Ty Ty

[laughs] It sounded too highfalutin for a gospel singer.

And, uh, Big Chief was from a little town called Ty Ty, Georgia, and, uh, when Hovey started putting together the Statesmen in 1949, he was looking for singers that all were distinct within their own, you know, f- field, whether it be they bass singer, baritone.

He wanted distinctive voices that you could recognize to give the group a lot of personality.

Big Chief was one of the founding members of the Statesmen.

Dolly Parton had just finished singing something, and so he s- says something to her by name, and then he goes into Green Green Grass of Home.

Um, his version is very good, um, very excellently performed.

It's pretty, it's pretty typical of the Nashville sound of the mid-1960s, but I always like Porter's kind of mournful vocal qualities.

Um, yeah, he's got a good version of it.