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Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Special guest is Terry Hale, bassist for 45 + years with the legendary George Strait and the Ace On The Hole Band! In Episode 18, Season 3 of Music Matters Podcast.

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

3.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Listen in on my chat with Terry Hale, bassist for over 45 years with the legendary George Strait and the Ace In The Hole Band! On Episode 18, Seasons 3 of Music Matters Podcast. Such a nice humble man with so many great stories, he’s the guy that actually hired George for their band many years ago! Here is a direct link to Terry Hale‘s consummate Country & Western Discography - https://www.discogs.com/artist/2954707-Terry-Hale#images/29727100 Love this Song/Video - George Strait - Amarillo By Morning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNibWP8f5PQ https://twitter.com/GeorgeStrait https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOmZHz5W3F17HraXlJveEJA Keep up to date with all the George Strait Gig date news: http://www.georgestrait.com/news/?year=2021 Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris to keep up to date with all our news, information, and podcast episodes. Sponsored by our friends at Switcher Studio in cooperation with Shure Shure UK VOYR Special shoutout to Jamie Hilboldt for his kindness! Please check out our Music Matters podcast on @spotifypodcasts and our New Music Matters Podcast Website Please, support, LIKE, and helps us grow - check out our Social Media pages:

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0:00.0

Welcome to Switcher Chats. Music interviews brought to you by Music Matters with

0:09.5

How Crank Harris and Music Tribes In It.

0:22.4

Terry Al, how you doing today?

0:24.2

Good fine, sir. How are you?

0:26.1

I'm good. So you have quite a story. And I mean, it's actually a really amazing story,

0:31.5

not only with you, but the entire ace in the whole band and George Strait and all that.

0:36.8

How did you, so you guys were, you said you went to university in San Marcos, Texas. Where are you from originally?

0:43.1

I'm originally from Oakland, California. I was born in Sacramento, moved to Oakland when I was like four.

0:48.6

Oh, okay. Cool. There's like 15.

0:52.2

Yeah, there's something in the water in Oakland, right? For music.

0:55.2

Yeah, it's definitely got the funk, man. It's good.

0:58.6

Yeah, so many great players came out there. I mean, obviously you were young too, but.

1:03.6

Okay, so I saw them all in the Kingdom Hall and the Union Hall down.

1:07.1

I saw Slion of Family Stone. I saw the Airplane. I saw the Tower of Power. I saw all of those cats,

1:12.9

man. That's awesome. Yeah, I have a lot of friends. We have probably a lot of mutual friends out of

1:17.2

Airplane. So then when did you start playing bass?

1:21.5

I started playing bass when I was 11 years old. I did my first gig for our sixth grade graduation

1:28.4

party there in California. We played Louis Louis about 12 times in a song we wrote called The

1:34.2

Fog that had two chords. Use both of them. Yeah, yeah. I kind of have a similar

1:40.3

map. Yeah, I started junior high school. So I'm a bass player too. And I know we have a

1:44.6

neutral friend, Jamie Hillbolt, who I should actually, I should mention. So he's a very well-known

1:49.4

keeper player based out of Austin plays with Gary Bucket, which and I met him for many years,

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