that is good. That is all that matters, right? That's right
First of all, I want to talk about how great Nighthawk is, your latest release, I love it. I love the mix of old cowboy songs and remakes of some of your classics. What made you decide to pay tribute to the cowboys on this album Charlie? Michael, I've been getting songs together for this album for . . . I don't even know how many years. I didn't keep up with when I first started, but it was always in the back of my mind that I was going to do a cowboy album though. I wanted to do an album of working cowboys songs as opposed to movie cowboy songs.
Oh yeah. . . . and I just kept, when I would find a song I liked, I'd just stick it in the back of my mind and just think, ya know, when I get enough I'll get'er done. So I finally got enough songs to do an album and it's a tribute to the work- ing cowboy, it's not really a very, you know, commercial sort of album as far as radio air- play or that sort of thing. That really wasn't what we were after. I had a special thought in mind on this record, I wanted to play tribute to the working cowboys, so I think we man- aged to do that.
That's great. The working cowboy is just like the American farmer- they are very,very important. But going the other route, just as out of curiosity, thinking of the singing cowboys of the old days in the 40’s and 50’s, I grew up watching them on TV and my mom and dad loved them all. Did you ever watch Roy Rogers and Gene Autry and that stuff? Every Saturday.
(Buffalo laughs) When I was a kid, that is what played in every theatre in the south that I knew anything about, in every little town I ever lived in - which was quite a few of 'em over the years. Every Saturday it was Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Sunset Carson, Bob Steel, "Lash" LaRue. . . every Saturday.
Charlie kicks out the jams with Brad Paisley.
Yeah. Movies were a lot less expensive then too weren't they? That was the good ole days. I use to go to the movies for 9 cents.
(Laughing) Nine cents! Not 10 cents but nine cents! Yeah 9 cents
That's nice man. I remember my mom was all about Gene Autry, my dad liked this guy Hop Along Cassady a lot. Oh Yeah. For sure.
Well, congratulations are in order for your being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. That’s very pretty prestigious. And you were inducted alongside Randy Travis and Fred Fos- ter, two other good ones on Oct 16,
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