Josh Turner - I Serve A Savior

January 11, 2025 | S25:E2

Homecoming Friends join Bill and Gloria in this nostalgia-filled video journey.

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Bill and Gloria Gaither: Precious Memories | Josh Turner - I Serve A Savior | January 11, 2025
  • Bill gaither: life is made up of moments...
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  • ... like turning the pages of a photograph album.
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  • Our memories preserve for us the relationships...
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  • ... and events that tell the stories of each of our lives.
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  • Happy, sad, joyful, and painful.
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  • The memories of our days make up the fabric...
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  • ... of who we are.
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  • (choir singing) ♪precious memories♪
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  • ♪how they linger♪
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  • ♪how they ever flood my soul♪
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  • Bill gaither: an unforgettable memory was made when dozens of friends...
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  • ... who had spent their lives in gospel music...
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  • ... gathered to sings some songs from their own...
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  • ... personal treasure of memories.
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  • For these folks, many precious memories...
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  • ... had begun around a piano somewhere.
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  • They're sharing songs about how their lives have been changed...
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  • ... by god's amazing grace.
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  • ♪precious scenes unfold♪
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  • Unfold♪
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  • ♪ in the lord, i say. ♪
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  • - when josh turner first stepped
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  • On the stage of the grand ole opry back in 2001,
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  • His life was about to change forever.
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  • On that december night,
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  • This young belmont university graduate
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  • Debuted a new song that he had written
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  • Called "long black train."
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  • The audience gave him a standing ovation
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  • Before the song was even finished.
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  • And for the encore, he was asked to sing it again.
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  • - ♪ on that long black train. ♪
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  • Bill: since that life-changing performance,
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  • Josh turner has become
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  • A multiplatinum country sensation.
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  • - ♪ early in the morning, talking it over, ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • Bill: his smooth, classically trained voice
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  • Has warmed the hearts of country music audiences
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  • For nearly two decades now.
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  • And he has consistently turned out hits
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  • That express his abiding affection
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  • For traditional country music.
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  • - ♪ i pray my way out of trouble. ♪
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  • Bill: but his influence doesn't stop there.
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  • This young man's faith has been paramount
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  • During every mile of his journey
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  • As an artist and a family man.
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  • Josh: ♪ morning by morning, ♪
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  • ♪ new mercies i see. ♪
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  • Bill: today we're going to get to know him
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  • A whole lot better.
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  • And he's going to share with us
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  • Some of the great old hymns that he grew up on.
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  • - ♪ praise the lord, i saw the light. ♪
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  • Bill: "rolling stone" magazine called him a country purist,
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  • And i'm grateful to call him my friend.
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  • This is bill gaither inviting you
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  • To enjoy some great music and wonderful conversation
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  • Featuring the one and the only josh turner.
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  • [upbeat country music]
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  • - ♪ swing low, sweet chariot, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • ♪ i looked over jordan and what did i see, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home? ♪
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  • ♪ a band of angels a-comin' after me, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • All: ♪ swing low, sweet chariot, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • [lively guitar solo]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • - ♪ i'm sometimes up and sometimes down ♪
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  • ♪ and sometimes i feel alone, ♪
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  • ♪ but i know my soul is heavenly bound. ♪
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  • ♪ one day, jesus gonna carry me home. ♪
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  • All: ♪ swing low, sweet chariot, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • [twangy guitar music]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • [lively piano music]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • - ♪ well, if you get there before i do, ♪
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  • ♪ just make yourself at home. ♪
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  • ♪ but tell all my friends i'm a-comin' too. ♪
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  • ♪ and tell 'em that it won't be long. ♪
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • All: ♪ swing low, sweet chariot, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • ♪ swing low, sweet chariot, ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me home. ♪
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  • ♪ comin' for to carry me... ♪
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  • - ♪ home. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • - josh, i can't tell you how much
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  • I've been looking forward to this day in time.
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  • But i--but i gotta be honest with you.
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  • I've been working this entire morning
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  • To try to get my voice down low enough
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  • That i can talk to josh turner.
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  • - yeah.
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  • [both laugh]
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  • I can still hear you in your normal register.
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  • - [laughs]
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  • - so you just be you. [laughs]
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  • - what a voice.
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  • You must have had some experience in the past
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  • Singing bass in a gospel quartet somewhere, right?
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  • - it was funny, 'cause i had always kind of
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  • Gravitated towards those lower voices.
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  • And so our church actually had an older men's quartet,
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  • And every time they would sing there at the church,
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  • I would just idolize that bass singer.
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  • You know, i just thought he was like a superhero to me.
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  • And i got to thinking one sunday, i was like,
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  • "man, you know, i could find a few other guys my age
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  • And we could start our own quartet,"
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  • And so that's what we did.
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  • We called ourselves the thankful hearts.
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  • And on some songs, you know, i actually sang the lead,
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  • But for most of the songs, i actually sang the bass part
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  • 'cause nobody else could hit those low notes.
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  • [both laugh]
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  • - man, you do have a low range.
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  • Can you remember some of the songs
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  • That you sang with that group?
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  • - yeah, we sang songs like "feelin' fine;"
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  • "anxious for nothing."
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  • You know, actually, "without him"
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  • Is actually one of the songs on this record.
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  • That's actually one of the songs that we would sing.
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  • But we'd sing all kinds of stuff.
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  • - we're in the little town where i was born.
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  • And i was telling you earlier,
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  • I haven't strayed very far from here.
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  • But you also grew up in a small little town.
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  • - i did.
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  • I never really called it a town
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  • Because it wasn't really a town.
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  • It was more of a-- just a farming community
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  • There in rural south carolina.
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  • Well, there's a lot of tobacco farmers
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  • In my, you know, lineage and--
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  • Bill: was your dad a farmer?
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  • Josh: no.
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  • He--he was, i guess, the first one in his family
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  • To actually go to college.
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  • And the philosophy or the idea, you know,
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  • In their minds was that, you know,
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  • They wanted to do better than their parents did
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  • And they wanted, you know, me and my siblings
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  • To do better than they did in life.
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  • And that's pretty much what's happened.
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  • Um, and it's because they made sacrifices
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  • And did what it took to get us to where we needed to be
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  • To chase our dreams and chase our passions.
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  • And they would push me to get out there,
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  • And i would sing at beauty pageants
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  • And private parties and--
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  • Anywhere anybody wanted a singer,
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  • They would push me to go out there.
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  • 'cause a lot of times, i didn't want to.
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  • I didn't think it was necessary.
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  • But they saw that i needed to hit the ground running
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  • And work hard at it and develop myself.
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  • - you know, one of the biggest questions that i get asked,
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  • Because i've done this for so long, is this.
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  • How do you get started?
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  • - [laughs]
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  • - so if you're listening out there,
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  • Josh just told you how to get started.
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  • - yeah. - anytime a door opens--
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  • - that's right.
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  • - i'll never forget one time talking with vince gill.
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  • I said, "why do you sing with anybody who asks you to sing?"
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  • You know what he said? - [laughs]
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  • - he said, "because for so long, nobody asked me."
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  • I thought, "what a great-- what a great answer."
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  • I was in the studio the day that you were
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  • Recording this song that you wrote.
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  • And i know this record is very important to you
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  • Because of--because of your church background.
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  • And i read your book.
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  • - oh, well, thank you.
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  • - and a very interesting book
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  • About how your faith has guided you
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  • In about everything that you have done:
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  • Picking a mate for life, picking a life's vocation,
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  • What kind of songs you're gonna sing.
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  • And so the hymns were obviously
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  • A very important part of where you came from.
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  • And they must have inspired you,
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  • But at the same time in inspiring you,
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  • You said, "i want to write a song myself
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  • That says exactly what i want to say."
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  • - when it came time for me to do this gospel record,
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  • I didn't want to just make it, you know,
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  • Chock-full of just the old standards
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  • That everybody's heard a million times.
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  • And so this one particular day--
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  • I had this title written down
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  • For a long time, "i serve a savior."
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  • I just thought it had a good ring to it.
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  • And... [sighs]
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  • We started writing it, and we were like,
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  • "we need to write, like, a modern-day hymn."
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  • And that's exactly what happened.
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  • And i even--i even managed
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  • To get a little recitation in there, so--
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  • - yeah. - [laughs]
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  • - well, it was a joy to be there that day.
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  • Gloria was with me,
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  • And to hear you do it,
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  • You do it very beautifully.
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  • - well, thank you. - let's listen to it.
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  • [soulful music]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • - ♪ god sent his only son ♪
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  • ♪ to save us. ♪
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  • ♪ he died upon a cross ♪
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  • ♪ for all our sin. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ i praise the precious name ♪
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  • ♪ of jesus. ♪
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  • ♪ he walked out of the grave ♪
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  • ♪ they laid him in. ♪
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  • ♪ i serve a savior. ♪
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  • ♪ it's what i was made for. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ his grace and love ♪
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  • ♪ i don't deserve. ♪
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  • ♪ i will be faithful, ♪
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  • ♪ humble, and grateful. ♪
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  • ♪ my life is greater ♪
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  • ♪ 'cause i serve a savior. ♪
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  • [soulful music continues]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ this world can be ♪
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  • ♪ so full of heartache. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ the pain it causes cuts ♪
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  • ♪ just like a knife. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • Oh, but the bible says the one
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  • Who loves his life will lose it
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  • And the one who hates his life in this world
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  • Will keep it for eternal life.
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  • If anyone serves me, he must follow me.
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  • Where i am, there my servant also will be.
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  • If anyone serves me, the father will honor him.
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ i serve a savior. ♪
  • 00:14:19.481 --> 00:14:25.154
  • ♪ it's what i was made for. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ his grace and love ♪
  • 00:14:33.062 --> 00:14:37.399
  • ♪ i don't deserve. ♪
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  • ♪ i will be faithful, ♪
  • 00:14:43.105 --> 00:14:48.944
  • ♪ humble, and grateful. ♪
  • 00:14:48.944 --> 00:14:55.451
  • ♪ my life is greater ♪
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  • ♪ 'cause i serve a savior. ♪
  • 00:15:01.023 --> 00:15:07.296
  • ♪ my life is greater ♪
  • 00:15:07.296 --> 00:15:13.135
  • ♪ 'cause i serve a savior. ♪
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  • [soulful music continues]
  • 00:15:20.976 --> 00:15:23.979
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:15:23.979 --> 00:15:33.088
  • [cheers and applause]
  • 00:15:33.155 --> 00:15:37.459
  • - ♪ great is your faithfulness, ♪
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  • ♪ o god, my father! ♪
  • 00:16:52.901 --> 00:16:56.905
  • ♪ there is no shadow ♪
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  • ♪ of turning with thee. ♪
  • 00:17:00.242 --> 00:17:04.813
  • ♪ you never change. ♪
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  • ♪ your compassions, they fail not. ♪
  • 00:17:07.916 --> 00:17:12.421
  • ♪ as you have been, ♪
  • 00:17:12.421 --> 00:17:15.757
  • ♪ you forever will be. ♪
  • 00:17:15.757 --> 00:17:20.195
  • ♪ great is your faithfulness. ♪
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  • ♪ great is your faithfulness. ♪
  • 00:17:24.766 --> 00:17:28.770
  • ♪ morning by morning, ♪
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  • ♪ new mercies i see. ♪
  • 00:17:32.107 --> 00:17:36.645
  • ♪ all i have needed, ♪
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  • ♪ your hands have provided. ♪
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  • ♪ great is your faithfulness, ♪
  • 00:17:44.786 --> 00:17:48.524
  • ♪ lord, unto me. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ summer and winter ♪
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  • ♪ and springtime and harvest; ♪
  • 00:18:02.137 --> 00:18:06.708
  • ♪ sun, moon, and stars ♪
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  • ♪ in their courses above ♪
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  • ♪ join with all nature ♪
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  • ♪ in manifold witness ♪
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  • ♪ to your great faithfulness, ♪
  • 00:18:22.491 --> 00:18:26.595
  • ♪ mercy, and love. ♪
  • 00:18:26.595 --> 00:18:30.599
  • ♪ great is your faithfulness. ♪
  • 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:34.937
  • ♪ great is your faithfulness. ♪
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  • ♪ morning by morning, ♪
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  • ♪ new mercies i see. ♪
  • 00:18:42.110 --> 00:18:46.114
  • ♪ all i have needed, ♪
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  • ♪ your hands have provided. ♪
  • 00:18:50.118 --> 00:18:54.957
  • ♪ great is your faithfulness, ♪
  • 00:18:54.957 --> 00:18:58.794
  • ♪ lord, unto me. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ pardon for sin ♪
  • 00:19:04.900 --> 00:19:07.803
  • ♪ and a peace that's enduring, ♪
  • 00:19:07.803 --> 00:19:12.641
  • ♪ your own dear presence ♪
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  • ♪ to cheer and to guide, ♪
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  • ♪ strength for today ♪
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  • ♪ and bright hope for tomorrow: ♪
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  • ♪ blessings all mine, ♪
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  • ♪ with 10,000 beside. ♪
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  • ♪ great is your faithfulness. ♪
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  • ♪ great is your faithfulness. ♪
  • 00:19:40.936 --> 00:19:44.773
  • ♪ morning by morning, ♪
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  • ♪ new mercies i see. ♪
  • 00:19:48.110 --> 00:19:52.447
  • ♪ all i have needed, ♪
  • 00:19:52.447 --> 00:19:56.285
  • ♪ your hands have provided. ♪
  • 00:19:56.285 --> 00:20:02.758
  • ♪ great is your faithfulness, ♪
  • 00:20:02.758 --> 00:20:06.695
  • ♪ lord, unto me. ♪
  • 00:20:06.695 --> 00:20:10.799
  • ♪ great is your faithfulness, ♪
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  • ♪ lord, unto me. ♪
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  • [solemn music continues]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
  • 00:20:39.261 --> 00:20:43.365
  • - okay, josh, you're looking at the biggest
  • 00:20:47.269 --> 00:20:51.106
  • Hank williams fan ever from the beginning,
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  • Mainly because of his writing.
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  • To me, i still think
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  • One of the greatest songs ever written is,
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  • "hear that lonesome whip-poor-will.
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  • It sounds too blue to fly."
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  • - oh, yeah.
  • 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:05.887
  • - "the midnight train is whining low."
  • 00:21:05.887 --> 00:21:08.890
  • Both: "i'm so lonesome, i could cry."
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  • - [laughs]
  • 00:21:11.059 --> 00:21:12.060
  • - he must have experienced
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  • Some depression in his life
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  • To write a song with that much passion.
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  • So back again to man stuff. - yeah.
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  • - it's great when real men say,
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  • "hey." - oh, yeah.
  • 00:21:23.572 --> 00:21:25.006
  • - "i got kicked in the stomach, and it hurt."
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  • [laughs] - oh, yeah. yeah.
  • 00:21:27.075 --> 00:21:29.010
  • - but he could express it, couldn't he?
  • 00:21:29.010 --> 00:21:30.579
  • - he didn't try to overcomplicate things.
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  • He kept things very simple. - very simple.
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  • - he got right to the heart of the matter,
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  • And that's the way it is with this song, "i saw the light."
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  • You know, he--he just basically talks about how,
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  • You know, he was going through a time
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  • Or at least the singer in the song
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  • Is going through a time
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  • Of, like, he's-- he's rejecting the truth.
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  • He's rejecting the lord;
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  • He's rejecting the goodness that he can bring,
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  • And he just talks about how he's going through
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  • This rough spot where he's pushed everything away,
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  • But finally after some time and going through this journey,
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  • He's--he finally gets it.
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  • He finally opens his eyes and sees what it's all about.
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  • And, um--but the interesting thing to me--
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  • I've always loved hank's version of this song,
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  • But every version since then, to me, just sounds like,
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  • You know, some song that somebody would get a tambourine
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  • And jump around a campfire or something.
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  • You know, it's just some big happy song.
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  • But to me, when you read the lyrics,
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  • There's redemption in the song, but this guy's--
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  • He's gone through hell and back
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  • To try to--to try to get to where he is.
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  • - where he saw the light. - and so...
  • 00:22:40.982 --> 00:22:43.485
  • I was toiling over this song, trying to figure out
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  • How i was gonna go in and record this song.
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  • And so one night, i'm laying in bed,
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  • And it just--all of a sudden,
  • 00:22:53.695 --> 00:22:56.465
  • It's like i jumped out of bed and i grabbed my guitar
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  • And i turned my recorder on on my phone
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  • And start playing this version that you're about to hear.
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  • So i'm proud of this the way it came out,
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  • And, you know, i would like to think
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  • That hank would be proud of it too.
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  • [upbeat music]
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  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:23:16.551 --> 00:23:17.919
  • ♪ i wandered so aimless, life filled with sin. ♪
  • 00:23:17.919 --> 00:23:23.325
  • ♪ i wouldn't let my dear savior in. ♪
  • 00:23:23.325 --> 00:23:28.830
  • ♪ then jesus came like a stranger in the night. ♪
  • 00:23:28.830 --> 00:23:33.635
  • ♪ praise the lord, i saw the light. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ i saw the light. i saw the light. ♪
  • 00:23:42.944 --> 00:23:48.216
  • ♪ no more darkness; no more night. ♪
  • 00:23:48.216 --> 00:23:53.355
  • ♪ now i'm so happy, no sorrow in sight. ♪
  • 00:23:53.355 --> 00:23:58.527
  • ♪ praise the lord, i saw the light. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:07.702
  • ♪ just like a blind man, i wandered along; ♪
  • 00:24:07.702 --> 00:24:12.807
  • ♪ worries and fears i claimed for my own. ♪
  • 00:24:12.807 --> 00:24:18.013
  • ♪ then like the blind man that god gave back his sight, ♪
  • 00:24:18.013 --> 00:24:23.218
  • ♪ praise the lord, i saw the light. ♪
  • 00:24:23.218 --> 00:24:29.824
  • ♪ i saw the light. i saw the light. ♪
  • 00:24:29.824 --> 00:24:35.096
  • ♪ no more darkness; no more night. ♪
  • 00:24:35.096 --> 00:24:40.235
  • ♪ now i'm so happy, no sorrow in sight. ♪
  • 00:24:40.235 --> 00:24:45.407
  • ♪ praise the lord, i saw the light. ♪
  • 00:24:45.407 --> 00:24:51.513
  • [upbeat music]
  • 00:24:51.513 --> 00:24:54.516
  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ i was a fool to wander and stray. ♪
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  • ♪ strait is the gate and narrow's the way. ♪
  • 00:25:10.198 --> 00:25:15.537
  • ♪ now i have traded the wrong for the right. ♪
  • 00:25:15.537 --> 00:25:20.542
  • ♪ praise the lord, i saw the light. ♪
  • 00:25:20.542 --> 00:25:27.148
  • ♪ i saw the light. i saw the light. ♪
  • 00:25:27.148 --> 00:25:32.420
  • ♪ no more darkness; no more night. ♪
  • 00:25:32.420 --> 00:25:37.559
  • ♪ now i'm so happy, no sorrow in sight. ♪
  • 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:42.731
  • ♪ praise the lord, i saw the light. ♪
  • 00:25:42.731 --> 00:25:49.270
  • ♪ praise the lord, ♪
  • 00:25:49.270 --> 00:25:52.173
  • ♪ i saw the light. ♪
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  • - one, two, three.
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  • [upbeat music resumes]
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  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:26:03.852 --> 00:26:13.628
  • - ♪ praise the lord, ♪
  • 00:26:17.198 --> 00:26:19.701
  • ♪ i saw the light. ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
  • 00:26:26.608 --> 00:26:30.779
  • - ♪ without him, i could do nothing. ♪
  • 00:27:43.184 --> 00:27:51.860
  • ♪ without him, i'd surely fail. ♪
  • 00:27:51.860 --> 00:28:00.769
  • ♪ without him, i would be drifting ♪
  • 00:28:00.769 --> 00:28:09.711
  • ♪ like a ship without a sail. ♪
  • 00:28:09.711 --> 00:28:19.220
  • ♪ jesus. ♪
  • 00:28:19.220 --> 00:28:23.057
  • ♪ oh, jesus. ♪
  • 00:28:23.057 --> 00:28:27.595
  • ♪ do you know him today? ♪
  • 00:28:27.595 --> 00:28:31.900
  • ♪ do not turn him away. ♪
  • 00:28:31.900 --> 00:28:36.437
  • ♪ oh, jesus. ♪
  • 00:28:36.437 --> 00:28:40.742
  • ♪ oh, jesus. ♪
  • 00:28:40.742 --> 00:28:45.146
  • ♪ without him, how lost i would be. ♪
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  • [solemn music continues]
  • 00:28:53.188 --> 00:28:56.191
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:28:56.191 --> 00:29:03.298
  • ♪ without him, i would be dying. ♪
  • 00:29:03.298 --> 00:29:11.873
  • ♪ without him, i'd be enslaved. ♪
  • 00:29:11.873 --> 00:29:20.715
  • ♪ without him, life would be hopeless. ♪
  • 00:29:20.715 --> 00:29:29.490
  • ♪ but with jesus, thank god i'm saved. ♪
  • 00:29:29.490 --> 00:29:39.334
  • ♪ jesus. ♪
  • 00:29:39.334 --> 00:29:43.104
  • ♪ oh, jesus. ♪
  • 00:29:43.104 --> 00:29:47.508
  • ♪ do you know him today? ♪
  • 00:29:47.508 --> 00:29:51.679
  • ♪ do not turn him away. ♪
  • 00:29:51.679 --> 00:29:56.517
  • ♪ oh, jesus. ♪
  • 00:29:56.517 --> 00:30:00.688
  • ♪ oh, jesus. ♪
  • 00:30:00.688 --> 00:30:05.526
  • ♪ without him, ♪
  • 00:30:05.526 --> 00:30:07.862
  • ♪ how lost i would be. ♪
  • 00:30:07.862 --> 00:30:13.868
  • ♪ without him, ♪
  • 00:30:13.868 --> 00:30:16.871
  • ♪ how lost i would be. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
  • 00:30:32.220 --> 00:30:35.223
  • - josh, is it true that you sang this song,
  • 00:30:35.223 --> 00:30:39.360
  • The "long black train," on the opry?
  • 00:30:39.360 --> 00:30:43.031
  • Did you sing it before you got--
  • 00:30:43.031 --> 00:30:45.099
  • Before it was on a record, or had you recorded it?
  • 00:30:45.099 --> 00:30:47.769
  • - i hadn't even recorded it yet.
  • 00:30:47.769 --> 00:30:49.470
  • - and you sang-- [laughs]
  • 00:30:49.470 --> 00:30:50.772
  • Now, that is very seldom done.
  • 00:30:50.772 --> 00:30:53.041
  • So you told the folks,
  • 00:30:53.041 --> 00:30:54.275
  • "hey, folks, here is a new song," right?
  • 00:30:54.275 --> 00:30:56.344
  • - yeah, it--
  • 00:30:56.344 --> 00:30:58.079
  • Well, and it took me a lot of years to understand
  • 00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:03.084
  • The significance of my opry debut.
  • 00:31:03.084 --> 00:31:06.054
  • 2001 was an incredible year for me.
  • 00:31:06.054 --> 00:31:11.125
  • I started dating my wife in early 2001.
  • 00:31:11.125 --> 00:31:16.230
  • I graduated from belmont in august, i think, of '01.
  • 00:31:16.230 --> 00:31:21.970
  • And then i signed my publishing deal in october of '01.
  • 00:31:21.970 --> 00:31:25.773
  • I signed my record deal in november of '01.
  • 00:31:25.773 --> 00:31:28.509
  • And then i made my opry debut in december of '01.
  • 00:31:28.509 --> 00:31:32.747
  • And so here i was--
  • 00:31:32.747 --> 00:31:36.784
  • I basically had to beg my way onto the opry stage.
  • 00:31:36.784 --> 00:31:40.288
  • My manager at the time, jody williams, and i
  • 00:31:40.288 --> 00:31:42.423
  • Had gone to pete fisher,
  • 00:31:42.423 --> 00:31:43.491
  • The general manager of the opry,
  • 00:31:43.491 --> 00:31:44.625
  • And basically begged him for me to go on.
  • 00:31:44.625 --> 00:31:47.328
  • And then he finally relented. he was like, "you know what?
  • 00:31:47.328 --> 00:31:49.530
  • "i'll just let you go on late
  • 00:31:49.530 --> 00:31:51.466
  • "one friday night before christmas, you know,
  • 00:31:51.466 --> 00:31:53.968
  • "and sing one song with the staff band
  • 00:31:53.968 --> 00:31:56.671
  • Late in the show."
  • 00:31:56.671 --> 00:31:57.672
  • - throw you to the wolves.
  • 00:31:57.672 --> 00:31:58.773
  • - yeah, and so i was like,
  • 00:31:58.773 --> 00:32:00.074
  • "hey, that's fine by me."
  • 00:32:00.074 --> 00:32:01.876
  • And so the only song that we had rehearsed
  • 00:32:01.876 --> 00:32:06.481
  • With the staff band was "long black train."
  • 00:32:06.481 --> 00:32:08.916
  • I had given them a chart of a demo that i had done of it.
  • 00:32:08.916 --> 00:32:12.286
  • It wasn't even the record version.
  • 00:32:12.286 --> 00:32:13.588
  • I hadn't even recorded my record yet.
  • 00:32:13.588 --> 00:32:15.723
  • I didn't have, you know, a video.
  • 00:32:15.723 --> 00:32:19.227
  • Nobody knew who josh turner was.
  • 00:32:19.227 --> 00:32:21.029
  • And that's kind of what i'm getting at
  • 00:32:21.029 --> 00:32:22.663
  • Is that i go out and i sing this song,
  • 00:32:22.663 --> 00:32:26.034
  • And about halfway through the first pass of the song...
  • 00:32:26.034 --> 00:32:29.037
  • - they start applauding.
  • 00:32:29.037 --> 00:32:30.038
  • - people start standing up.
  • 00:32:30.038 --> 00:32:31.339
  • People start clapping and stomping the floor.
  • 00:32:31.339 --> 00:32:33.341
  • And i mean, by the end of the song,
  • 00:32:33.341 --> 00:32:34.842
  • The whole crowd was on their feet.
  • 00:32:34.842 --> 00:32:36.310
  • They're chanting.
  • 00:32:36.310 --> 00:32:37.311
  • They're clapping and everything.
  • 00:32:37.311 --> 00:32:38.846
  • And i leave. i wave good-bye, you know.
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  • And i'm going back to my dressing room.
  • 00:32:41.282 --> 00:32:43.084
  • - and they call you back.
  • 00:32:43.084 --> 00:32:44.485
  • - and i had already started my way up the steps,
  • 00:32:44.485 --> 00:32:46.721
  • And they're--
  • 00:32:46.721 --> 00:32:48.356
  • You know, people are calling for me.
  • 00:32:48.356 --> 00:32:50.058
  • They're, "bill wants you back out onstage."
  • 00:32:50.058 --> 00:32:51.592
  • And i'm like, "for what?
  • 00:32:51.592 --> 00:32:52.760
  • I don't have any more songs to play."
  • 00:32:52.760 --> 00:32:53.928
  • [laughter]
  • 00:32:53.928 --> 00:32:54.929
  • And so... - you sang it again.
  • 00:32:54.929 --> 00:32:56.230
  • - i started the song over again from the top,
  • 00:32:56.230 --> 00:32:59.033
  • And somewhere in that first or second verse,
  • 00:32:59.033 --> 00:33:02.737
  • I just completely, like--
  • 00:33:02.737 --> 00:33:04.806
  • I got overwhelmed with emotion,
  • 00:33:04.806 --> 00:33:06.707
  • And i just-- i got choked up.
  • 00:33:06.707 --> 00:33:08.709
  • And i lost my place.
  • 00:33:08.709 --> 00:33:10.311
  • I started singing all over the place.
  • 00:33:10.311 --> 00:33:12.447
  • The band's doing their darndest
  • 00:33:12.447 --> 00:33:14.082
  • To try to follow me and figure out where i'm at.
  • 00:33:14.082 --> 00:33:17.485
  • Well, that became a historic night
  • 00:33:17.485 --> 00:33:19.921
  • Because nobody had ever seen anything like that
  • 00:33:19.921 --> 00:33:22.623
  • Since hank williams had made his debut, where he--
  • 00:33:22.623 --> 00:33:26.627
  • And that's all i could think about that night was,
  • 00:33:26.627 --> 00:33:28.629
  • "i'm standing in the same spot
  • 00:33:28.629 --> 00:33:29.831
  • That hank stood during his debut."
  • 00:33:29.831 --> 00:33:31.566
  • He got six or seven encores from "lovesick blues."
  • 00:33:31.566 --> 00:33:33.868
  • I'm looking up at the same balcony
  • 00:33:33.868 --> 00:33:35.303
  • And standing on the same stage and everything.
  • 00:33:35.303 --> 00:33:37.371
  • It was--i was overcome with the gravity of this.
  • 00:33:37.371 --> 00:33:40.741
  • - so were you in the ryman or the new--
  • 00:33:40.741 --> 00:33:42.076
  • - i was at the ryman, yeah.
  • 00:33:42.076 --> 00:33:43.444
  • - that's the place, yeah.
  • 00:33:43.444 --> 00:33:44.946
  • - and so...
  • 00:33:44.946 --> 00:33:46.314
  • That's when it finally dawned on me, like,
  • 00:33:46.314 --> 00:33:47.949
  • Why it was so genuine and so emotional that night
  • 00:33:47.949 --> 00:33:53.421
  • Was because it was strictly because of the song
  • 00:33:53.421 --> 00:33:59.293
  • And just my delivery of it.
  • 00:33:59.293 --> 00:34:00.962
  • Like, that's what just got people going that night.
  • 00:34:00.962 --> 00:34:04.932
  • - you know what we call that kind of thing in our world,
  • 00:34:04.932 --> 00:34:07.268
  • And i think you'd agree?
  • 00:34:07.268 --> 00:34:08.769
  • A god thing.
  • 00:34:08.769 --> 00:34:09.804
  • - yeah. it was.
  • 00:34:09.804 --> 00:34:11.339
  • It was. - you know, i mean,
  • 00:34:11.339 --> 00:34:13.174
  • How else do you explain that?
  • 00:34:13.174 --> 00:34:14.909
  • - that was just one of many things
  • 00:34:14.909 --> 00:34:17.078
  • That, you know, just reminded me
  • 00:34:17.078 --> 00:34:19.046
  • That he's got his hand on me and he's looking out for me
  • 00:34:19.046 --> 00:34:21.415
  • And he's helping me along the way,
  • 00:34:21.415 --> 00:34:24.585
  • Because lord knows i've faced a lot of challenges, you know,
  • 00:34:24.585 --> 00:34:27.688
  • In the business that i'm in, so...
  • 00:34:27.688 --> 00:34:30.024
  • [upbeat music]
  • 00:34:30.024 --> 00:34:33.027
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:34:33.027 --> 00:34:34.996
  • ♪ there's a long black train ♪
  • 00:34:34.996 --> 00:34:38.666
  • ♪ comin' down the line, ♪
  • 00:34:38.666 --> 00:34:41.369
  • ♪ feedin' off the souls ♪
  • 00:34:41.369 --> 00:34:43.738
  • ♪ that are lost and cryin'. ♪
  • 00:34:43.738 --> 00:34:47.341
  • ♪ rails of sin, ♪
  • 00:34:47.341 --> 00:34:49.477
  • ♪ only evil remains. ♪
  • 00:34:49.477 --> 00:34:52.813
  • ♪ watch out, brother, ♪
  • 00:34:52.813 --> 00:34:55.149
  • ♪ for that long black train. ♪
  • 00:34:55.149 --> 00:34:59.453
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:34:59.453 --> 00:35:02.790
  • ♪ look to the heavens. ♪
  • 00:35:02.790 --> 00:35:05.193
  • ♪ you can look to the skies. ♪
  • 00:35:05.193 --> 00:35:08.663
  • ♪ you can find redemption ♪
  • 00:35:08.663 --> 00:35:10.898
  • ♪ starin' back into your eyes. ♪
  • 00:35:10.898 --> 00:35:14.435
  • ♪ there is protection ♪
  • 00:35:14.435 --> 00:35:16.470
  • ♪ and there's peace the same ♪
  • 00:35:16.470 --> 00:35:20.107
  • ♪ burnin' your ticket ♪
  • 00:35:20.107 --> 00:35:22.476
  • ♪ for that long black train. ♪
  • 00:35:22.476 --> 00:35:26.614
  • ♪ 'cause there's victory ♪
  • 00:35:26.614 --> 00:35:29.450
  • ♪ in the lord, i say. ♪
  • 00:35:29.450 --> 00:35:32.954
  • ♪ victory in the lord. ♪
  • 00:35:32.954 --> 00:35:38.759
  • ♪ cling to the father ♪
  • 00:35:38.759 --> 00:35:40.828
  • ♪ and his holy name ♪
  • 00:35:40.828 --> 00:35:44.298
  • ♪ and don't go ridin' ♪
  • 00:35:44.298 --> 00:35:46.567
  • ♪ on that long black train. ♪
  • 00:35:46.567 --> 00:35:50.838
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:35:50.838 --> 00:35:53.708
  • ♪ there's an engineer ♪
  • 00:35:53.708 --> 00:35:56.477
  • ♪ on that long black train ♪
  • 00:35:56.477 --> 00:36:00.147
  • ♪ makin' you wonder ♪
  • 00:36:00.147 --> 00:36:02.350
  • ♪ if the ride is worth the pain. ♪
  • 00:36:02.350 --> 00:36:05.553
  • ♪ he's just a-waitin' ♪
  • 00:36:05.553 --> 00:36:07.922
  • ♪ on your heart to say, ♪
  • 00:36:07.922 --> 00:36:11.592
  • ♪ "let me ride ♪
  • 00:36:11.592 --> 00:36:13.594
  • ♪ on that long black train." ♪
  • 00:36:13.594 --> 00:36:17.365
  • ♪ but you know there's victory ♪
  • 00:36:17.365 --> 00:36:20.935
  • ♪ in the lord, i say. ♪
  • 00:36:20.935 --> 00:36:24.639
  • ♪ victory in the lord. ♪
  • 00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:30.177
  • ♪ cling to the father ♪
  • 00:36:30.177 --> 00:36:32.313
  • ♪ and his holy name. ♪
  • 00:36:32.313 --> 00:36:35.916
  • ♪ don't go ridin' ♪
  • 00:36:35.916 --> 00:36:38.085
  • ♪ on that long black train. ♪
  • 00:36:38.085 --> 00:36:41.455
  • ♪ yeah-ee. ♪
  • 00:36:41.455 --> 00:36:46.460
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:36:46.460 --> 00:37:00.641
  • ♪ well, i can hear the whistle ♪
  • 00:37:04.445 --> 00:37:06.580
  • ♪ from a mile away. ♪
  • 00:37:06.580 --> 00:37:09.717
  • ♪ it sounds so good, ♪
  • 00:37:09.717 --> 00:37:12.486
  • ♪ but i must stay away. ♪
  • 00:37:12.486 --> 00:37:15.489
  • ♪ that train is a beauty, ♪
  • 00:37:15.489 --> 00:37:17.992
  • ♪ makin' everybody stare, ♪
  • 00:37:17.992 --> 00:37:21.128
  • ♪ but its only destination ♪
  • 00:37:21.128 --> 00:37:23.764
  • ♪ is the middle of nowhere. ♪
  • 00:37:23.764 --> 00:37:27.735
  • ♪ and you know there's victory ♪
  • 00:37:27.735 --> 00:37:30.771
  • ♪ in the lord, i say. ♪
  • 00:37:30.771 --> 00:37:34.375
  • ♪ victory in the lord. ♪
  • 00:37:34.375 --> 00:37:40.214
  • ♪ cling to the father ♪
  • 00:37:40.214 --> 00:37:42.350
  • ♪ and his holy name ♪
  • 00:37:42.350 --> 00:37:45.853
  • ♪ and don't go ridin' ♪
  • 00:37:45.853 --> 00:37:48.055
  • ♪ on that long black train. ♪
  • 00:37:48.055 --> 00:37:52.159
  • ♪ i said cling to the father ♪
  • 00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:55.162
  • ♪ and his holy name ♪
  • 00:37:55.162 --> 00:37:58.432
  • ♪ and don't go ridin' ♪
  • 00:37:58.432 --> 00:38:00.835
  • ♪ on that black train. ♪
  • 00:38:00.835 --> 00:38:05.339
  • ♪ yeah, watch out, brother, ♪
  • 00:38:05.339 --> 00:38:07.875
  • ♪ for that long black train. ♪
  • 00:38:07.875 --> 00:38:12.613
  • ♪ that devil's a-drivin' ♪
  • 00:38:12.613 --> 00:38:16.350
  • ♪ that long black ♪
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  • ♪ train. ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
  • 00:38:30.364 --> 00:38:36.437
  • Of the last century.
  • 00:39:39.433 --> 00:39:42.736
  • In the churches today, we talk a lot about
  • 00:39:42.736 --> 00:39:44.738
  • Praise and worship.
  • 00:39:44.738 --> 00:39:47.041
  • But the greatest one was this one.
  • 00:39:47.041 --> 00:39:49.343
  • "and when i think that god, his son not sparing,
  • 00:39:49.343 --> 00:39:53.914
  • "sent him to die, i scarce can take it in
  • 00:39:53.914 --> 00:39:57.184
  • "that on the cross, my burdens gladly bearing,
  • 00:39:57.184 --> 00:40:00.721
  • He bled and died to take away my sin."
  • 00:40:00.721 --> 00:40:03.958
  • What a great, great song.
  • 00:40:03.958 --> 00:40:05.292
  • - see, you're so good at that.
  • 00:40:05.292 --> 00:40:06.427
  • 'cause i can't recite lyrics.
  • 00:40:06.427 --> 00:40:08.195
  • I have to sing them because i can't think of what they are
  • 00:40:08.195 --> 00:40:10.397
  • If i just talk.
  • 00:40:10.397 --> 00:40:12.500
  • But "how great thou art" obviously is a song
  • 00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:16.036
  • That most everybody knows,
  • 00:40:16.036 --> 00:40:17.271
  • Whether you're a christian or not,
  • 00:40:17.271 --> 00:40:18.873
  • And this is one of those songs that i had considered--
  • 00:40:18.873 --> 00:40:24.545
  • And i did change a few lyrics within the song,
  • 00:40:24.545 --> 00:40:28.215
  • But it was just literally one or two or three.
  • 00:40:28.215 --> 00:40:32.520
  • And i even toyed with the idea
  • 00:40:32.520 --> 00:40:35.589
  • Of changing it to "how great you are"
  • 00:40:35.589 --> 00:40:38.158
  • Because that's how we would say it nowadays.
  • 00:40:38.158 --> 00:40:40.561
  • - yeah, yeah.
  • 00:40:40.561 --> 00:40:41.762
  • - but i was like, "i can't change this."
  • 00:40:41.762 --> 00:40:43.364
  • - you probably shouldn't have done that.
  • 00:40:43.364 --> 00:40:45.766
  • Wise, wise decision. [laughs] - yeah, yeah.
  • 00:40:45.766 --> 00:40:48.035
  • My life would be in danger if i did that.
  • 00:40:48.035 --> 00:40:50.104
  • There's just some things you don't mess with,
  • 00:40:50.104 --> 00:40:52.473
  • And this is one of them, so...
  • 00:40:52.473 --> 00:40:54.208
  • I left it as is.
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  • [soft music]
  • 00:40:56.243 --> 00:40:59.246
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:40:59.246 --> 00:41:02.316
  • ♪ o lord, my god, ♪
  • 00:41:02.316 --> 00:41:07.888
  • ♪ when i, in awesome wonder, ♪
  • 00:41:07.888 --> 00:41:13.727
  • ♪ consider all the worlds ♪
  • 00:41:13.727 --> 00:41:19.166
  • ♪ your hands have made, ♪
  • 00:41:19.166 --> 00:41:24.538
  • ♪ i see the stars, ♪
  • 00:41:24.538 --> 00:41:30.044
  • ♪ i hear the rolling thunder, ♪
  • 00:41:30.044 --> 00:41:35.416
  • ♪ your power throughout ♪
  • 00:41:35.416 --> 00:41:39.687
  • ♪ the universe displayed, ♪
  • 00:41:39.687 --> 00:41:46.160
  • ♪ then sings my soul, ♪
  • 00:41:46.160 --> 00:41:50.130
  • ♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
  • 00:41:50.130 --> 00:41:57.071
  • ♪ "how great thou art. ♪
  • 00:41:57.071 --> 00:42:02.743
  • ♪ how great thou art." ♪
  • 00:42:02.743 --> 00:42:08.015
  • ♪ then sings my soul, ♪
  • 00:42:08.015 --> 00:42:12.019
  • ♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
  • 00:42:12.019 --> 00:42:19.026
  • ♪ "how great thou art. ♪
  • 00:42:19.026 --> 00:42:24.565
  • ♪ how great thou art." ♪
  • 00:42:24.565 --> 00:42:30.070
  • ♪ and when i think ♪
  • 00:42:30.070 --> 00:42:35.376
  • ♪ that god, his son not sparing, ♪
  • 00:42:35.376 --> 00:42:40.914
  • ♪ sent him to die, ♪
  • 00:42:40.914 --> 00:42:44.918
  • ♪ i scarce can take it in ♪
  • 00:42:44.918 --> 00:42:51.825
  • ♪ that on the cross... ♪
  • 00:42:51.825 --> 00:42:54.561
  • - ♪ there on the cross. ♪
  • 00:42:54.561 --> 00:42:57.398
  • - ♪ my burden gladly bearing, ♪
  • 00:42:57.398 --> 00:43:02.670
  • ♪ he bled and died ♪
  • 00:43:02.670 --> 00:43:06.807
  • ♪ to take away my sin. ♪
  • 00:43:06.807 --> 00:43:12.780
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:43:12.780 --> 00:43:16.450
  • ♪ when christ shall come ♪
  • 00:43:16.450 --> 00:43:21.822
  • ♪ with shouts of acclamation ♪
  • 00:43:21.822 --> 00:43:27.161
  • ♪ and take me home, ♪
  • 00:43:27.161 --> 00:43:31.432
  • ♪ what joy shall fill my heart. ♪
  • 00:43:31.432 --> 00:43:38.305
  • ♪ then i shall bow ♪
  • 00:43:38.305 --> 00:43:43.644
  • ♪ in humble adoration ♪
  • 00:43:43.644 --> 00:43:49.149
  • ♪ and there proclaim, ♪
  • 00:43:49.149 --> 00:43:53.320
  • ♪ "my god, how great thou art." ♪
  • 00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:59.727
  • ♪ then sings my soul, ♪
  • 00:43:59.727 --> 00:44:03.864
  • ♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
  • 00:44:03.864 --> 00:44:10.871
  • ♪ "how great thou art. ♪
  • 00:44:10.871 --> 00:44:16.410
  • ♪ how great thou art." ♪
  • 00:44:16.410 --> 00:44:21.582
  • ♪ then sings my soul, ♪
  • 00:44:21.582 --> 00:44:25.486
  • ♪ my savior, god, to thee, ♪
  • 00:44:25.486 --> 00:44:32.392
  • ♪ "how great thou art." ♪
  • 00:44:32.392 --> 00:44:35.496
  • - ♪ "how great thou art." ♪
  • 00:44:35.496 --> 00:44:38.298
  • - ♪ "how great thou art. ♪
  • 00:44:38.298 --> 00:44:43.670
  • ♪ "how great thou art. ♪
  • 00:44:43.670 --> 00:44:49.977
  • ♪ "how great ♪
  • 00:44:49.977 --> 00:44:52.880
  • ♪ thou art." ♪
  • 00:44:52.880 --> 00:45:01.555
  • ♪ ♪
  • 00:45:01.555 --> 00:45:05.359
  • [applause]
  • 00:45:05.359 --> 00:45:09.897
  • [mouthing words]
  • 00:45:09.963 --> 00:45:13.767
  • - josh, i have so much respect for country writers.
  • 00:45:13.834 --> 00:45:18.672
  • First of all, they are extremely creative and clever.
  • 00:45:18.672 --> 00:45:24.111
  • But i love what they do even on gospel subjects,
  • 00:45:24.111 --> 00:45:28.515
  • Because they can take more risks,
  • 00:45:28.515 --> 00:45:30.184
  • I guess, than gospel writers.
  • 00:45:30.184 --> 00:45:31.952
  • We have to make sure our "thee"s and "thou"s
  • 00:45:31.952 --> 00:45:34.254
  • And everything is correct.
  • 00:45:34.254 --> 00:45:35.589
  • It just seems like they look into another window
  • 00:45:35.589 --> 00:45:37.958
  • When they look at the gospel.
  • 00:45:37.958 --> 00:45:39.760
  • So i have so much respect for them.
  • 00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:42.830
  • But you are an interesting case here
  • 00:45:42.830 --> 00:45:45.666
  • Where you're not a gospel writer
  • 00:45:45.666 --> 00:45:48.068
  • Or you're not a gospel singer, as such,
  • 00:45:48.068 --> 00:45:50.904
  • But you are a christian person who sings country music.
  • 00:45:50.904 --> 00:45:55.475
  • I think it's fantastic.
  • 00:45:55.475 --> 00:45:56.777
  • - well, we country artists
  • 00:45:56.777 --> 00:45:58.579
  • Are allowed to be grammatically incorrect too,
  • 00:45:58.579 --> 00:46:00.380
  • So we have a lot more freedom.
  • 00:46:00.380 --> 00:46:03.417
  • Hence the song "me and god."
  • 00:46:03.417 --> 00:46:05.385
  • - [laughs]
  • 00:46:05.385 --> 00:46:06.553
  • - and, you know, but hey,
  • 00:46:06.553 --> 00:46:08.655
  • Don't let grammar get in the way of a good song, right?
  • 00:46:08.655 --> 00:46:10.891
  • - a good song, never.
  • 00:46:10.891 --> 00:46:12.392
  • - so i've had a lot of people ask me,
  • 00:46:12.392 --> 00:46:14.695
  • "why didn't you get into gospel music?
  • 00:46:14.695 --> 00:46:16.029
  • "why didn't you become
  • 00:46:16.029 --> 00:46:17.130
  • A christian contemporary singer?"
  • 00:46:17.130 --> 00:46:18.932
  • Or what have you.
  • 00:46:18.932 --> 00:46:20.901
  • And the answer is pretty simple.
  • 00:46:20.901 --> 00:46:22.736
  • I tell them that god called me to be a country singer.
  • 00:46:22.736 --> 00:46:24.872
  • - absolutely.
  • 00:46:24.872 --> 00:46:25.973
  • - and that's what--
  • 00:46:25.973 --> 00:46:27.374
  • That's where my heart's always been.
  • 00:46:27.374 --> 00:46:29.343
  • That's what i've always loved.
  • 00:46:29.343 --> 00:46:31.945
  • I've been a student of country music
  • 00:46:31.945 --> 00:46:34.014
  • From a very early age.
  • 00:46:34.014 --> 00:46:36.717
  • But i grew up in a christian home.
  • 00:46:36.717 --> 00:46:38.151
  • I grew up going to church. i grew up reading the bible.
  • 00:46:38.151 --> 00:46:40.120
  • And i've had a lot of spiritual experiences in my life
  • 00:46:40.120 --> 00:46:43.023
  • That have kind of defined me and my life and my path,
  • 00:46:43.023 --> 00:46:47.661
  • You know, that i've been on.
  • 00:46:47.661 --> 00:46:49.463
  • When it comes to the way i kind of express myself
  • 00:46:49.463 --> 00:46:54.001
  • And the way i tell people about who i am
  • 00:46:54.001 --> 00:46:56.570
  • And what i'm about, what my beliefs are,
  • 00:46:56.570 --> 00:46:58.572
  • I try to just be as real about it as i possibly can
  • 00:46:58.572 --> 00:47:02.576
  • Because i feel like nonbelievers and non-christians
  • 00:47:02.576 --> 00:47:06.713
  • Are looking for that.
  • 00:47:06.713 --> 00:47:08.081
  • They don't want some, you know,
  • 00:47:08.081 --> 00:47:10.984
  • Holy roller kind of thing, you know.
  • 00:47:10.984 --> 00:47:13.453
  • They don't want to be preached to.
  • 00:47:13.453 --> 00:47:15.022
  • You know, they want things in simple terms,
  • 00:47:15.022 --> 00:47:17.591
  • And they want things broken down
  • 00:47:17.591 --> 00:47:19.159
  • To where they can understand it.
  • 00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:21.295
  • ♪ praise god, ♪
  • 00:47:21.295 --> 00:47:22.896
  • ♪ from whom all blessings flow. ♪
  • 00:47:22.896 --> 00:47:28.769
  • ♪ praise him, ♪
  • 00:47:28.769 --> 00:47:30.404
  • ♪ all creatures here below. ♪
  • 00:47:30.404 --> 00:47:36.076
  • ♪ praise him above, ♪
  • 00:47:36.076 --> 00:47:39.079
  • ♪ ye heavenly host. ♪
  • 00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:44.051
  • ♪ praise father, son, ♪
  • 00:47:44.051 --> 00:47:47.220
  • ♪ and holy ghost. ♪
  • 00:47:47.220 --> 00:47:52.626
  • ♪ amen. ♪
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  • Man: one, two, three.
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  • [upbeat music]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • - ♪ there ain't nothing that can't be done ♪
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  • ♪ by me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ ain't nobody gonna come between ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ one day, we'll live together ♪
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  • ♪ where the angels trod, ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ early in the morning, talking it over, ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ late at night, talking it over, ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ you could say we're like two peas in a pod, ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ he's my father. ♪
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  • ♪ he's my friend. ♪
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  • ♪ the beginning ♪
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  • ♪ and the end. ♪
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  • ♪ he rules the world ♪
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  • ♪ with the staff and the rod. ♪
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  • ♪ we're a team, ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ i am weak, and thou art strong. ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ he forgives me when i'm wrong. ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ he's the one i lean on ♪
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  • ♪ when life gets hard. ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ he's my father. ♪
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  • ♪ he's my friend. ♪
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  • ♪ the beginning ♪
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  • ♪ and the end. ♪
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  • ♪ he rules the world ♪
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  • ♪ with the staff and the rod. ♪
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  • ♪ we're a team, ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ he rules the world ♪
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  • ♪ with the staff and the rod. ♪
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  • ♪ we're a team, ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ we're a team, ♪
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  • ♪ me and god. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • [gentle music]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ amazing grace, ♪
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  • ♪ how sweet the sound ♪
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  • ♪ that saved a wretch ♪
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  • ♪ like me. ♪
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  • ♪ i once was lost ♪
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  • ♪ but now am found, ♪
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  • ♪ was blind, ♪
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  • ♪ but now i see. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ 'twas grace that taught ♪
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  • ♪ my heart to fear ♪
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  • ♪ and grace my fears ♪
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  • ♪ relieved. ♪
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  • ♪ how precious did ♪
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  • ♪ that grace appear ♪
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  • ♪ the hour i first ♪
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  • ♪ believed. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ through many dangers, ♪
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  • ♪ toils, and snares, ♪
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  • ♪ i have ♪
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  • ♪ already come. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ his grace has kept ♪
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  • ♪ me safe thus far, ♪
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  • ♪ and grace will ♪
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  • ♪ lead me home. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ the lord has promised ♪
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  • ♪ good to me. ♪
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  • ♪ his word my hope ♪
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  • ♪ secures. ♪
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  • ♪ he will my shield ♪
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  • ♪ and portion be ♪
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  • ♪ as long as life ♪
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  • ♪ endures. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • ♪ when we've been there ♪
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  • ♪ 10,000 years, ♪
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  • ♪ bright shining ♪
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  • ♪ as the sun, ♪
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  • ♪ we've no less days ♪
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  • ♪ to sing god's praise ♪
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  • ♪ than when ♪
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  • ♪ we first begun. ♪
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • Thank you.
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  • [reverent music]
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  • ♪ ♪
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  • [cheers and applause]
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  • S memories."
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  • Be sure to watch program as these legendary gospel artists...
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  • ... share more of your favorite songs.
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  • ♪in the stillness, of the midnight♪
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