A friend of mine from New York contacted me, and he was asking if there was any way I could go to third man records on record store day here in Nashville and buy this Elvis album

that they were re-releasing it was Elvis's first ever recording it was when he walked into

Sun Records and recorded my happiness as a gift for his mother and I thought well I'll give it a

try I told him I wasn't going to stand out all night in line or anything,

which I used to do back when I was a kid. You know, many people listening to this remembers the day of camping out the night before the concert so you could get in the first,

second or third row. I used to do that. But I thought if I could go out there and stand in line

for maybe two hours, I'd go ahead and pick it up for him.

And from there, I decided that there were two other friends of mine in England that might appreciate if I sent them a copy.

I wasn't going to buy one for myself because I'm not really a collector.

I went there an hour before they opened, there at Third Man, and stood in line, and then when they opened up,

the line moved quite a bit. There was a really long line when I got there, probably six or

seven blocks long, but it moved quite a bit when they first opened, and I thought, all right,

I'll get in in maybe two hours. Two hours go by. I'm still standing there. Three hours go by. I'm still standing there.

And there's a lot of homeless people who showed up, these drunk homeless men, and they were all

laughing and pointing at all of us in line. Said, you people are crazy. What are you doing? You people are crazy. And I think they were right.

But I stood there and I thought I'm going to buy this. And then word was coming down the line

that you could only buy one copy. So I thought, all right, well, I'll buy the one. I can't get a

couple for my friends in England, but I'll get the one for my buddy in

New York, and he'll be happy. So I waited four hours go by. The line's still not moving. And I start

realizing I have to drive five hours to St. Louis as soon as I get done here. And five hours

went by, and there was rumors going down the line that they were out

of records and the line wasn't moving so I stood in line for five hours and I still wasn't even

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