Oh, my son was mad if
the sound was bad. I think everybody was as soon
as the show was over, trying to find a place
to hide because he just squilled or if it did this.
That was one thing that I used to just drey it.
Oh please, Jim Owens, don't let that squoil tonight. And
(30:08):
you know that's that's one thing he would rather than that.
He was fine, I mean, he had fun on the stage.
But if that sound was messed up, oh, it just
throw him completely off.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
He was a perfection, has no doubt about it, dude.
I'll tell you that even in concerts, man, it just
sounded just like a track. Listened to it there on
streaming or of course some of the old vinyl records
and the old people like.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
What's cassette tapes? I had to set tapes.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Back then too, So that shows my age there too,
when I grew up listening to the legendre already got
to have a little fun with you too, because I've yet,
I've passed by it there at the Country Music Hall
of Fame, and I want to see his wing in there.
And the next time we get back to the summer
for week myself, man, Kayden, I'm making it time during
what downtime we had to purchase my ticket go inside
(30:54):
there and see his wing at the Country Music Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Obviously, with all that kind of.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Went as planned, you know, to put certain items and
artifacts and things that were personal items from him. Was
it kind of hard to choose Nancy and talk about
just the wing in the Country Music Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
What can fans expect to see?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Well, I would like to have a bigger place there,
a bigger one to put a lot more stuff in there,
because you know, you can go on and on and
on with George Jones, and you just you want to
see more. That's how I feel, and I want a
bigger spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame, and
I have been working with them on that. And then
(31:34):
you know that I've got another thing that's happening is
that I had this. They did the Country Music Hall
of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry. They've made this
statue of George that we will unveil in April. And
I'll let you know more about this, so y'all can
come in and be at that little party.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Oh man, I'll tell you what a good time we
have to come in and be at that too.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Let all of y'all know to come in.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I just want to come in and see that wing,
no doubt too. And like I said, all those great
artifacts jackets, and like I said, even shoes or pants
or a shirt or something. Like I said, those old
pearl snapshirts. I know he loved those two at the
same time, didn't.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
He, And theso.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Lots of those do it.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Of course, Hey, those those guitars, man, like I said,
he loved playing guitar and stepping in front of a microphone.
Speaker 13 (32:30):
There.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
I just again my favorite artist of all time when
it came back to that seventies, eighties, nineties country. He
just did so much on that too, all right, we're
gonna have a little fun nancy and clothing. We like
to do a little thing called rapid fire. We asked
a series of funny questions, and you know, our thing
is we never know what response we're gonna get. It's
fair game out there too, So we just rolled it
out there too, and see what comes. Food wise in Nashville.
(32:52):
No shortage of it. When it comes to restaurants on
every corner out there. It seems like I find something
new every time I go. Talk about some favorite play
is that you like to eat there in Nashville, and
maybe some of the places that he being George Jones,
he liked to eat.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
George was a potato meatman, and that was it corn bread.
So in Franklin at that time it was Cracker Barrel.
He would go to Cracker Barrel every morning for breakfast
and then for dinner or whatever. It was like carabas
(33:27):
or whatever. But he liked the meat and three that
was his favorite of anything. It was like he said, well,
I like the pento beans, I like the purple whole peas,
mashed potatoes, gravy, corn bread, fried okra, chocolate pies.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
That was George, all right, What was yours and his
two parts of here favorite hobbies when he wasn't doing music.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
What did he enjoys a hobby? And yourself too, staying.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Home And what we did was he had his golf
cart and we would ride all over the hundred and
something acres that we hit and he just loved porton. Okay,
tell tell him to come cut this tree down, tell
him to do this.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I mean he and his place was like a golf course.
He would buy the.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Kids four wheelers and stuff, but they wasn't allowed to
run on the grass. I never did figure that one out.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
He rode that golf cart.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
He loved that, and like you said, important things out
for things to get done, no doubt about it too,
making sure list got that. Did you have a one
of those honey to do lists for him to get done?
Basically for his chores?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Are you kidting? George didn't do no honey to do list.
His was like, honey, well we have.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
For summer or not. He wasn't a cook, right.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
No, no, no.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I love the meat potato story. That's awesome. He didn't
know vegetables.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Vegetables did existed his Uh, okay, well meet meat potatoes
unless you got well purple hole peas can. Yeah it's
not meat potatoes, but I still love purple hole piece
oh too. I growed up in the country. Hey, we
know a little song around here in Southeast Texas. There
was a school here called the Vider Pirates. And you
may remember this story too, And this song was back
(35:15):
in the This had to be fifties or sixties. And
I can't remember. My mom would actually know the year
here too. Maybe it may have been nineteen fifty six.
I remember if this was right, But they I want
to say it was the last run they had as
a high school football team to the state championship. I'm
not sure if you know this story, but they used
that song or a version of that song, the Race
(35:35):
is On in their quest for a state championship run.
And I remember my mother's story, but I wanted to
ask you that was just such an up tempo song
and made people feel something that really could put them
inside of a song, because not just how fast Nancy,
life is.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Out there for all of us on just this clock.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
We continue to ride, no doubt, but that song really
puts you in a moment to describe that life is
this way. The race is on no doubt about it
from the title and all the lyrics really really meant
something to fans, right.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Make you jump around moment. I love that song too.
I don't think I can think of.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
That.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I did not like.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
He did that one there, And I'll tell you got
to remember love Bug. A comment on that one for
me too, because love Bug had to be one of
your favorites too, write.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Oh my god, this that hey, yeah, it's on here too,
love Bug.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Yeah, I love that one too.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
At the same time, and then I love that because
there was just another one that really made me feel good.
A picture of me and in parentheses without you. That's
also on there too, Right.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
That's a good one. You though It's wrong with Me
is a good one too.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
There's another good one, and you know, I want to
get you your take on it's also on the record.
There to a lot of again those greatest hits that
come back, but tender years make people feel something in
a way that they look at life and a different perspective. Right,
what about tender years?
Speaker 11 (37:02):
Tender years, Like I said, all of these were before
my time, but I know them because then they were
brought back, you know, But tender years I love this
song too, but I think I picked a lot more
of that I like better than Tender Years.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
And then you know, I got to mention the nineteen
eighty classic. This was on that sixteen Biggest Hits record
that he had, and everybody, we'll sing this one today
for tribute shows or anything out there. He stopped loving
her today. Amazing right on here, though not on that one.
But I had to bring it up to because every
time you heard that one sung at the same time,
(37:39):
you had to kind of put yourself in a position.
We've all gone through life experiences where we can understand
the lyrics and feel the true meaning of that song.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Right, that was a wonderful song. I mean that song
still brings tears to my eyes today. It sung at a.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
Lot, a lot of funerals, and if I'm at one,
I'm crying my eyes out.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I would probably cry my eyes out if I didn't
even know who was in that.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
And then I'll take you back to see this this
Joe's my age too, a little bit in nineteen seventy
six Golden Ring, There's not a day goes by. I'm
sure that one doesn't get played as well too, right,
I love that song too.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And you know, me and Tanny were really good friends,
a lot better friends than George and Tammy.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
I love that one too. And then we talked a
little bit about some of those but you know, looking
back at some of some of the greats out there.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
I don't need your rock and chair.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
So that has to be one that stand the test
of time for it for classic country, right.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Oh yeah, And then Billy Yates wrote that, you know,
and we're still great friends today, but that one was
a wonderful song. I mean, and George when he would
sing that, I swear I thought he was going to
dance off the stage.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Is he good at dancing? No? No?
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And without four feet?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
So you were better, right, I was better than he was.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Yes, I he loved that song too.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Jerror, all right, I gotta ask you this, because hey,
he loved the next thing when it came down to it,
as much as the next person when it come to
their favorite beverage. For him, his favorite alcoholic beverage, whether
it be whiskey, jin bourbon, whatever it was.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Oh it was whiskey?
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Was whiskey?
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Did he have a particular kind Jack Daniels, Okay, So
he loves some JD.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
I hated it.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
I knew she was going to say that save that
well that comes to the drinking, gets a little bit
of that feisty attitude.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Right, Yeah, yeah, he got a little too spicy, too
feisty with it. But do you know what, We whipped
those the ones and we got him out of there
and they were gone. And he didn't touch a drink
after he hit that bridge in uh Franklin. And after
that he didn't drink, he didn't smoke. And that's why
I can sit here and tell you that I know
(39:56):
George Jones is in Heaven.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Oh no doubt about that.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Any contributions you make through your lifetime there too. At
the same time, and you know what, hey, being a
country music musician, you're allowed to have a little bit
of fun too. At the same time. It's called entertainment.
You're entertaining a crowd, and you're allowed to have a
few drinks here and there too, and always tell people
a drink responsibly out there too, and listen to all
this great music out there again, the Lost Nationale sessions.
You can get it across all the digital streaming platforms
(40:21):
out there too.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
It's but out since November.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
The vinyl comedy is available and it forced the CDs
at Walmart and Amazon two at the same time. Nancy
appreciate the time and coming on and sharing some of
the stories of the late great George Jones. You knew
him the best when it came down to it, and
always fun to laugh and cut up a little bit
and tell some stories about, in my mind, in my opinion,
(40:44):
the greatest country music singer of all time. We appreciate
the time here on KKTZ Country ninety nine point nine
and KYBN ninety eight point one, and we look forward
to just sharing this music and these projects. Congratulations on
the Emmy, and hope you enjoyed the experience. We loved
having you, We really did.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Thank you both. I had a great time.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Thank you, you got it. Nancy Jones here on the
backstage pass. We're back with more great music again again,
powered by the Sports Guys podcast dot com and out
there KYBN ninety eight point one, your Bay Area broadcasting
network and our friends at KKTC True Country ninety nine
point nine back with more great shows coming up next week.
It is the week of the twenty fourth. I cannot
believe where March has gone, but more great shows coming
(41:24):
up over the next few weeks, featuring some of the
biggest and brightest artists in country music out there too.
We'll see you on the flip side. Take care, God
bless Hey.
Speaker 17 (41:32):
This is Nashville recording artist Anita Cochran and you're listening
to the Backstage Pass podcast powered by the Sports Guys
Podcasts Exclusively. I'm KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine
in Taos, New Mexico.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Hey y'all, this is Nashville recording artists Bradley Gilbert and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Past KYBN ninety
eight point one.
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