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2.Hillbilly says get up in here with he & cousin Spike right here in Mud Lick, Kentucky, says it's almost the end of summer & says Spike's looking fit as a fiddle. He says Percy Mandoberg will be on later as well as Al Bunetta, says Al's from Ol' Boy Records & manages John Prime & will be in the studio to talk about that & other stuff. He says this week's "Backstage Pass" will be about Bobo Brazil.
3.Plays Hank Thompson's "A 6 Pack To Go", Georgia Satellites' "Almost Saturday Night", Bobby Bare's Outlaw Country promo & Joe Ely's "Honky Tonkin'".
4.Hillbilly says it's sizzling in Mudlick & he's having a wonderful weekend, then plugs his email hillbillyjim@sirius-radio.com & says he, Spike & producer Steve Popavich Jr. all read the emails & take them at heart. He then plugs his toll free request line 877-33-SIRIUS & press #63, then talks about this guy [Junior Brown] being from Austin, Texas. He says this guy's an underground type of guy & has taken 2 or 3 songs & made a medley out of them.
5.Plays Junior Brown's "Surf Medley" Dwight Yoakam's "Claudette" & Rolling Stones' "Far Away Eyes".
6.Hillbilly says Rolling Stones are still touring: http://tinyurl.com/mt36b & says if you haven't seen them, you should do so because they have 40 years of music in them. He says he got a funny email the other day from someone who tells him that he's been walking around with his ipod, says that's 1 of the newest things that everyone does by downloading all the tunes that they want & says some people carry 8 to 10,000 songs in there. He contines to say that in the email, the fan tells him that he loaded "Don't Go Messin' With A Country Boy" & plays it all the time & it really gets him fired up, especially when he's walking in the park or working out at the gym.
Hillbilly says that's what he wants people to remember about himself years after he's gone, that he brought a good time to the old plate & tells Spike that he can tell that he's had a good time by the way Spike's eating & feels he's had too much of a good time. He tells Spike that his pappy Percy's been cooking some fine catfish & peachcobbler, again says he'll have Percy on the show to talk about the hunting & fishing world. He says he'll now play a favorite song by this guy [Johnny Cash] & says if he had to pick 1, it'd be very impossible to do & says this song ["Hey Porter"] is 1 of his greatest.
7.Plays Johnny Cash's "Hey Porter", Blackfoot's "Train, Train", John Anderson's "I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal [But I'm Gonna Be A Diamond Someday]" & The Maddox Brothers' "Ugly & Slouchy".
8.Hillbilly says the summer's ending & it won't be long till it gets frosty & soon it'll turn to Fall. He talks about 1 of his favorite TV shows being NBC's "My Name Is Earl": http://tinyurl.com/ryppp , says it's about a guy that's done lots of bad things in his life & decides he'll do them right because he got introduced to karma, which means that whatever you did comes back to you. He says "Earl" decided to right out his wrongs by making up a huge list, says it's very hilarious & says on next week's show, he'll be doing things on the show that's in regards to the "My Name Is Earl" show. He says Sirius has all 13 episodes from the season that's unreleased & they'll be giving them away on a DVD.
Hillbilly says it'll be special & he'll tell you how to be a part of it, says there's many things that's happening this week & says he'll play a song by a legendary guy [Fats Domino] from the south. He says he's tickled to death that we didn't lose him last year due to rumors of him being missing from the Hurricane Katrina incident. He says thank the Lord that he's here & says this is 1 of his biggest songs of all time.
9.Plays Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill", The Youngbloods' "The Wine Song" & George Jones' "Tall, Tall Trees".
10.Hillbilly says he's happy that George's changed his life around several years ago due to a bad accident in Tennessee. He says George had a real close call with the old "Mortality King", says he came back, stopped smoking, changed his life & started excersing. He says every time he sees "The Posom", he looks good & appreciates it & says there's nothing like a guy taking care of himself & says he wants George around because a guy like that is nothing but country music history up & down. He says when he thinks of guys doing great things, he thinks about Jerry Lewis: www.jerrylewiscomedy.com .
Hillbilly says Jerry does his telethon: www.mdausa.org/telethon every Labor Day, says this year he raised $61 million for muscular dystrophy & says it's something to think about a guy like that because Jerry's been around since the 50's. He says Jerry & the late Dean Martin were 1 of the best comedy duos of all time, says Jerry's still out there doing, mentions Jerry having health problems & says it's good to see that guys like that are still out there. He says we have to give guys like that more credit, says he'll do that on his show by recognizing those guys by giving them the credit that they're do. He says this tune by this lady [Lucinda Williams] that he loves so much, says he adores this song ["Changed The Locks"] & says it's 1 of those songs that kinda grows on you.
11.Plays Lucinda Williams' "Changed The Locks", Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Down South Jukin'", Marty Stuart's Hillbilly Jim promo & Marty Stuart's "Badlands".
12.Hillbilly says "Badlands" is 1 of the coolest concept albums that you'd ever hear & says Marty did that which's about Lakota Sioux of the Pine Ridge Reservation. He says Marty's a spiritual kind of cat who's great & says he's gotta try to get him on the show. He says he'll be talking about the late Steve Goodman & songs like "You Never Even Call Me By My Name", "The City Of New Orleans" & says Steve's got a new CD called "Live At The Earl Of Old Town": http://tinyurl.com/g4lr3 that's on Red Pajama Records. He again says Al Bunetta will be on the show, says Al's in charge of Old Boy Records & was influencial in Steve's career & says he'll talk about Steve & some cool stories.
Hillbilly says all this [the CD] was recorded on 8/14/1978, says they found it in the dusty corners of the old Chicago Recording Company & says they found this, put it all together & says this'll be good.
13.Plays Steve Earle's "Hillbilly Highway", Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson's "Nowhere Road", Jim Lauderdale's "Hole In My Head" & Faron Young's "Unmitigated Gall".
14.Hillbilly says Young was a big star from the 50's to the 70's, says he can still hear him singing & says Young left us so soon. He then tells Spike to get on the roof & put up the equipment that he got from Radio Shack, because his pappy Percy Mandoberg will be calling in.
15.Plays Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman", Delbert McClinton's "Birmingham Tonight", Victoria's Hillbilly Jim promo, Loretta Lynn's "Van Lear Rose" & New Riders Of The Purple Sage's "I Don't Need No Doctor".
16.Hillbilly says every once in a while you may need a doctor, yells at Spike if he's up on the roof & then introduces Uncle Percy Mandoberg [via phone]. He asks Percy as to how's he doing, Percy says it's great & says he's got "The Commander" sitting with him on the front porch rocking. He says "The Commander"'s back from a hunting trip in Illnois & says both were sitting & waiting for Hillbilly to call, Hillbilly says he may have to speak to the old "Commander" & may want to say hi to him because he's never been on his show. Percy says he don't think he's been on satellite radio before, but he's happy [to be on], Hillbilly says it's the end of summer & says the fans wanna know what's been happening in the hunting & fishing world.
Percy says he's got a red fishing report from [couldn't hear the name of the city] in Louisiana, says his cousin Mike returned with a bunch of red fish that're biting. He says the live shrimp are really good, says people there have caught 2 or 3 big [what sounded like]"couvers" in just a couple of days & says it's good fishing this time of the year. Hillbilly says did the people there had a little bit of a recovery time from the recent hurricane, Percy says the hurricanes blew away everything that was above water down there, says there ain't much down there & feels they may've stayed in a couple of trailers & says it didn't hurt the fish at all. Hillbilly asks him if there's any kind of other season that's coming.
Percy says yes & they just got out of the 1st few days of dove season & now's the time to look for deer with bow & arrow. Hillbilly asks if that's interesting, Percy says yes & says the equipment's come along way because they have some high tech rednecks in his part of the world these days. Hillbilly asks if anyone wanted to know about bow hunting how would they go about it, says it's because he knows about the new bows that're out & says he don't understand it at all since it don't look like the ones that he played with when he was a kid. Percy says there's still some traditional archer's out there, but tells those that're interested he says almost anywhere in the midwest there's local bow shops.
Percy suggests that you talk to folks, try out different things & see what you like & says in his area there's a place called "The Hunter's Den" in Logan County, Kentucky that he goes to fix up his bow & says it's worked all the way from Kentucky to Africa. Hillbilly says that seems to be more of a real hunting excerise for a guy to show up his bow hunting skills, Percy says yes & it takes lots of practice & Hillbilly asks as to when bow season starts. Percy says in Kentucky it started 9/2 thru mid January, Hillbilly says he knows lots of people down there will get involved in that & asks him if he's got any trips planned & where's his next hunting gonna be.
Percy says it's 10/30 to see their buddy [what sounded like] Ed Haynes in Dallas, South Dakota & says he remember that they played songs last fall for the young ladies that work in a bar & says until that time, he'll stay in Kentucky. Hillbilly asks if he's heard of any hot spots going on with hunting, Percy says even though he won't be on the trip this year but his buddies in Montana tell him that this is the best year for [what sounded like] "fesins" in 40 years. He says "fesins" are running everywhere, says folks in Texas tell him that the quail population looks pretty good in the southwest part of Texas & says he's hearing that duck population in the Dakota's are huge this year.
Hillbilly says he'll play a tune now & will come back afterwords & also he'll talk to Percy's friend "The Commander" & Percy says yes.
17.Plays Del Reeves' "Girl On The Billboard", Bill Kirchen's "Tombstone Every Mile", a voicemail from Adam Banjo from Banjo & Sullivan plugging their new hit single "I'm At Home Getting Hammered [While She's At Out Getting Nailed]" & says it's on KPSY [in Burley, Idaho on 88.5FM], Banjo & Sullivan's "I'm At Home Getting Hammered [While She's Out Getting Nailed]" & Jimmy Buffet's "Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes".
18.Hillbilly tells Percy that his son Spike's on top of the roof making lots of racket & yells at Spike to quiet it down because he's doing his show. He tells Percy that Spike's holding up the fancy equipment that he got from Radio Shack so they can get good reception & says Spike's a 1 tracker. Percy says Spike's always been a conner & says he's not sure if a squirrel didn't come visit his Ma instead of him & Hillbilly agrees. He then asks Percy that since it's the end of the year & the Mandoberg's are real big for having some fixing's & goings on & asks if he wants to tell the listeners something. Percy says 9/23 is the 6th annual Squirrel Fest party that's have music & Pat Haney will be there.
Percy says they'll have lots of pickers, food & wanted to invite producer Steve Popavich Jr., says he knows Spike's coming but maybe forgot to ask Steve. Hillbilly says Steve would love to come, Percy says to tell Steve to bring his pretty wife with him & Hillbilly says she's pretty as a speckled pup & she's always nipping at his heels like a poodle. Percy says since this'll be her 1st visit there, he won't make her put an apple on her head so they can shoot it off. Hillbilly asks if he can say hi to "The Commander", Percy says yes & he needs to congradulate him because he's done the best dove shooting this year that he's ever seen & then puts "The Commander" on the phone & says hi to Hillbilly.
Hillbilly asks him if he's done some great dove hunting, says Percy tells him that he's getting better every year, asks as to what's his secret & says his name is "Joel". "Joel The Commander" says the secret's that it's shooting with Percy daily, Hillbilly says Percy's the best & says he knows both of them have done lots of good hunting & lots of tours & asks "Joel The Commander" if there's anyplace that he'd like to go that's better for hunting. "Joel The Commander" says dove hunting's his favorite with [yep, what sounded like] "fastbirds", "waterbirds" & says he's done really well. Hillbilly says later on the show, he'll do a special on Steve Goodman & his new CD.
Hillbilly says he knows that "Joel The Commander" remembers songs like "The City Of New Orleans" & others that's legendary. He says they [the record company] found Steve's new album & again says Bunetta will be in the studio later & wants to make sure that "Joel The Commander" will be listening in. "Joel The Commander" says he will listen, Hillbilly says he appreciates him coming on & says anytime that Percy has to call in to talk about the hunting & fishing world, that he's welcomed to get in on it. "Joel The Commander" says he appreciates the invitation, says he's just sitting on the porch with Percy & just taking it easy out there.
Hillbilly asks "Joel The Commander" to put Percy back on the phone, says good to him & he'll talk to him soon & suggest to come over to his house & have some fancy meals that he does. "Joel The Commander" asks if it's Porter House steaks that he likes, Hillbilly says he just called his #. Percy comes back on the phone & asks if he heard a dinner invitation, Hillbilly says it's for him & "Joel The Commander" but may be able to squeeze him in there also. He thanks Percy for helping him make his show wonderful, his hunting & fishing news & says he'll play a tune for him & "Joel The Commander". He says it's from The Allman Brothers Band & tells him that he'll hear from him next week.
19.Plays The Allman Brothers Band's "Statesboro Blues", Charlie Robison's "Good Times", Dwight Yoakam's Hillbilly Jim promo[which was played during the ending of "Good Times"], Dwight Yoakam's "Little Ways" & Tammy Wynette's "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad".
20.Hillbilly again plugs his email & toll free request line, says he's thinking about the days of Elvis Presley & the song "Polk Salad Annie" that he did in Madison Square Garden & says his version was fabulous.[NOTE FROM JEFF:here's the matinee show: http://tinyurl.com/g7eoa & evening show: http://tinyurl.com/ohtr6 both from 6/10/1972]. He says the song was original done by Tony Joe White, says he's got a new CD called "Uncovered": http://tinyurl.com/z4qwn that has great players like Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler & JJ Cale. He says he'll play you a tune ["Rebellion"] that you'll like & it's brand new on the show.
21.Plays Tony Joe White's "Rebellion", Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Air's "Seeds & Stems [Again]", Billy Joe Shaver & Kevin Fowler's "Slim Chance & The Can't Hardly Playboys" & The Highwaymen's "Live Forever".
22.Hillbilly says "Live Forever" is a Shaver tune that was produced by Don Was in '95 & says they took it & made it a super outlaw country tune. He says he likes pulling these tunes out, twist them together & says it's amazing on how the whole outlaw country world all ties in together. He says he got an email from Kevin Lebritz who tells him that he's an Oakland Raiders fan, says everyone gots to love the black & silver including himself. He says he's always liked the black & silver & even back in the day when John Madden, John Matusak & others years ago. He then mentions Jack Tatum & others were something else & even during the Kenny Stabler days.
Hillbilly says Kevin's email tells him that he goes to the games, says Raider fans are known to be crazy, wacked out & have fun & says Kevin dresses up like a "Hillbilly Jim lookalike Raider". He says Kevin & his friends have taken some WWE characters & tells him that Hillbilly's his favorite & Hillbilly says he appreciates & knows that they're keeping the Hillbilly Jim moniker alive. He says he'll play a special song from a guy that he likes [Johnny Rivers], says this guy's been around since the 60's.
23.Plays Johnny Rivers' "Memphis, Tennessee", The Byrds' "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man", Todd Snider's Hillbilly Jim promo & Todd Snider's "Lookin' For A Job".
24.Hillbilly says the economy's good now with people having job's & gas prices are now down. He again says Al Bunetta will be in the studio later & says after the break, he'll talk about Bobo Brazil on his "Backstage Pass" segment.
25.Plays Bob Dylan's "Forever Young", The Mavericks' "O What A Thrill" & Merle Haggard's "Today I Started Loving You Again".
26.Hillbilly says "Today I Started Loving You Again" has been recorded over 700 times by other artists, says before he does his "Backstage Pass" he'll do his "This Week In Wrestling History". He says in '99 "Mr. McMahon" beat HHH for the WWE [then WWF] title, then says again in '99 Rene DuPree & Kenzo Suzuki beat Billy Kidman & Paul London for the WWE [then WWF] tag titles & says in 2002, Chris Jericho beat RVD for the Intercontinental title & says that's "This Week In Wrestling History". He says it's now time for his "Backstage Pass" segment & it's about Houston Harris who's the real name of Bobo Brazil: http://tinyurl.com/q6wy6 .
Hillbilly says Bobo was really something else who's a legendary guy that broke new ground, says he was born in '24 in Little Rock, Arkansas & was probably the most popular African American wrestler of all time. He says Bobo broke many racial barriers that were out there in the business, says he was referred to as "The Jackie Robinson Of Professional Wrestling" & says for good reason because he was someone that everyone loved to see. He says he drew record crowds whether it be in Chicago, St.Louis, Kansas City or anywhere & says Bobo was really big. He says Bobo's headbutt was known as the "Coco Butt" because he had the hardest head in the business.
Hillbilly says Bobo used the "Coco Butt" to a great degrill, then corrects himself & says degree of greatness. He says Bobo wound up living in Benton Harbor, Michigan where he had a restaurant called "Bobo's Brazil" [NOTE FROM JEFF:I think it was called "Bobo's Grill"] which became a landmark. He says back in his day, Bobo was famous for feuds with Johnny Valentine, Haystacks Calhoun, Dick The Bruiser, Killer Kowalski & says he was something else. He says Bobo had a charisma & personality that went down thru the business, says the late Junk Yard Dog & others had lots of charisma also but Bobo set the trend on the way that the business was gonna be with his tremendous athletic ability.
Hillbilly says everyone enjoyed Bobo, says he was the 1st African American wrestler to win the US title, says he was also the 1st African American man to wrestle in Florida because at that time it wasn't allowed. He says Bobo was inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame in '94, says he died in '98 at 78 years old, says he was really something & corrects himself by saying Bobo was 73 when he died. He says his legend will live on, thanks his staff on his show for putting this all together & making it possible for him to bring you his "Backstage Pass" every week. He says he'll now play a tune that you'll love ["Waterloo"] & says he'll go back to some days of a long time ago.
Hillbilly says this song makes him think about the 60's, says he remembers hearing this when he was a little boy & says he & his family loved singing this song & played Tarzan & other sports while singing this song.
27.Plays Stonewall Jackson's "Waterloo", Kasey Chambers' "We're All Gonna Die Someday", The Flying Burrito Brothers' "Hot Burrito #1", Terry Funk's Hillbilly Jim promo & Steve Earl's "Good Ol' Boy [Getting Tough]"
28.Hillbilly plugs Cowboy Jack Clement's show: www.sirius.com/outlawcountry & says he'll have Guy Clark who'll play some songs from his new album "Workbench Songs": http://tinyurl.com/julgh . He then plugs Todd Snider's show called the "Tipsy Gypsy Hour" next Friday 8PM EST & again says Al Bunetta will be on the show.
29.Plays The Beatles' "Get Back", Emmylou Harris' "Amarillo", Hank Williams Jr.'s Outlaw Country promo & Hank Williams' "Mind Your Own Business".
30.Hillbilly introduces Al Bunetta, says every time he looks at Al he gives him some inspiration & it makes him wanna go out & run around the block a few more times & lift some more weights. Al says he's not Jack LaLanne, Hillbilly says he is & says Al's 1 of his favorite cats from Nashville. He says he didn't meet Al too long ago but says Al makes quite an impression on everyone that he runs into. He says he always enjoys hanging & talking to him, says Al's had some kind of career & tells him that they'll take about the late Steve Goodman & his new CD. He then asks Al as to how long he's been around the record industry.
Al says he started in '65 or '66 as the road manager for The Rascals, Hillbilly says Felix Cavaliere, Eddie Brigati & the others are a Hall Of Fame band & then asks Al as to when he decided to move to Nashville. Al says he's lived in California & thought 1 day, woke up & realized it was time to leave. He says the pressure [of living in California] was too much, the riots [aka the Rodney King LA riot from '92] was too much, never felt comfortable & says 1 day he got up, left his house & came to Nashville. Hillbilly asks Al if he loves Nashville, Al says yes as well as his lifestyle & the people in Nashville & says it's really a great way to live a life.
Hillbilly says Al's the head of the record label Oh Boy Records: www.ohboy.com & asks him as to how that came about, when he started it & what gave him the idea to do so. Al says it started with the late Steve Goodman who couldn't work, fell out of remission due to being diagnosed with Leukemia maybe in '69. He says he started with Steve in late '71, says Steve fell out of remission the 1st time & needed to keep him active so during those years of performing, Al would go thru the audience & confiscate the [bootleg audience recording] cassettes that fans were making & kept them in the office.
Al says he was the mean Italian & wondered as to why Steve & John [Prine] were leaving beer around him, says Al would take the tapes at Steve's house & every Friday when the office closed & make Steve a part of everything, just to keep him going. He says Steve & Dan Einstein who worked with them at the time would sit while Nancy [Steve's widow] made the best [yep, what sounded like] "Bouya Base", says all drank wine & had a good time. He says Steve fell out of remission, then went into remission, was fine & then they took the records, says his performances were always so stellar & great & says he was the performer period.
Hillbilly says Steve was a great player & a guitar picker, Al says on his latest CD that came out is when he realized how great Steve was. Hillbilly plugs www.stevegoodman.net & www.redpajamasrecords.com to get the CD, says he's surprised of how many influences Steve's had & says you can hear his blues influence. He says everything Steve did & such a player he was as well as his lyrics & says to this day, people can't write like that. Al says his brother Peter who's also a gifted producer/writer called him this morning to tell him that there'll be a book on Steve that Nancy's putting together & says she wanted everyone that was close to Steve to write a couple of pages.
Al says Peter wrote a piece on him that brought everyone to tears this morning, says the timing was so great & Peter spotted it of what Steve was as a player, singer & writer but also as a person. He says you can sit & do testimonies all day & Steve was a tough little guy with that type of personality. Hillbilly says we'll talk more about Steve & John Prime later on but he'll now play a cut from Steve's new CD & says you'll really like this 1 called "Truck Driving Man".
31.Plays Steve Goodman's "Truck Driving Man", Arlo Guthrie's Hillbilly Jim promo & Arlo Guthrie's "The City Of New Orleans".
32.Hillbilly says "The City Of New Orleans" is a Steve Goodman song which's 1 of his most famous, Al says that & "You Never Even Call Me By My Name" & says there's so many great songs. Hillbilly says you can't go to a club or any place that plays music were they don't play 1 or 2 of those songs & says Steve's songs were iconic. He asks Al if he ever got a chance to talk to Steve about his songwriting process, Al says he & Steve has talked 15 times & even if he didn't want to, Steve would call him in the middle of the night to say "I got 1". He says when John would write a song, he'd call Steve because Steve would remember the entire song by listening to it 1 time through & says Steve had that kind of memory in mind.
Al says he himself wasn't involved when Steve wrote "The City Of New Orleans", but heard that it came real quick & then a fellow writer came to Steve at The Earl Of Old Town & told Steve that even though it's a great song, he didn't talk about what happened on the train. Al says Steve finished it, says Arlo was turned onto it & the rest is history. Hillbilly says he wonders as to how many times that's been recorded by other people & Al says maybe 70 or 80 times by different artists. Hillbilly says Al's had a many year relationship with John Prine being together with Oh Boy Records & asks Al as to how that came about.
Al says he & Steve started Red Pajamas Records because Steve was too ill to get out there, says label weren't that anxious to have Steve on board & says it's all in retrospects so grey. He says he & John were talking 1 day about their relationship at the time with a major label, says John told him "you know what, I'd rather do our own thing" & he told John that he's right. So he says John named it after a Buddy Holly song says they started it off with a Christmas single, says they didn't know if they were doing right or wrong & says that was the best thing that ever happened to them.
Hillbilly says Al's been gracious to come on, says it's good that they're on the radio together, says he loves going to lunch with him because they have great conversations. He says if they can get their conversations in the studio from Al, says Al's been around alot of people & everyone knows him. He says Al's lived to what everyone's told him about Al & more & asks him if he ever got the money that he owes Hillbilly. Al says after that introduction he owes Al money, Hillbilly says OK he'll pay him, again plugs Steve's CD which's something else & again plugs www.stevegoodman.net & www.redpajamasrecords.com to pick it up & says he'll play more songs like that.
Al says he called his cousin in New Jersey who's a dear friend & a great cousin who's also a wrestling fan, says he himself kinda knew it but wasn't sure of all the things that supposedly he's known to do & says he told his cousin that he was having lunch with Hillbilly Jim. He says his cousin fell down, couldn't believe it & asks if he really knows him [Hillbilly Jim] & says yes. Hillbilly says it's always good for people to remember you in a positive way & he likes that, says earlier Al was talking about managing The Rascals, says he [Hillbilly] got to meet Felix & says he's a sweet & wonderful guy. He says it's amazing as to how everyone really does with 1 or 2 people away from knowing each other anyway.
Hillbilly says he's known of Al for a long time before meeting him, says he knew Al's connection with John Prine & Steve Goodman & says his buddy in Kentucky that Al comes up sometimes & does work on some of Al's cars. He says for those that don't know, Al's a big motorman who loves cars & says he'll play a John Prine song now. He says they'll come back & talk about his buddy that does work for Al, talk more about Steve & talk more about Al.
33.Plays John Prine's "Illegal Smile" & "If She Were You".
34.Hillbilly asks Al if he & Steve co-wrote "If She Were You", Al says & when Hillbilly asks as to what type of friends were John & Steve & Al says they were like brothers. He says he, Steve & John were inseparable, Hillbilly says it's something for him to hear about these stories later on & found out that Steve was also a tremendous Chicago Cubs baseball fan. Al says yes & he wrote "Go Cubs Go" for a dying Cubs fan's last request. He says Steve loved Chicago & says it's Stevie's Chicago, Hillbilly says the song "When the Cubs Go Marching In" is on Steve's new CD, says that Old Town was a place that lots of guys got their start there & says he knows John Prine played there.
Al says it was a place where they all had a home to go & play, says it took them all in & says the music that came out of The Earl Of Old Town was amazing. He says to go to that place & have this tape of Steve live & says it's a 24 track that's just like from Heaven because it's unbelievable. Hillbilly says his songs are amazing to listen to, says everyone's renditions of them are something else & says you can't mess with them. Al says when he heard it for the 1st time, he couldn't believe that being with Steve for so many years daily & couldn't believe on how great he was by hearing this music.
Hillbilly says he wants to talk about a couple of songs from the CD & asked about the song "Red, Red Robin" where he's doing the picking on it. Al says Steve had a musical vocabulary where he can sing it, then tells a quick road story about on the way to a gig when being Steve's agent at the time. He says he'd cover every day that he could & on weekends, says he'd fly to Minneapolis where he'd perform with Jim Croce who was a good friend & says he & Jim was at the airport & Al's going on & on on how great Steve was. He says Jim had a bad cold at the airport & by the time they got to Minneapolis, Jim couldn't perform & had to be in bed.
Al says there was 2 shows, says Steve did Jim's show by singing all of Jim's songs & did his own show 4 times. He says that was Steve who could do any songs in the world, Hillbilly says the 1st time Steve hears a song he can remember it & sing it back & Al says Steve had a photographic memory. Hillbilly says that's quite a skill to have in the music business if you can recall like that, says lots of people don't have that & they have to spend lots of time trying to learn tunes. Al says he & Steve were playing in a theater in Mobile, Alabama & Steve found out that it was the 1st & last show done by Al Jolson, so Steve closed it with the song "Mame" on his knee.
Al says John had to follow him by telling John "G'Head John, they'll gonna love you" & says they got 2 ovations. Hillbilly says besides managing Steve he also managed John since '72 & again says you can pick it up at www.stevegoodman.net & www.redpajamasrecords.com . Al says Steve's daughter Roseana who's a chip off the old block produced a wonderful record called "My Old Man" with all her friends from a different generation, doing Steve's songs which's also available on the same sites: http://tinyurl.com/lwd6v produced by her & Chris Brown. Hillbilly says he'll play another Steve song now from his new CD, says this is a real good 1 & it's 1 that you'd like alot. He says he'll still ask Al about his car hobby because he wants to know more about it.
35.Plays Steve Goodman's "The Auctioneer" & "3 Legged Man".
36.Hillbilly says "3 Legged Man" was from the new CD & asks Al as to who wrote that song & Al says it's the late Shal Silverstein. Hillbilly says he wanted to talk about Al's car hobby but don't believe he'll have time & asks him to come back on sometime so he can talk about Al's life, because it's very fasinating of the life that Al's lived by doing many things & knowing many people. Al says sure anytime, Hillbilly says that's good & says both has had the best time talking about Steve, again tells you the sites on where to get Steve's new CD & asks Al as to how he feels about John Prine & Steve & asks if it makes him feel warm inside [to know them].
Al says 1 of the great lines from a John Prine song on "Sam Stone" it's, "Gave him all the confidence he lacked", says John & Steve gave him all the confidence he himself lacked. He says he did all his work & is so privileged to have been there, says to have Steve live to help him go thru every dream that he tried to do musically, he wants to feel that he was a part of it. He says they were a part of his life & were the best people that've ever walked into his life other than his own parents & family, says that's not show business, it's straight up & says he didn't know anything when he was working with them other than that they were great & to let the world know it.
Hillbilly says he's heard lots of class things about Shal Silverstein, Al says that Steve told him to take a ride with him to San Francisco & the next thing's that they're on a houseboat with this guy. Al says they took him into a world that he didn't know about, introduced him to Shal & says he was cooler than anyone he's ever met. He says he watched & listened to them write a song on his houseboat in the San Francisco Bay, says he almost feels like a zelic because he was there. Hillbilly says Al's a part of history, says some of these things that he's talking about are something else & says it's amazing to him that he can get Al in here to talk about these stories because people need to know these stories.
Hillbilly says people need to be chronical, written & heard so in the future, others can know about these guys & can't let Steve go by without people knowing as to how sensational he was. He says Sirius' honored that Al came in to hang out with him & talk about this, says the last song is a Steve song "You Never Even Call Me By My Name" & says Al knows something about that too. Al says John always told him that soon the business will catch up to what they're doing, says sure enough there's Sirius & they're playing us & it's so great. Hillbilly says we're honored, privileged & a treat for him to have Al, says he loves him who's 1 of the greatest guys that he's met in Nashville or anywhere.
Hillbilly says Al's personality is something that you can't help from liking, says he'll make him come back on the show again if he has to put the "Hillbilly Jim Hammer" on him. He says he sees the clock on the wall & he has to go, thanks Spike, Uncle Percy Mandoberg & his producer Steve Popavich Jr. He says he ain't here for a long time, he's here for a good time & because of Al, he's had a great time. He says before they leave, he wants Al to talk about this last song & Al says Steve & John co-wrote "You Never Even Call Me By My Name" but John chose Steve to have the song.
Al says he don't know why, but Steve added the famous verse "Ever since the day my Mama got out of prison", says thank God for David Allan Coe for cutting that song, says he took credit for it just by saying that Steve's the guy who wrote it & says he was gonna jump all over him. He says all were best friends, says he remembers a Christmas party at Steve's house when David 1st heard the new verse & says he was there again. He again says thanks to David for helping the Goodman & Bunetta families & everyone around. Hillbilly thanks Al for coming on the show, says hold on for Clement's show following his, again says to get the new Steve CD & says see you next week.
37.Ends the show with David Allan Coe's "You Never Even Call Me By My Name", show ends at 2:02PM
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