'I will always be a fan! I had planned a show with Pee Wee King years ago, and he got under the weather and it never came together. I met him (by phone) through a mutual friend of ours, George Hanes, who since then has also passed away.

I am proud of the Country music industry most of the time, but at other times, I'm ashamed of how easily we have forgotten the people who paved the road ahead and who worked so long and hard to give Country music its place in American history.' (Homer Joy/OK)