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Hello and thank you so much for listening to another Midnight Meet podcast.

Part of weeknights on five live Monday to Thursday 10, 30pm to 1am and this

premiere is actually on a Tuesday night in the Wednesday morning at Midnight, of course,

because that's what's called Midnight Meet.

This is a really special episode this.

I think I would start with the line from Leonard Skinner's Sweet Home Alabama.

My muscles shows has got its swampers and they've been known to pick a song or two.

That's a muscle shows rhythm section and an in-studio ensemble that

changed the sound of modern music and recorded with everybody and I mean everybody.

Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Edda James, Percy Sledge and then on to Rod Stewart and

the Rolling Stones and the list goes on and on and on and it's a, it goes way, way back in time and

sadly the swampers have passed away.

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