The Michael Berry show I feel so fortunate to be 53 years old

And we didn't know how great it was at the time and we didn't know it wouldn't continue forever? How could we? How could we know it

would change so dramatically? But I think about starting in about 2000 I was about 30 when I really turned my sights to

Texas red dirt country scene and over those next few years and it had already

started so and over those next few years and it had already started.

So you had Robert Earl King and Charlie Robison and I would come to Ray Wiley

Hubbard years later,

but you had Robert Earl King and Charlie Robinson,

whose music I immediately gravitated toward.

And it was such a natural transition. gravitated toward.

And it was such a natural transition

from Jimmy Buffett into Jerry Jeff Walker.

And the fascinating thing about that. This is how things this is why you help other people.

I have been criticized by some for helping other people in my industry because the perception is then

they become your competitors. If that is your mentality you are not enjoying

the riches of life. If your idea is whack-a-mole and keep everybody else from ever

rising up because they might become a threat to you.

That's a political world.

That's a small world.

That is when you were the monarch by birth

and you're afraid someone will take it.

That is no way to live your life.

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