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John Hyatt is a national-based singer-songwriter whose songs have been covered by a wide range of popular artists, including Iggy Pop, Palab Dool and Jimmy Buffett.

This is the homeboot in a middle of the night.

Bugs flying everywhere, crazy in a gas station light.

Hyatt signed his first record deal in 1974, and in the years since, he's released 24 albums.

His latest, leftover feelings, recorded with the Jerry Douglas band.

Douglas, who's a fainte producer and session musician, has won 14 Grammys for solo work and collaborations with a series of successful musicians.

He's also known as one of the foremost masters of the Doe Bro, an instrument similar to the Laps' deal guitar.

On today's episode, John Hyatt and Jerry Douglas performed three songs off their new album and talked to Bruce Hadlam about how they came together to record that album, and the studio that's known as the birthplace of the Nashville Sound.

John Hyatt also explains how one of his new songs helped him forgive the horrific abuse seen by orphans all the brother, when he was growing up.

This is Broken Record, line of notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Richmond.

Here's Bruce Hadlam with John Hyatt and Jerry Douglas.

Tell me a bit about you hadn't worked together. I don't think you'd worked directly together before. How did it even come about that you were working together?

Jerry, how in the hell did we wind up with each other?

We're both suddenly under the same managerial umbrella. Our managers got together and talked and said, well, why don't those guys do a record together? They know each other. Why haven't they ever recorded together?

We actually have recorded together on the second Circle B Unbroken record. I was in the house band that played every day and John came through with Roseanne Cass.

We did a song for them and Jerry played with everybody.

We did do that and we've done each other for a long time and had some great conversations. When it came up, I thought, yeah, that'd be great. Who wouldn't want to do a record with John Hyatt anyway?

I felt the same way I was excited about the idea of playing with the man who was the logical next prince of the Dobro. Tutt Taylor, to Mike Aldridge and Josh Graves. Then you have Jerry Douglas.

Did you come in with all the songs ready to go? Were you picking through songs and looking through files? I sent Jerry about 15 tunes, a couple of older ones, one of which we did on the record.

I wrote a song called Little Good Night, which I wrote when my 33 year old daughter was born, but I had never recorded it. That was kind of fun. Then we re-did a song, All the Lylux in Ohio, which was on a record I put out in 2003.

Everything else was relatively new. About five or six of them I wrote. I'd call them pandemic songs.

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