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The episode begins after a performance of "Wildwood Flower". The next song featured is a Hank Williams song called "Your Cheating Heart," featuring Jim Brooks.
Following that, a song made popular by Connie Smith in the mid-60s is performed, titled "Cry Cry Cry". It is noted that Connie Smith married Marty Stewart, who met her when he was 12 and she was 27.
Moving into the 70s, a popular Loretta Lynn song, "You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man," is performed. The daughters of Loretta Lynn, the Lynns, are mentioned as becoming popular. The next song is a Patsy Cline number called "Walking After Midnight". The speaker mentions her father played bass for Patsy Cline for three shows. Another Hank Williams tune is introduced, called "Hey, Good looking". Hank Weddington is called on to do an Alabama song that was popular about 12 years prior, titled "Lady Down on Love".
Hank is called on once more to do one of his favorite Garth Brooks songs, "Tomorrow Never Comes". The speaker then puts Becca on the spot before she performs "Salty Dog Blues," asking for an explanation of the phrase "Let me be your salty dog". After some discussion, a definition is provided that a "salty dog" is a rounder, someone who cannot be trusted around your spouse. The speaker then encourages the audience to participate by changing "gal" to "man" or keeping "gal" during the song. The song "Salty Dog Blues" is then performed. After the song, the speaker thanks the musicians. Jim is asked if he dances.
The tempo slows down for a waltz number, and Hank Weddington does the lead vocal on a song called "Kentucky Waltz".
The next song is introduced as the national anthem of bluegrass music and the state song of Tennessee, identified by an audience member as "Rocky Top". This song, written by Feliz and Boudleaux Bryant and made popular by the Osborne brothers, is then performed.
Wade Edward Brown is introduced, and the speaker asks him about his book and why he chose to write it at 91. Mr. Brown explains his children and others were interested in his stories. He clarifies the book is not an autobiography but recollections. The speaker reads from the book about courting practices at Mars Hill College, where couples walked in a line with faculty members. Mr. Brown confirms it was strict and mentions a "soup line" walk where sneaky kisses might be possible around curves. Mr. Brown is asked about three significant women in his life: his mother, his first love at Mars Hill with whom he was engaged for eight years but couldn't marry at the time, and the woman he married and lived with for 53 and a half years. He recounts reconnecting and marrying his first love years later after his wife passed away. The speaker then reads an excerpt from the epilogue of Mr. Brown's book, reflecting on changes from horse and buggy to space exploration and wishing for equal progress in moral and spiritual development. Information about Wade Brown's life is provided: born in 1907 in Blowing Rock, attended Silver Lake School, Mars Hill High School and College, graduated from Wake Forest Law School in 1931. His first law office was in the Blackburn Motel. His various offices and accomplishments are listed, including mayor of Boone, State Senator and Representative, chairman of the NC Board of Parole, consultant for the NC Attorney General, involvement in the Boone Golf Course, Watauga County Hospital, prison chapel, Horn in the West drama, Boone Lions Club, and Hospice of Watauga County.
Subject
Country music
Appalachian Region, Southern
North Carolina, Western
Shannon, Joe Wayne, 1949-2014
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