because they didn t take all the blue m&ms out of the bowl in your dressing room like you asked. it s kind of ridiculous at times how spoiled we are. this really brings you together, makes you realize what is important, which is all the important things in life and the fact that people are healthy and we can hopefully rebuild some things for folks. brad, what are you going to be performing? i m going to be doing a couple of things. i m going to do welcome to the future to kick off the show tonight. then i m going to do later on in the program i m going to do a song that was written by one of my heroes, roger miller, called river in the rain. it s a song that came from big river, his musical, which is a tribute to huck fin. roger being one of my heroes, i named my son huck. that s a beautiful story. you now have to give me a couple lines as we say good-bye to you. since we all cannot be there in nashville. lines of the song, you mean? yeah.
hall jazz bad is with us now. ben, good to see you. thank you for having me. so no hesitation whatsoever that you wanted to be part of this huge event. it s like ten hours over two different stages there in new orleans today. absolutely. the most powerful voice that we have as musicians is our music. and this is a way to get out the message that we re facing one of the largest catastrophes in our history. so what will you all be performing today? we re actually going to be performing a song we recorded just two days ago with lenny kr kravitz and mos def. i woke up one morning, over coffee with a friend started talking abtd hurricane and what we could do. not the hurricane but the oil spill and what we could do and what we could do to get out there and make our voice a
yeah, well, like that song is talking about the love affair with with the fact that this river is this way that you get around. at the same time, it s unpredictable and it takes away the things you treasure at times. that s what we have here. we love the cumberland river. it s been sort of the life blood of this city for centuries. but right now we re kind of questioning it a little bit and hoping that it gets back to the size it ought to be. all right. brad paisley, thanks so much. all the best. have a great concert. thanks. thanks for watching, everybody. hope we raise some money. i m sure you will. all right. we re going to talk some more about what s going on in the gulf area as well as the oil spill threatens the shoreline. it s also putting the already fragile ecosystem beneath the surface at risk. there s a unique program going on across the country and in the gulf aimed at actually rejuf nating sea life through artificial reefs. reefs, by the way, made of