EP 456: Lee Newton, Georgette Jones & Heidi Parton Talk about Their Rendition of "Silver Threads & Golden Needles & more!

well I was driving in my little Jeep one day, and I just had a thought in my head that I really wanted to do Silver Thread and Golden Needles.

I always put a cover on my album.

I've done Working Girl Blues, and I've done Homesick, the Atlanta Rhythm Section.

I put it on my Homesick album.

And I'm like, man, I just love Silver Thread and Golden Needles.

And I started thinking.

And I will.

And I was talking on the phone with my husband.

I'm like, man, it'd be so cool.

Georgette, I don't know her.

No, I've never met her.

I've never talked to her.

I said, buddy, that'd be really cool.

Wouldn't it have Georgette on? I said, I don't know who else, you know? And then like the week after that, I went to Nashville, had an interview with And lo and behold, Georgette comes walking out from her interview and we meet.

And so we, you know, exchange words.

She's like, and I told her, I'm like, I didn't want to completely freak her out, but I'm like, you know, hey, I've thought about this song, you know, I think it'd be awesome, you know? And she's like, well, you know, hit me up on Facebook, you know, message her.

So I sent it and then she gave me her phone number.

And then of course, then I reached out to Heidi and I was like, you know, Please don't think I'm crazy, which I just found out that, you know, there's some really cool stuff that ended up being on that side.

But she ended up writing me back and she was like, I'm in too.

You know, this is awesome.

So it was just really cool how the three of us come together.

And it was like instant connection.

especially when we got into group chat he was kind of instant friendship there but when we met for the first time in person um and got to perform on stage and our friendship was just you could just tell what being around each other it's almost like it was just instant yeah like old high

school girlfriends you know what i mean like yeah we're having a reunion but you know meeting for the first time but we just had that yeah we did an interview earlier and

he was like so how long have you been friends we're like this is only the second time we've ever hung out he's like wait what Y'all aren't lifelong besties.