and thinking of fun stuff to do and i loved the music and everybody loved that and we got the big idea, i don t know who it was, porter or buck. why don t you do the mule skinner blues. okay, i will. we started recording the song and had fun doing it. i remember doing that because i remember porter had a whip in the studio and recording the whip and that and whistling on the record and memorable to make and became a huge hit. the big breakout song where you went from country artist to an artist with universal appeal here you come again 1977. here you come again, just when i m about to get myself together tried the door, like you ve done before and you wrapped my heart around your little finger and that turned out to be number one in three different
church or they were singing those old mountain songs that came from the old world, you know, england, ireland, scotland, and all of those songs and it was still all rooted in the church and i think that s where people, certainly like me, i m an emotion until singer and i feel everything in my core and when mama used to sing the sad songs and break your heart if you were really in there and i think that that kind of gets embedded in that smoky mountain dna, i call it, and the church stuff where you ve got to have that hope, you know how it is when you sing a gospel song, you re a musician, a singer, and when you sing a sacred song, gospel song or a christmas song it s a different feeling, it s an emotional attachment. so, i really think that, you know, that mountain music when you sit around and that s just your entertainment, you don t go to town to go to the movies. you don t have radios and televisions, we didn t back then. so that was our recreation and
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the church was part of our recreation, too, and that s where being in that pentecostal holy roller church, it was exciting to me, you know, for people to if you got carried away, that song was good and you got up and shouted, so what? and the voice and i still feel it, so, yes, i think that that church music and that mountain sound is really what anchored me and i think that so many of us great country artists. agine with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta.
genres of music and that s pretty rare and even more rare in the 1970 s for an artist to cross over like that. was that intentional? or did it just happen and the rest is history? well, it was intentional, but thank god it happened. mike: yeah. you know, i was like left porter s show and i wanted to go out on my own. porter and i d had a lot of trouble and me getting away and wrote the song ill always love you, about that situation and i went on my own, and management in new york, they re not going to be interested in you, you re not with porter and i couldn t believe that. i went up there and to the two heads of rca and i went in, and i understand that you re going to drop hee from the label if i leave porter s show. who told you that? i said porter. (laughter) i said, well, is it true? because i m going to be a star, i m going to get off and