Tennessee Waltz
Song by Pee Wee KingWikipedia
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Search complete. 4 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Tennessee Waltz".
Oct 17, 2026
Kirsten WarnerHOST
I'll just come in here and tell you about that track, which was, again, where soul meets country.
Kirsten WarnerHOST
So it's Otis Redding, the great soul singer, singing the classic country song, Tennessee Waltz.
Kirsten WarnerHOST
in 1966 on the complete and unbelievable The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul.
Kirsten WarnerHOST
And the writers were Pee Wee King and Red Stewart.
Karen Cutler DrecktrahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
"There's no such thing as The Kentucky Waltz," we'd tease him.
Karen Cutler DrecktrahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
"You must be thinking of the Tennessee Waltz." And then all of us would start singing at the top of our lungs, "I was waltzing with my darlin' to the Tennessee Waltz."
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
To the Tennessee Waltz.
Karen Cutler DrecktrahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
However, Dad kept insisting there was such a song as The Kentucky Waltz, but he couldn't remember the words or the melody.
Karen Cutler DrecktrahSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Since this was the early 1970s, before Google and the World Wide Web, Dad would ask various musicians, listen to country music radio stations, and look at every single song selection on jukeboxes, but never came across The Kentucky Waltz.
Kyle RidleyHOST
I was really happy to, to see there's love, there's politics, there's compassion, there's vulnerability.
Kyle RidleyHOST
Uh, and I was really happy to see near the end of the album you included that cover of Tennessee Waltz, which you performed in concert, uh, when I saw you last year, and I love that it made it onto the album.
Kyle RidleyHOST
You sang that at the Grand Ole Opry too, right?
Chris HousmanGUEST
I did.