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This story is very, it's emotional to me. Because that's what I always wanted to do, was sing and play with Emmy at some point in life. And it never really, it never panned out. Played with Rodney and I played with Roseanne. And then she had a guitar player named Frank Reckhardt, and he was a great player. But Frank would always threaten to quit. And Emmy would call and say, Frank's going to quit again, will you come out? I said, yeah, just let me know, and he never quit. And then he never quit. And then I finally got my thing going, but never got to go be part of the hot band for real. And so, anyway, she was married to Paul Kennerly at the time, and they were going to record some demos of these great gospel songs, these old bluegrass-y kind of hymns. And she asked me to come play mandolin and sing, and Carl Jackson and me and Emory Gordy were the band. And I said, sure, man, that'll be fun. So I was so pumped I was going to get to sing with Emmy and play. And so they were just demos, and we were doing them for nothing, you know, just to try some stuff out. And so I had these sessions booked. And that morning I got a call from David Briggs, great piano player, and he said, man, I need you down here in an hour. I said, what's up? And he goes, well, I got something that you need to come and do. I said, well, what is it? And he said, it's a jingle, and they want you to sing lead on it. And this would have, you know, these are some lean days, you know, so this would have been a lot of money. I said, man, I can't do it. He said, no, no, no, no, no, you can't turn this down. I said, well, I promised Emmy I'd come and do some demos with her today. And he goes, you do not want to miss this. This is huge. And probably, for me, easily losing probably $75,000 at a time where I didn't have $75. But I honored my promise to Emmy and we did these demos. And Dave Loggins wound up singing Miller's Played the American Way. He's still crazy about me because I didn't do it. And so, and lo and behold, these demos, they turn into the Angel Band record. And it comes out, you know, back in the 80s. So I'm going, oh, this is great, you know, this all worked out, you know, the way it's supposed to. And I missed out on a big payday, but I got to sing with my pal, and it meant a lot to me. And then fast forward, what do we got, 15 years probably, Amy and I get married. We go on our honeymoon to Colorado, a house up in the mountains, and the night after our wedding night, we wake up in the morning and getting ready to start cooking breakfast and start the day. She reaches over and puts on that record. It's great. She goes, I love this record. I said, you do? She goes, yeah. I listen to this all the time. I go, that's me. She goes, it is? She didn't know it was me. So on my honeymoon, I got paid back. All those years later, it was priceless, you know, just the timing of it all. You never know, down the road, how things really are going to work out.