Jim Ed Brown

The second year, there was an artist from Tee, South Dakota, Ray Kelly.

um he he got involved and and he brought some individuals up the next year uh she was a little actress that that did some acting out um in hollywood and and you know that that that was kind of fun then another year and another year went by and then all of a sudden i got introduced to jim ed brown uh out of Nashville.

And he agreed to come up and bring some of his friends along and do a concert to raise money.

They did it for free.

There was a cool old one.

If you haven't seen it, it's got one of the – craziest sets I think it's on the Jim Ed Brown show where there's like unicorns and all this crazy stuff behind Jerry Reed and he's wearing this loud shirt with a big collar on it and doing cool stuff he had an amazing

right hand didn't he

there's no there's no right hand still a lot of those thumb pickers There are a few.

And, uh, anyway, Tom had pitched a song.

I think it was to Jim Ed Brown.

I don't...

I, I, I think it was.

Then I'll be gone, and you can let some other fool sit down

Now there's a song that'll quench your thirst: Papa Top from Jim Ed Brown.

Now I had a choice of playing the version from Nat Stuckey in 1966, Jim Ed Brown's version from 1967, or Alan Jackson's version from 1999.

But I played the version from Jim Ed Brown because it hit number three in 1967.

Nat Stuckey actually wrote and recorded the song a year earlier, but it went nowhere.

The Alan Jackson version landed at number six in 1999.

And that was unusual for someone at his level of career.

Under the Influence felt like it was him stepping aside from the race for a minute, just going, "Hey, I get the race, but this is what I care about." The song Pop a Top, originally recorded by Jim Ed Brown in 1967, climbed to number six on the chart.

It Must Be Love, which was originally recorded by Don Williams in 1978, did go number one.

The album made it clear Alan wasn't about chasing the moment.