♪ "Muscle Shoals to Music Row" ♪ (upbeat music) [Announcer] The Sam Phillips Music Organization invites you to step behind the music where the hits are made, the stories are told, and the legends are born.

♪ Muscle Shoals ♪ ♪ Music Row, yeah ♪ [Announcer] This program is brought to you by Visit the Shoals, Big River Broadcasting, Sutherland Sight & Sound, and the University of North Alabama's David and John Briggs Family Department of Entertainment Industry.

(upbeat music continues) And now, live from the Shoals, this is "Muscle Shoals to Music Row Live."

(gentle music) (upbeat music) ♪ I'm stumblin' round through the market square ♪ ♪ I had a dream I was goin' somewhere ♪ (upbeat music continues) ♪ There's so many fools within ♪ ♪ So little's changed but I don't care ♪ (upbeat music continues) ♪ And I don't want a brand new world ♪ ♪ I'm tryin' to figure out where this one's comin' from ♪ ♪ I'm lookin' for ♪ (dramatic rock music) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) ♪ What do you do when you get lonely ♪ ♪ Nobody's waitin' by your side ♪ ♪ You been runnin' and hidin' much too long ♪ ♪ You know it's just your foolish pride ♪ ♪ Layla ♪ ♪ You got me on my knees ♪ ♪ Layla ♪ ♪ Beggin' darlin', please ♪ ♪ Layla ♪ ♪ Darlin' won't you ease my worried mind ♪ Started this thing in 2018 with The Beatles and it's always a fun game to play to try to get 'em in order how we went, 'cause I know we went The Beatles, The Stones, and then it was either Sam Phillips, The Swampers, Tom Petty, The Eagles, the '80s, now the '70s.

Yeah, we're goin' on 10 years with this and makin' music, and playin' big shows, and gettin' amped up for it and geared up for it, and rehearsin' with everybody, and just the fellowship leadin' up to it.

The rehearsals are, there's no labor involved at it.

It's food, fun, and fellowship.

I'm like, you always did either the (vocalizing)... Yeah, I tried to mimic that.

I never did do it right, you know.

-The Stevie.

-(both vocalizing) [Mitch] Yeah.

Bro, I remember the first time I ever seen that done was, I walked, I was playing at Callahan's one night and I walked down the sidewalk.

You was playing at Rigatoni's, up on the balcony?

And that's the first time I, there's somethin' about seein' somebody do that in person.

[Mitch] Oh yeah.

And watchin' you do that rhythm guitar, and sing.

I'm like, "That's how that's done."

That blew my mind.

Scott Todd and I go way back, probably, I guess the mid-'90s?

We just complement each other.

He's everything that I'm not.

(chuckles) I always tell him I'm the cake, he's the icing.

(chuckles) And Mitch is like a guitar soulmate of mine.

He is what I've always wanted to be and cannot be.

He's the fantasy side of my guitar playing.

And it's so easy to work with him.

He does a lot of the heavy lifting, and a lotta times we don't even have to talk about who's doing what, it just magically happens.

Both go like that.

And maybe what Donny was doin' that might... -(guitar strings chiming) -Awesome.

-Awesome.

-You know.

While Russell certainly, he is sorta, again, the head of this whole thing and it all comes from his mind and his leadership, there is work that we all put into it.

But it's fun.

It's a labor of love and it's a pleasure to be a part of it every year.

And I have the utmost respect for those of you who have to learn chords for these songs.

It's enough of a tumble just to try to catch the right feel of the song on drums.

It's been a blessing for me.

I've been playing bars for so many years, wingin' it.

My guys just kinda say, "Okay, we're gonna do these songs this weekend," no rehearsal, and just go in.

And sometimes it's a great thing, and sometimes it's not a great thing.

And these guys, they work continuously until they have the song, the little nuances, everything down pat, just like the record.

I tell the guys all the time, feel like this is the greatest thing that I've ever done musically.

And I mean it.

What these shows are about and the way it's able to contribute to the community, it's just home runs on every area.

It's just awesome and great.

And I'm honored to be a part of that.

(tense rock music) When I first moved up here in the early '90s, when you'd go see Travis Wammack play, he always had a talk box.

Travis may have had one of the first few out there I think back in the day.

'Cause I mean, he started out when he was just a little kid with that instrumental "Scratchy."

So he, you know, he's been around, and say all that to say this.

I'll ask Travis, you know, "I'll get the talk box."

So, I went to Travis, and of course Travis has taught us all, get to the gig an hour early.

If you ever get to where you can double everything up from your guitars to your amps, to your chords, to your straps, to your effects pedals, always have a backup.

So yeah, he's like, "Oh, of course, you can borrow one of mine."

(laughs) So he has at least two.

And of course, you know, he gave me the one fresh outta the box.

That was the backup.

He had never used it.

He loaned it to me, and then after the show I was gonna give it back to him, and he said, "Well, why don't you just keep that?"

So, ah, we love Travis.

-(tense music) -(talk box vocalizations) -(tense music continues) -(vocalizations continue) -(tense music continues) -(vocalizations continue) ♪ Sweet ♪ ♪ Emotion ♪ ♪ Sweet ♪ ♪ Emotion ♪ ♪ Talk about things and nobody cares ♪ ♪ Wearin' out things that nobody wears ♪ ♪ You callin' my name but I gotta make clear ♪ ♪ I can't say, baby, where I'll be in a year ♪ (dramatic rock music) (dramatic music continues) ♪ Some sweathog mama with a face like a gent ♪ ♪ Say my get up and go musta got up and went ♪ ♪ Well, I got good news, she's a real good liar ♪ ♪ 'Cause the backstage boogie puts your pants on fire ♪ (dramatic rock music) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) ♪ Sweet ♪ ♪ Emotion ♪ ♪ Sweet ♪ ♪ Emotion ♪ ♪ Pulled into town in the police car ♪ ♪ Your daddy said I took it just a little too far ♪ ♪ You're tellin' out things, but your girlfriend lied ♪ ♪ You can't catch me because the rabbit done died ♪ ♪ Yes, it did ♪ (dramatic rock music) (dramatic music continues) ♪ You stand in the front just a-shakin' your ass ♪ ♪ I'll take you backstage, you can drink from my glass ♪ ♪ Talk about somethin' you can sure understand ♪ ♪ 'Cause a month on the road and I'm eatin' from your hand ♪ (dramatic rock music) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) ♪ Sweet ♪ ♪ Emotion ♪ ♪ Sweet ♪ ♪ Emotion ♪ (dramatic rock music) (dramatic music continues) (dramatic music continues) (audience applauding and cheering) ♪ Passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks ♪ ♪ But gotta stop wishin' ♪ ♪ Gotta go fishin' ♪ ♪ Down at rock bottom again ♪ ♪ Just a few friends ♪ ♪ Just a few friends ♪ I started playing professionally when I was 19 years old in Birmingham, Alabama, and Jimmy Buffett was a big part of that.

You know, Jimmy Buffett, James Taylor, if you were a solo acoustic act, that's what people wanted to hear.

You know, I kind of begrudgingly played those songs at the time, but anytime they come on the radio, I turn 'em up in the car.

Jimmy Buffett has a tie to Muscle Shoals through Mac McAnally.

And with Kelvin Holly being the godfather, I told him there's not a cooler person in town to sing that song.

(gentle music) (gentle music continues) (gentle music continues) ♪ Mother, mother ocean ♪ ♪ I have heard you call ♪ ♪ I wanted to sail upon your waters ♪ ♪ Since I was three feet tall ♪ ♪ And you've seen it all ♪ ♪ You've seen it all ♪ ♪ I watched the men who rode you ♪ ♪ Switch from sail to steam ♪ ♪ And in your belly you hold the treasures ♪ ♪ Few have ever seen ♪ ♪ And most of 'em dream ♪ ♪ Most of them dream ♪ ♪ Yes I am a pirate ♪ ♪ And 200 years too late ♪ ♪ The cannons don't thunder ♪ ♪ There's nothin' to plunder ♪ ♪ I'm an over-40 victim of fate ♪ ♪ Arriving too late ♪ ♪ Arriving too late ♪ ♪ And I've done a bit of smugglin' ♪ ♪ I've run my share of grass ♪ ♪ I've made enough money to buy Miami ♪ ♪ But I pissed it away so fast ♪ ♪ Never meant to last ♪ ♪ Oh never meant to last ♪ ♪ And I have been drunk now for over two weeks ♪ ♪ I passed out and I rallied and I sprang a few leaks ♪ ♪ But I got to stop wishin' ♪ ♪ I've got to go fishin' ♪ ♪ Down to rock bottom again ♪ ♪ Just a few friends ♪ ♪ Just a few friends ♪ Scotty Todd!

(gentle music) (gentle music continues) (gentle music continues) Yeah, buddy.

♪ And I go for younger women ♪ ♪ I lived with several awhile ♪ ♪ Though I ran 'em away ♪ ♪ They'd come back one day ♪ ♪ I still could manage to smile ♪ ♪ It just takes a while ♪ ♪ Well, it just takes a while ♪ ♪ Mother, mother ocean ♪ ♪ After all the years I've found ♪ ♪ My occupational hazard being ♪ ♪ My occupation's just not around ♪ ♪ I feel like I've drowned ♪ ♪ I feel like I've drowned ♪ ♪ I feel like I've drowned ♪ ♪ Gonna head uptown ♪ (gentle music fades) (audience applauding and cheering) So the first three years we met The Beatles, The Stones, and Sam Phillips.

Then we had a pandemic and we came back in 2021 and we met Tom Petty.

♪ Runnin' down a dream ♪ ♪ It never would come to me ♪ ♪ Workin' on a mystery ♪ ♪ I'm goin' wherever it leads ♪ ♪ Runnin' down a dream ♪ That was the first year that we went to the Shoals Theatre.

We were comin' out of COVID.

It was one of the first big shows that happened in town after COVID.

I'm a huge Tom Petty fan.

I saw Tom when he came here and played in Florence when I was 15 years old.

That's really the only Muscle Shoals contact that that show had.

Everybody's hair was on fire and it was a great show.

-♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ -♪ Yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ The waiting is the hardest part ♪ ♪ Every day deal one more card ♪ ♪ You take it on faith, you take it to the heart ♪ ♪ The waiting is the hardest part ♪ (bright music) ♪ Waiting by the side of the road ♪ ♪ For day to break so we could go ♪ ♪ Down into Los Angeles ♪ ♪ Dirty hands, worn out knees ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ I keep crawlin' back to you ♪ ♪ Ooh ooh ooh ooh ♪ ♪ I keep crawlin' back to you ♪ Then the following year after that, we did "Muscle Shoals Meets the Swampers."

♪ One of these mornings ♪ ♪ That chain is gonna break down ♪ The show was continuing to grow each year.

We were able to hire more musicians.

♪ Love me like the rock of ages ♪ ♪ Loves me like the rock ♪ ♪ Loves me like the rock ♪ After "The Swampers," we did "Muscle Shoals Meets The Eagles."

(electric guitar music) (upbeat rock music) Then we did "Muscle Shoals Meets the '80s."

♪ It's tricky to rock a rhyme ♪ ♪ To rock a rhyme that's right on time ♪ ♪ It's tricky ♪ -♪ It's tricky ♪ -♪ Tricky ♪ -♪ Trick ♪ -♪ Tricky ♪ And at that point we started building playgrounds.

My youngest son, Armstrong, is non-verbal autistic.

And after we did "Muscle Shoals Meets The Eagles," Billy Ray Casteel, who's a childhood friend of mine, had come on board to be a sponsor for The Eagles show, And when I met with him afterwards to talk to him if he would have interest in being a sponsor moving forward, he told me he would be a sponsor for the rest of our lives, but that I needed to be doing it about autism.

That he was surprised, he thought I was already doing it to raise money for autism.

And I told Billy Ray, I was like, "No man, I never wanted this to be about me."

And he said, "It's not about you, man.

It's about a bunch of people."

And he was right, so I went home and talked to my wife Allison about it, and talked to the band and all the Worms, and we all agree that that was a direction that we thought we should go.

So with the infighting that goes on between one side of the river and the other, I didn't want to do something on one side of the river that I didn't do on the other.

Sheffield, Tuscumbia, and Muscle Shoals is located in Colbert County, and Florence is located in Lauderdale County.

Two different school systems, two different, I mean, fire stations, two different governments.

And so I went to the Muscle Shoals School System and asked them what they needed the most in their special needs department, and they told me that they needed a special needs playground at the middle school.

And then I went and I met with Becky Odell in the Florence School System and asked them in their special needs department what did they need the most, and they said that they needed a special needs playground at the high school.

And so I asked both of them to get me renderings and a quote, and of course the quotes came in a little over $58,000 each, which was way more money than we had ever raised.

And so I didn't know how we were gonna be able to raise that money.

So, I divided seating sections into 10 seat sections and did it different.

Like, the better the seats, the more expensive the sponsorship was.

And we sold sponsorships that way, and we raised over $217,000, all from local businesses.

It really was amazing.

So we were able to build the playground at the Muscle Shoals Middle School, the playground at the Florence High School.

And, you know, part of it was that raising money for The Healing Place was something that we had done for six years.

So, you know, they had written that into their budget.

Room In the Inn had disbanded after The Swampers show, and so at that point it became a fundraiser for The Healing Place, and I had to have a very difficult conversation with Earl McGuire and my friends at The Healing Place.

And obviously they were disappointed that we weren't gonna be raising money for their organization, but they were so nice to me.

And Earl, who is really my right hand man, he helps me sell tickets, he does all kinds of things to help with this project, continued to do that even knowing that he wasn't gonna get anything out of it.

(upbeat music) Mitch Mann came up with "Car Wash."

It was during COVID.

Scott Campbell started sending me videos.

He lives in Rivermont over in Sheffield, and people in his neighborhood got together as a band and started performing.

And he would send me audio that he'd recorded on his phone of their rehearsals, and there was this young lady singing.

I was like, "Who is that, man?"

And it was Natasha.

♪ Maybe even a Indian chief ♪ ♪ At the car wash ♪ ♪ Car wash, yeah ♪ She is phenomenal.

(chuckles) And so Scott introduced me to Natasha, so I was trying to figure out what Natasha should sing, and Mitch said, "How about 'Car Wash'?"

I was raised on country music, rebelled with metal, you know, Black Sabbath and Zeppelin, and then I discovered funk.

And gosh, I guess that's probably one of my favorite genres, actually.

The first bass player I saw slap a bass I think was Larry Graham.

I said, "Man, I got to do that."

Now, that's not a lotta slapping in that song, but it is, it is your typical Motown funk groove, and I just, I've always been attracted to dominant bass parts, and that song definitely has a dominant bass part.

♪ Oh yeah ♪ (band clapping) (funk music) (funk music continues) Let me see your hands!

Let's go!

(funk music continues) Oh yeah.

(funk music continues) (funk music continues) (funk music intensifies) (funk music continues) ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ ♪ You might not ever get rich ♪ ♪ Let me tell you it's better than diggin' a ditch ♪ ♪ Oh, ain't no tellin' who you might meet ♪ ♪ A movie star or maybe even a Indian chief ♪ ♪ Workin' at the car wash ♪ ♪ At the car wash, yeah ♪ ♪ Come on y'all and sing it now ♪ ♪ Car wash, yeah ♪ ♪ Come on and sing it now ♪ ♪ Car wash, yeah ♪ ♪ Woo ♪ ♪ Sometime the work gets kinda hard ♪ ♪ This ain't no place to be if you planned on bein' a star ♪ ♪ Let me tell ya it's always cool ♪ ♪ And the boss don't mind sometimes if you act a fool ♪ ♪ At the car wash ♪ ♪ Workin' at the car wash, yeah ♪ ♪ Come on, y'all, and sing it with me ♪ ♪ Car wash ♪ ♪ Sing it with feelin' now ♪ ♪ Car wash, yeah ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Work and work ♪ ♪ Whoa, those wheels never seem to stop comin' ♪ ♪ Work and work ♪ ♪ Keep those fancy machines comin' ♪ ♪ Work and work my fingers to the bone ♪ ♪ Work, can't wait till it's time ♪ ♪ To go home ♪ ♪ Hey, get your car washed today ♪ ♪ Fill up and you don't have to pay ♪ ♪ Come on and give us a play ♪ ♪ Do the wash right away ♪ ♪ The car wash ♪ ♪ At the car wash, yeah ♪ ♪ Come on, now sing it with me ♪ ♪ Car wash ♪ ♪ Sing it with feelin', y'all ♪ -♪ Car wash ♪ -♪ Car wash, yeah ♪ ♪ Wow ♪ ♪ Car wash ♪ ♪ Those cars never seem to stop comin' ♪ -♪ Car wash, yeah ♪ -♪ Woo ♪ ♪ Keep runnin' ♪ ♪ Car wash ♪ ♪ Get your car washed today ♪ ♪ Car wash, yeah ♪ -♪ Woo, ow ♪ -♪ Dave Vickrey ♪ (funky bass music) [Natasha] Hey, hey, yeah!

(funky bass music continues) ♪ Car wash ♪ ♪ Yeah, hey, yeah, hey ♪ ♪ Car wash, yeah ♪ ♪ Oh yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Car wash ♪ ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ ♪ At the car wash, yeah ♪ ♪ Hey, yeah ♪ (audience applauding and cheering) -All right, all right, -(group clapping) -all right.

-Woo!

[Crew Member] Hey, hang on a second.

How you feeling?

Woo!

Much better.

-We were jammin', man.

-It was fun.

(twangy guitar music) ♪ But I am very proud ♪ ♪ Of my daddy's ♪ Yeah, that was good.

(twangy guitar music) (chuckles) That's it.

♪ My name exactly the same ♪ Oh, Wayne!

Look at this guy.

-Hey, brother.

How you doin'?

-How are you, friend?

I am so blessed to see you.

-Really good to see you, man.

-Good to see you.

Always.

You know, to quote Patterson Hood, you know, he talks about in one of his songs about how he rebelled against songs played in his high school parking lot.

And that was kinda my take on Hank Williams, Jr.

Like it's not something that I, you know, I turn my nose up to it, and of course anytime it came on the radio in my car, I cranked it up, man.

(group chattering) No autographs.

He is altering the lyrics for Wayne Cheney over there.

I was hoping maybe he was just making the letters bigger so he could read 'em better, but no, he, he's changing the words, straight up.

Does he need to be videoing what you're doing?

I don't care.

We wanna include everybody on this show.

We want it to be an inclusive event, not an exclusive event.

And so, I always had Wayne Cheney on my list as far as someone I'd like to have involved.

When we came across "Family Tradition," we thought Wayne was a perfect fit.

Okay, we got a living legend here.

Bob Wray.

[Group Member] Yeah!

It was Hank Jr., Roger Clayton, Roger Clark, -Jerry Wallace.

-No (beep).

Mac McAnally and myself.

-Oh wow.

-The (indistinct) chorus.

That's the background vocals on that song.

Another thing, too, is like, we're so spoiled here.

You know, things are recorded that we don't even know about.

It was years before I knew that "Family Tradition" was actually recorded here, and we were lucky enough to get Bob Wray who played on the track and sang background vocals to be a part of this show.

You gotta hip it up a little bit.

Oh yeah.

(chuckles) (bass guitar music) Well I don't know about that.

Y'all havin' a good time?

What about this band?

You know, these guys are... I been all over the world and ain't nobody like this.

Some of the best on the planet.

I remember when he was little bitty fella playin' in Jasper.

They threw me out one night.

I got threw into some places, too, but I got throwed out of this one.

Whip it there, Dylan!

One, two, three, four.

-(bright music) -(Wayne yodels) ♪ Country music singers ♪ ♪ Been a real close family ♪ ♪ Lately some of my kin folks ♪ ♪ Have disowned a few others and me ♪ ♪ I guess it's because ♪ ♪ Kinda changed my direction ♪ ♪ Lord I guess I went and blew that old family tradition ♪ Y'all ready?

♪ Wanna know now, Hank, why do you drink ♪ [Group] To get drunk!

♪ Why do you roll smoke ♪ [Group] To get high!

♪ Why must you live out the songs that you wrote ♪ ♪ Over and over ♪ ♪ Everybody make my prediction ♪ ♪ If I get stoned and sing all night long ♪ ♪ It's a family tradition ♪ That's a fact.

♪ I am very proud of my daddy's name ♪ ♪ Although his kind of music ♪ ♪ And mine ain't exactly the same ♪ ♪ Well now, stop and think it over ♪ ♪ Put yourself in my position ♪ ♪ If I get stoned and sing all night long ♪ ♪ It's a family tradition ♪ ♪ So don't you ask me, Hank, why do you drink ♪ [Group] To get drunk!

♪ Well, why do you roll smoke ♪ [Group] To get high!

♪ Why must you live out the songs that you wrote ♪ ♪ I'm down in some old honky tonk ♪ ♪ And old slick tried to give me friction ♪ ♪ I said leave me alone ♪ ♪ I'm singin' all night long ♪ ♪ It's a family tradition ♪ Pluck that thing, boy.

(bright fiddle music) (yodels) Yeah!

Brother Donny Carpenter.

(bright fiddle music continues) Scott Todd.

(twangy guitar music) (yodels) Yeah!

(bright music) ♪ I have loved some ladies ♪ ♪ I have loved Jim Beam ♪ ♪ They both tried to kill me ♪ ♪ In 1973 ♪ ♪ When I died they asked me ♪ ♪ Say, son, how'd you get in this condition ♪ ♪ I said, hey sawbones, I'm just carryin' on ♪ ♪ That old family tradition ♪ ♪ Why don't you ask me ♪ ♪ Said Hank, why do you drink ♪ ♪ Come on ♪ ♪ Why do you roll smoke ♪ ♪ Why must you live out the songs that you wrote ♪ ♪ Stop and think it over ♪ ♪ Put yourself in my unique position ♪ ♪ I get stoned and sing all night long ♪ ♪ It's a family tradition ♪ ♪ Hey (yodels) ♪ (audience applauding and cheering) (chuckles) Thank y'all.

Enjoyed it.

How 'bout this band one more time.

Make some noise.

Show 'em some love.

(audience applauding and cheering) (gentle music) My mom was a counselor at Northwest Alabama Cancer Center and so she saw the need for a children's grief center working with adults who were passing away of cancer.

And she watched a video of the Dougy Center, which is the National Center for Grieving Children, and she was like, "We're gonna have a place like that here for children and families in Northwest Alabama."

And so she and Sharon Scoggin, who was a nurse at the cancer center, came together and started just dreaming about what that would look like, and Sharon's brother ended up building a house for us in Spring Valley.

And so the first healing place was in memory of his dad, and started serving children in 2001.

So we're coming up on 25 years of helping grieving children and families in the Shoals.

♪ Ah ha, ah ♪ We start at age 3 to 19, and then we also have a young adult group.

But for that 3 to 19-year-old age range, we do groups where the parents and caregivers are involved as well.

And so it's really helpful because one of the biggest indicators of how well a child will adjust after the death of a loved one is how well the parent is adjusting.

So, we can work with the parents also, and so that's a big benefit to our program.

We go into Colbert, Franklin, Lauderdale County Schools and serve about 500 kids once a month in the school systems.

And that's one of my favorite programs because when we started The Healing Place, it was like, we're here, but the kids are in school.

And so when working with the schools, we're able to collaborate with counselors and teachers and let the school system know that this kid has had a significant loss and encourage other sources of support for those kids.

And they also meet other kids at their school who've had a death because they may feel like the only one going through what they're going through, but that lets them know they're not alone.

So many kids after the death of a loved one are angry that their special person is not with them anymore.

And so, sometimes they may get into trouble, they may get into fights at school, they may, you know, stop getting along with people that they once got along with, but we teach them that every emotion's okay, including anger.

It's what you do with it that matters.

And so we have a volcano room, it's a padded room.

They can go in there and rip things up, they can throw things.

The rule is one at a time.

The kids love to come because they learn that anger is okay.

It's what you do with it that matters.

So, they can go in there and throw things and tear things up, and then they get their anger out and they hopefully feel better, and are able to go on and have a productive day.

The Muscle Shoals Meets concert series has been phenomenal in helping us serve children because my least favorite part of what I do is raising funds.

And so having Russell do this and the musicians and the sponsors who support it, we are so appreciative of it because it allows us to go into the schools when there's a death.

We've been called several times this year in crisis situations, student suicides, teacher deaths, and we respond and we're able to do that through funding with Muscle Shoals Meets.

And so, meeting those community needs is just priceless.

♪ Will live as one ♪ ♪ London calling to the faraway towns ♪ ♪ Now war is declared and battle come down ♪ As a high school kid trying to, you know, smoke cigarettes and be cool, punk rock was was another vehicle for me and I loved it, I love punk, and I love The Clash.

The only band that matters.

♪ London calling ♪ [Russell] Jamie Barrier is the perfect vehicle to put that song across.

Hey y'all, I hope I didn't... -No.

-I don't count.

Dude, you went right with the chart.

All right, cool.

Good.

Sometimes on the fours and the eights I'll jump the gun.

We'll follow you anyway.

"London Calling," I remember the first time I heard it was, Todd Bean was like a radio DJ and I was driving down Wood Avenue and I heard it in my pickup.

It floored me, man.

[Drummer] One, two, three, four.

(tense music) (tense music continues) (tense music continues) ♪ London calling from the faraway town ♪ ♪ War is declared, and battle come down ♪ ♪ London calling the underworld ♪ ♪ Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls ♪ ♪ London calling ♪ ♪ Now don't look to us ♪ ♪ Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust ♪ ♪ London calling ♪ ♪ See we ain't got no swing ♪ ♪ Except for the ring, this truncheon thing ♪ ♪ The ice age is coming, sun's zooming in ♪ ♪ Meltdown's expected, the wheat is growing thin ♪ ♪ The nuclear error but I have no fear ♪ ♪ 'Cause London is drowning, and I ♪ ♪ I live by the river ♪ ♪ London calling ♪ ♪ The imitation zone ♪ ♪ Forget it, pal, you can go it alone ♪ ♪ London calling ♪ ♪ To the zombies of death ♪ ♪ Quit holding out, and draw another breath ♪ ♪ London calling ♪ ♪ Don't need to shout ♪ ♪ But while we were talking, I saw you nodding out ♪ ♪ London calling ♪ ♪ We ain't got no high ♪ ♪ Except for the one with the yellowy eye ♪ ♪ The ice age is coming ♪ ♪ Sun's zooming in ♪ ♪ Downtown's expensive, the wheat is growing thin ♪ ♪ A nuclear error, but I have no fear ♪ ♪ 'Cause London is drowning, and I ♪ ♪ I live by the river ♪ (tense music) ♪ Ah ah ah ah ah ♪ (tense music continues) ♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪ (dramatic rock music) (dramatic music continues) ♪ And the ice age is coming, the sun's now wigglin' ♪ ♪ Downtown's expensive, the wheat is growing thin ♪ ♪ A nuclear error, but I have no fear ♪ ♪ 'Cause London is drowning and I ♪ ♪ I live by the river ♪ ♪ Ah ah ah ah ♪ ♪ Woo ♪ ♪ Ah ah ah ♪ (dramatic music continues) ♪ Look out ♪ ♪ Yes, yes ♪ ♪ London calling, yes, I was there, too ♪ ♪ You heard what they all said ♪ ♪ Some of it was true ♪ ♪ London calling ♪ ♪ The top of the dial ♪ ♪ And after all this, won't you give us a smile ♪ ♪ London calling ♪ (dramatic music) ♪ Yeah ♪ ♪ Never felt so much alike, alike, alike, alike, alike ♪ (audience applauding and cheering) Jimmy Nutt on the bass.

♪ Baby I'll try to love again but I know ♪ ♪ The first cut is the deepest ♪ ♪ Baby I know ♪ ♪ The first cut is the deepest ♪ "First Cut" is another song that was cut here in Muscle Shoals.

Rod Stewart did it.

I didn't realize for years that Cat Stevens actually wrote that song.

I was familiar that Rod Stewart had cut it.

There's a great story that he thought David Hood and those guys were like the janitors of the studio and not the real musicians.

"First Cut is the Deepest" is a song that I sang a bunch as a solo, just like acoustic giggin' around town.

And I do that on the side, obviously I've done that for years.

I did that song a lot back in the day and then Sheryl Crow cut it.

So I was really familiar with that one, but it's always really, really cool when you do acoustic all the time to get up with the band and do a song and then you got all the parts there.

What can I say?

It was bad (beep).

It was really cool.

It's my first gig, y'all.

(audience laughs) I got it.

If I keep tryin', right?

(gentle music) ♪ I would have given you all of my heart ♪ ♪ But there's someone who's torn it apart ♪ ♪ And he's taken just all that I had ♪ ♪ But if you want I'll try to love again ♪ ♪ Baby, I'll try to love again but I know ♪ ♪ The first cut is the deepest ♪ ♪ Baby, I know ♪ ♪ The first cut is the deepest ♪ ♪ When it comes to being lucky he's cursed ♪ ♪ When it comes to loving me he's worst ♪ ♪ I still want you by my side ♪ ♪ Just to help me dry the tears that I've cried ♪ ♪ And I'm sure gonna give you a try ♪ ♪ 'Cause if you want, I'll try to love again ♪ ♪ Try ♪ ♪ Baby, I'll try to love again but I know ♪ ♪ Whoa ♪ ♪ The first cut is the deepest ♪ ♪ Baby, I know ♪ ♪ The first cut is the deepest ♪ ♪ When it comes to being lucky he's cursed ♪ ♪ When it comes to loving me he's worst ♪ ♪ Oh, pick it now ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) ♪ And I still want you by my side ♪ ♪ Just to help me dry the tears I cried ♪ ♪ And I'm sure gonna give you a try ♪ ♪ And if you want, I'll try to love again ♪ -♪ Try to love again ♪ -♪ Try ♪ ♪ Baby, I'll try to love again but I know ♪ ♪ Oh, oh ♪ ♪ The first cut is the deepest ♪ ♪ Baby, I know ♪ ♪ The first cut is the deepest ♪ ♪ When it comes to being lucky he's cursed ♪ ♪ When it comes to loving me he's worst ♪ ♪ Oh, oh ♪ ♪ And the first cut is the deepest ♪ ♪ Baby, I know ♪ ♪ The first cut is the deepest ♪ ♪ And I'll try to love again ♪ (audience applauding and cheering) Thank, y'all.

(audience applauding and cheering) Angela Hacker.

(upbeat music) ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ (upbeat music continues) ♪ As she stood in the street ♪ ♪ Smilin' from her head to her feet ♪ ♪ I said, hey, what is this now, baby ♪ ♪ Maybe, maybe she's in need of a kiss ♪ ♪ Well I said, hey, what's your game, baby ♪ ♪ Are you tryin' to put me to shame ♪ ♪ Well she said no, now we go ♪ ♪ Let's move before they raise the parking rate ♪ ♪ All right now ♪ ♪ Baby, it's all right now ♪ ♪ All right now ♪ ♪ Baby, it's all right now ♪ ♪ Yeah, baby ♪ ♪ Let me tell you about it ♪ (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music fades) [Announcer] The Shoals' number one hit music station.

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Very good.

-(group chattering) I think ELO kinda got a bad rap back in the day.

You know, they called 'em Beatles lite or whatever, but there's something about that song.

My son loves that song.

My wife loves that song.

I love that song.

I think everybody loves that song.

It's like Jeff Lynne tapped into something that's just pure joy, and that's what I get from "Mr.

Blue Sky."

♪ Today, eh, eh, eh ♪ When it plays it the second time, you do play this, and play that measure and then go on.

And this is just like, if it is exactly like the recording, so, we're just being prepared for in that case, which more than likely, 'cause they've all been practicing with the recordings, right?

I never dealt with, or never had the opportunity to work with string players before.

I kinda micromanage all this.

I mean, I overthink things and I just, I want it to be good, you know?

And so they were reluctant to come in and rehearse.

They were like, "We don't need it," you know?

I was like, "Well, we need it," you know, man.

So we had a rehearsal set up for the Nutthouse.

Like we were gonna start at one in the afternoon, and I had a load in at 12:30, and at like 12:20, all the string players showed up.

At 10 till 1:00, I mean, they literally were standing in front of their stands with, you know, I mean, in position ready to play and not one member of the Fiddleworms had shown up yet.

And we're thrilled to be here, man, so.

I don't know where you guys wanna set up, -or any idea how y'all wanna- -Is it okay if we just stand around him?

However y'all feel most comfortable, man.

Trying to figure out a choir, I mean, that was foreign to me.

(chuckles) I thought, well, you know, I grew up in the Episcopal Church and so I reached out Jake, who's a minister at St.

Bartholomew's and Trinity.

When Johnny was sick, he asked for a priest and Jake came in and was really awesome.

So I reached out to Jake, said, "Do you think the choir would wanna sing on a rock show?"

And he helped me put that together.

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