Jeff Austin

If I get the band wrong, I apologize.

But I'm 90% certain he substituted for Jeff Austin in the Undermountain String Band when Jeff's wife was having their first child.

Give or take the details.

But I know he substituted, I believe it was for Jeff Austin.

So if you're playing mandolin for Jeff Austin in their prime, probably really good.

In addition, Nick George, my chief consulting officer, friend of the show.

He is very familiar with Tony Camel.

I love that you challenge the difference, right? 'Cause, like, for me, you were talking about your gateway drug into music was Bela Fleck.

Mine was Jeff Austin.

Mm.

And so he was pushing the bounds in a different way-

... and then he was just in town.

You actually just got done playing the Jeff Austin tribute show, right?

Well yeah, what reminded me to holler at you was I saw you out there in the crowd.

I said, "You know what? I need to go on that guy's, I need to go on that guy's podcast.

Yeah, you were, you were looking bright that night though, for sure.

Buddy, the branding, it works.

We're, we're gonna get to that Jeff Austin show, but I want to let more people know about the John Stickley, right? And, and I think some people have seen you at like Artists at Large, or The Stickley Trio, or some of these ins and outs, but I don't think that people realize the depth of the history of how much you have influenced our scene in the last 20 years, right? Shay and I, we're not gonna talk about Brokeback Mountain, but we're gonna talk about-

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know a thousand songs and then just learn those on stage

yeah like uh that's like a song that's like a That's like a Jeff Austin lyric in some song.

I know a thousand songs.

I know it's in a Pachi line in this one song.

Yeah, and Cortland from Magoo.

Oh, yeah.

They did, like, a Jeff Austin thing.

They did a Jeff show.