Good Music Never Gets Old

Back in 2011, Rhonda Vincent and I made a duet album together and we’ve been enjoying singing those songs ever since.  One song that we made a video for was “Gone For Good.” The song was written by a fantastic songwriter and singer, Jimmy Melton. (check it out on below!)  If you go see 45rpm perform in Nashville, you’ll see Jimmy as the lead singer (and that’s a show you should get too if you love real country music.) 

       I just happened to see the photos below from that video shoot and it reminded me of the evening we shot that. Today, I don’t believe we could have done that.  Nashville has grown so much that the downtown area doesn’t look like what you see in the video and there’s no way we could have walked the streets as we did – it’s doubtful they’d let us shoot a video on the bridge.  Today it would be wall-to-wall with folks on the sidewalks downtown.  We didn’t have anyone asking people to stand back, that is just how deserted the sidewalks were on a weeknight back then.  Even the Ernest Tubb record shop has closed but I hope the sign will remain forever. 

      I know I’ve said this before but when the Wilburn Brothers took me to Ernest Tubb’s record shop after my first time on the Opry, and there I was standing next to THE Ernest Tubb, well I was speechless. At that time there was no one bigger in the business and I couldn’t believe he was talking to me.  That was a dream come true for me.  He became a friend and we even recorded together later on.