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And, uh, he was just one of the greatest guys that anybody could ever meet.

And, uh, he did so much for p- promotion of bluegrass, but one thing that he did that people don't realize is that he gave us musicians in locations like IBMA and SPIGMA every year, he gave us a place where we could go hang out, jam, not be bothered.

Mm-hmm.

You know? Yeah.

And so you may see Bluegrass Festival or Bluegrass Musician wins awards or you may see it on television.

I don't even know if they... televise IBMA or Spigma or anything like that.

But if you didn't know someone that knew bluegrass music or was invited, it was just kind of like this underground of people.

And now that I'm trying to like dive back into the bluegrass world and I'm what I'm doing on social media and what I'm doing on Tik TOK, I don't know if the algorithm is now showing me other people's TikToks that's increasing my bluegrass algorithm or if because it's been such of a change over the last year and a half for people to have seen what's going on on social media with bluegrass that now everybody else is doing it.

I don't know.

And it wasn't too much longer after that, I saw him at Spigma, this big bluegrass convention in town here.

And I said, how's the band going? He said, well, it's not.

I'm the only one left in the band, and I'm not the band leader.

They are your fun Louisiana boys, you know.

And they are four guys that got together on a whim, entered a contest at the Spigma in Tennessee, which is a big bluegrass convention.

And they won, I think it was like third place.

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