Diamond Rio’s Marty Roe & Jimmy Olander: “The Star Still Shines” at Christmas

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🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Six-time Vocal Group of the Year Diamond Rio has been one of the most successful bands in country music history. They won a Grammy for their first Christian Record “The Reason,” and have also produced a Christmas album called “The Star Still Shines.” Currently, they are the artists in residence at Gaylord’s Opryland Hotel Resort in Nashville and have been bringing joy to audiences through their Christmas show “Holiday & Hits.” Lead singer Marty Roe and guitarist Jimmy Olander visit with us on the podcast to share what Christmas meant to them growing up and what it means to them now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we speak with two members of the country
0:07.3	music supergroup Diamond Rio. Marty Rowe and Jimmy Olander grew up with completely different ideas about Christmas.
0:14.8	They discuss what Christmas means to them both then and now.
0:18.8	They also talk about the band's new Christmas show at Nashville's Gaylord
0:23.4	Opryland Resort called Diamond Rio Holiday and the Hits and why it was
0:28.1	important to them to share the hope of Christ in this show that is reaching
0:31.8	thousands of people this Christmas.
0:34.6	I'm Marty Rowe with the group Diamond Reel. I'm the lead singer.
0:38.8	And I'm Jimmy O'lander and I play guitar.
0:41.6	A Christmas at my house was mostly about family and family gathering.
0:49.2	We obviously, when we were a little gift exchange was a big deal. My grandfather on my mother's
0:55.2	side was just a large child and so he never could wait till Christmas so he would usually Christmas on Christmas Eve and then
1:07.0	my other grandparents it was you know they were strict you know traditional Christmas
1:12.0	Christmas morning so it was cool with us because you know we kind of got stuff in the morning in the evening and in the morning but as as we went on Christmas was definitely a faith-based holiday for us and church was involved somehow or another.
1:31.0	And then with my children we've taken that a little further and we always had a Christmas
1:37.0	program. My children would read, you know, the birth story and they would act it out.
1:44.7	Actually one of us adults would read it and they all fought over who was going to be
1:48.5	Joseph and Mary and I think it's because they wanted to hold the baby doll but we it's just been
1:57.6	about family coming together and being very thankful and grateful for for the gift of Jesus.
2:04.0	Mine was totally different.
2:06.0	I did not grow up in a Christian household.
2:10.0	We were forbidden to go to church.
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