Vern Gosdin Preparing Career Retrospective–40 Years of the Voice

Another song required that Steve count it off. Steve was setting the tempo right from the first beat for a big chord from all. Steve went ‘One, Two, Three, Four’ and started playing. I had to stop them and say ‘We need the last number to be silent, so it starts clean Steve, got it?’

Steve said, ‘OK. Here we go.. One, Two, Four’ and started playing except everyone was laughing. We started and counted right the next time.”

It’s too bad Simpson can’t deliver a concert worthy of her new record. Frankly, it’s hard to take her seriously when she declares how much she loves “Destiny” Springfield, and then performs a version of “Son of a Preacher Man” so devoid of soul, Dusty would disown it.

(via Country California, who dubbed it recommended reading)

“I’ll never forget it,” says Wayne of the night of the shooting. “I didn’t want to load the gun, but (my stepfather) was very mean. He had shot up my brother’s home the night before and took me with him. He tried to shoot me, too. We were sitting in the car and he held this gun to my head and pulled the trigger. When he did, I moved his hand and he shot a hole inside the car. That was the lifestyle we lived as long as I can remember.”

“Every single one of us went into massive debt,” Nielson said. “But it was the weirdest feeling; we didn’t worry about it. We ate our ramen noodles and we made the record of our lives. I don’t know how many times you get that chance to just put it all on the table. That’s what we did with this album. There was never any doubt in any of our minds this was going to happen.”