Tell me a story about how Three Dog Night happened to pick up two of your dance songs, Spain, I've Never Been to Spain, and Door to the World.

This was done the old-fashioned way.

They were friends.

My dad was an Okie.

He was born in Oklahoma and spent a little time in the Navy, and then he made his way out to San Francisco in the early 1960s and was a big part of the folk coffeehouse circuit that was happening there.

And he wrote a song that became his first hit was for a band called the Kingston Trio in early 1960s.

It's a song called Greenback Dollar, which is I don't give a damn about a greenback dollar.

Red Barn Radio, Roots Music, Southern Style.

Okay.

Mainly for his headlining artist, a guy named Hank Snow, who was the biggest country artist on the planet in the 50s.

Sure.

And there was this young regional artist who was starting to get some traction.

And that artist manager reached out to my grandma.

I was like, hey, May, can you help get this young kid on some stages and maybe sneak him on some bills? And she's like, let me see what I can do.

You know, let's let's see.

And when he finally had an epiphany that, you know, he's looking around at your mom's success, or his mom's success, your grandmother, and he looked out in the driveway and saw that new Cadillac sitting there, and he thought,

There's a blue sky rain rolling over-

over-I could not see it coming.

It was Tuesday when she said, "I can't love you anymore." One chance is all I need.

Come on, one more, baby, please.

I will never forget you, no matter what I go through.

Because that one time you were the stars in my sky.

There's a blue sky rain rolling over the plain.

Do, do you feel that w- that way about your father?