Born, not busy dying. [ applause ] hey, mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me sounds familiar. Im not sleepy and theres no place im going to hey mister, sing that song for me a Jingle Jangle morning ill come following you i know that evenings empire has returned into sand vanished from my hand left me blindly here to stand, but still not sleeping my weariness amazes me i am branded on my feet i have no one to meet my ancient empty streets too dead for dreaming i used to know all of bob dylans records before i was governor. I think everything that Willie Nelson wrote. Allman brothers helped put me in the white house by raising money when i didnt have any money. Gregg and i were good friends. The allman brothers had been here and bob dylan has not been here. But Willie Nelson has been here and johnny cash has been here. We got married in a fever, hotter than he brought judy cash down here. We always claimed that she was my cousin. When Willie Nelson wrote his autobiography, he confessed that he smoked pot in the white house one night when he was spending the night with me. And he says that his companion that shared the pot with him was one of the servants at the white house. That is not exactly true. It actually was one of my sons, which he didnt want to categorize as a pot smoker like him. There were some people who didnt like my being deeply involved with Willie Nelson and bob dylan and disreputable rock and rollers. But i didnt care about that because i was doing what i really believed. And the response, i think, from the followers of those musicians was much more influential than a few people who thought that being associated with rock and roll and radical people was inappropriate for a president. One of the things that has held america together, when weve been together, has been the music that we share and love. I would say the common beat people have within them, a desire for Country Music or desire for rock and roll or desire for jazz or a desire for Classical Music is something that binds people together. When i was a child, for instance, i used to go to gospel performances just of local singers. And sometimes we would have allnight gospel sings in various churches around where i lived. So, i think the origin of jazz and maybe later rock and roll came out of gospel music. Jimmy carter was from georgia and he wasnt from atlanta, by the way. He was from this little town down there in south georgia. So, to appreciate gospel museic and to understand what Shirley Caesar was about was real and you could tell it. Jimmy carter would go to a black church. They would start singing. He would start singing. He wouldnt pick up the hymnal. He knew the words to the songs. We were raised on mahalia jackson. And what you always heard in mahalias voice was easy. Thats why they call rock and roll the devil music was gospel was gods music and thats where it all began. The black sheep of the family was rock and roll. Right . In the south, it was connected because i grew up singing in the church choir, which was which was fine. It was Traditional Church songs. But i also grew up a huge Elvis Presley fan, and elvis was so influenced by gospel. Gospel music is derived from deep within the heart of human beings. We have been to waycross, georgia, where they have all day singings, by that i mean 24 hours. Weve been down to flar flar where they have 24hour sings. We apologize for cutting this short. There was a wonderful compatibility between the church songs that were prevalent in white churches and church songs that were prevalent in africanamerican churches. So i think music broke down barriers between people, not only geographically, but between the two races. I grew up listening to that because thats part of what dad played. We were liberals and we were not racist. In plains, that meant you had two other friends. He grew up in a county that was 80 black. He probably never had white friends until he went to the navy. He was just an anomaly that i had never seen before. Ill fly away oh glory ill fly away when i die hal hallelujah by and by ill fly away plains. Pioneering white men fought to claim the land of the indians they sent west to die. Our families moved in then to occupy the Rolling Plains that gave the town its name. There were only half a thousand souls, white and black, the master and the slave. Neither side ever forgot each others ways to reach their common goals. Now as equals free to rise or fall together, weve learned we must depend on one another. The town is small, we cherish it as haven, home and friend and wont let strife or mischance bring to all our dreams and modest tempered dreams an end. Thats beautiful. My folks have been farmers in georgia for more than 200 years. And weve been living around here for, i dont know, 150 years. I grew up in a home that didnt have Running Water or electricity until i was a teenager. Ive had a good chance to get an education as an engineer or scientist. Nobody in my family had a chance to finish high school. Weve always worked for a living. We know what it means to work. I never did i never did spank him. I might have given you a little lick in passing. But not a real whipping. I never gave him one. I left that with his father. We had a battery radio, and in the times we used it, daddy was stingy with how many hours a day we would use the battery radio so we wouldnt run the battery down. We could get nashville and sometimes we could get chicago. We could hear Country Music then. I would listen to glen miller for 15 minutes. So, that was my only contact, you might say, with the outside world at all. Id look at the great co composures that have come before me, and i see how they changed society. I see how as Harry Belafonte once said to me that artists are the gate keepers of truth. Did your dad play an instrument . The stereo. He played the stereo well. When we had no money at all, dad spent 600 on the best stereo in plains, georgia. Huge speakers and it would blow you out. It was fantastic. He would let us, as children, me and my brothers, play our music on it. He would stay in there and learn the songs and try to figure out what we were doing that way. Its one of the ways he kind of stayed in touch with his children. I would like to welcome our special guest this morning to the open line program, former state senator and gubernatorial candidate jimmy carter. I replaced Lester Maddux in the Governors Mansion. The symbol was a pick hammer he used to drive away africanamerican customers who came to his chicken restaurant. He bragged on that as being a stall wart defender of racial segregation. It was a really hard time politically. When i was in high school, i got beat up every day because i refused to denounce africanamericans. My shirt would be torn. I would go home and my mother would take a new shirt for me to wear the rest of the last half of the classroom. It was a bad time back then. For years, the solid south were very segregationist and very lets just call it racist. They were antiblack. When i came into the Governors Mansion, one of the first things i did in the Governors Office was to hang Martin Luther kings portrait there because he won the nobel peace prize. The only georgia to become the recipient of the nobel peace award and dr. King was a man who pledged the welfare of his fellow men above his own and who assumed the burden of demanding of a country that it remedy the inequities experienced by the black man and poor man of whatever color. Woah, georgia woah, georgia jimmy carter was a leader in civil rights. He was part of this transitional generation of southern governors that were just absolutely magnificent. The greatest thing that ever happened to the south was the passage of a Civil Rights Act and the granting to our minority groups of a chance to vote, to hold a job, to buy a home, to be educated, to travel on an equal basis in accordance with their own choice. There were southerners who went to the ivy leagues and came back home. They started bipartisan think tanks. They were freedom riders. There was this camelot decade or two in the south that carter was part of. Jimmy carter represented the new south. He represented hope for the south, where as the slaves used to say, there would be plenty of room for all gods children. And he did. He represented that and embodied it. Oh, georgia my little georgia oh, no, no, no, no peace i find this old sweet song keeps georgia on my mind so, georgia is this very interesting place. As a black musician, you cant help but be influenced by james brown lyrics. And when james brown goes, the name of this place, good god, is augusta ga, georgia in our heads has a different kind of vibe. Music has the capacity to speak on multiple levels. Theres the level of the word, the lyrics thats there. But sometimes theres a deeper level on what the music connects inside the brain and maybe better yet inside the soul. We were coming into a new era and the al allman brothers was an integrated band. And i think carter, you know, he did that politically while we were doing, perhaps, musically. In those days, it was mostly rock and roll. We were all into folk a good bit because of the politics of it. I aint gonna work on maggies farm no more when i was governor, my sons were living in the Governors Mansion with me, bob dylans music permeated the Governors Mansion. My sons and i were brought closer together through bob dylans songs. Chip knew every lyric of every bob dylan song that had ever been written. I remember he and i had a spat. I spent over a year without speaking to him. And we would communicate by the third song on the second bob dylan album and Bla Bla Bla Bla bla f without ever actually talking to each other other. He hands you a nickel he hands you a dime he asks you with a grin if youre having a good time and he finds you every time you slam the door i aint gonna work for maggies brother no more. Bob dylan and his band performed in atlanta. I was governor. I invited them to the Governors Mansion. My sons were very eager to be with the band. I was honored because bob dylan asked me to go out in the garden as a matter of fact and have a private conversation with him. The only questions he asked were questions about my Christian Faith and what it meant to me and the basic principles of it. When i first met jimmy, the first thing he did was quote my songs back to me. It was the first time i realized my songs had reached into the establishment world, and i had no experience in that realm, never seen that side. So, it made me a little uneasy. He put my mind at ease by not talking down to me and showing me that he had a sincere appreciation of the songs i had written. Shake me up in my mind prove to me that hes lord show me a sign what kind of sign you need when it all comes from within whats lost has been found whats to come has already been i just keep pressing on holding on he is a Kindred Spirit to me of a rare kind, the kind of man you dont meet every day and you are lucky to meet if you do. Bob dylan has been one of my best friends along with Willie Nelson and others. Probably he and bob had a lot of good ideas to exchange because they come from entirely different places. Jimmy and i basically come from the statement spot. We had been invited to this party that governor carter was throwing for bob dylan. So, we got there just as the last guest was leaving. Bob dylan and his band had already come home. Im sure i had taken off my dressup clothes. Theres this guy standing on the porch. He had on this old pair of levi. Holes all in them, no shirt, no shoes. I thought, who is this bum hanging out at the Governors Mansion . Well, that was him. Theres a full bottle of j b scotch sitting there, which we proceeded to drink just about all of. And he says, you know, im going to be our next president. I went out on the porch and had a drink with gregg. I dont remember a bottle of scotch. I generally limited myself to one drink of wine or whiskey a day. So, that may be a little bit exaggeration. He was cool. He enjoyed our music. He was real. And he became a friend. The marquee at the civic center tells a story. Tomorrow morning at 5 30, the jimmy carter for campaign president officially gets underway. Jimmy Carter Campaign headquarters. May i help you, please . Hold on oh im coming hold on oh im coming bill walden, the owner of Capricorn Records announced governor carter was going to come down to the picnic and summer games. Something about you, mama sure gives me the blues your stockings and buckle shoes so many interesting famous people came down to that thing. Bill graham in the music business. Andy warhol came at one point. And lo and behold, he gets governor carter to come. As one republican to a democrat, i will help you as president , sir. Well, thats a good deal. I thank you. Phil came to the band and he said, listen, carters going to run. He needs some money. He needs support. Would you guys be willing to do some benefits for him . I think he is a real fan. He came here one night to a recording session. So, he befriended these performers, and his interest was genuine. And they could sense that. I think the vibe was, wow, heres this wonderful man whos been a great governor for the state of georgia, a southerner, and we had come through the nixon era, and we saw what happened with that. Isnt it time for somebody with great integrity and dignity to talk this office . Does he really have a chance . You know, honestly we thought the odds are a little low, but lets try you never know until you try, right . Governor, first of all, thank you very much for sparing the time. I know that you are very interested in rock music. Yes, i am. Im not only interested in it from what it signifies in our society, but also i enjoy it. Who do you most enjoy listening to . I have really gotten to know the ones who record in georgia better on a personal basis. They were Martin Tucker band and Charlie Daniels and allman brothers. I want to introduce to you my friends and your friends, the ones that are going to help me get elected along with you, the great almlman brothers. When we did that first concert for the president in providence, rhode island, i dont think we gave a lot of thought to the fact that this was a political fundraiser. Hey, it was a gig. We got fans, were going to play. My friends said that ive been such a fool i understand that i take this drown myself in sorrow and look at what youve done i still run sometimes i feel sometimes feel like im dying chip came to the concert. He was saying, nobody knew us. But, you know, the allman brothers us into the light. I was practically a nonentity but everybody knew the allman brothers, particularly once it came to their concerts. The young people said if the allman brothers like jimmy carter, we can vote for him. Anybody who would do a concert for jimmy carter, we would welcome with open arms. We had from hank snow to toots and the matells to the allmans, to john denver, the whole gu gambit. We raised a lot of money. The first concert, then allmans in providence and then Charlie Daniels at the fox. It gave carter a lot of credibility and a lot of money. Of course at that time it was very new that you could get the matching funds, whatever money that could be raised privately could be matched be the federal funds. We could get that money converted. Say the concert was on a saturday. We could use it to buy Television Ads with it in pennsylvania the next week. Sanctuary music kids laughing upbeat tempo sanctuary music its the final days of the wish list sales event sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first months payment. This is my body of proof. Proof of less joint pain and clearer skin. Proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis. With humira. Humira targets and blocks a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. 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You can ask your kin folks and neighbors to vote for me . Thank you. The people got to make the world go round got to make the world now there was a plan among my opponents, they named it a, b, c, anybody but carter. So, they would send their top person to a state to oppose me, and all the other candidates would support whoever came against me. There was the Establishment Democratic Party in washington and jimmy who was an outsider. More than an outsider, he was from the south. He was from georgia. There was something more to start out there. That time in the south, coming out of the south, was a death warrant to try to run for a national office. We were coming out of the watergate era and looking to be a country of integrity again. And certainly in the black communities out of which i came, he made an immediate connection because of that. While jerry brown to his entourage to western maryland, jimmy carter c