Oh, I had a back door pass to just about everyone at the ampitheatre when I was that age - Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, you name them. The funniest, sweetest, most down-to-earth country stars I ever met? Jim and Jon Hager. Not a pretentious bone in either’s body. And they’d revert to the grabasstic 13-year-old I was whenever I was in the room. They were as corny a pair of stuffed bib overalls in person as they were on TV. The genuine article.
“Oh, I had a back door pass to just about everyone at the ampitheatre when I was that age - Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, you name them. The funniest, sweetest, most down-to-earth country stars I ever met? Jim and Jon Hager. Not a pretentious bone in either’s body. And they’d revert to the grabasstic 13-year-old I was whenever I was in the room. They were as corny a pair of stuffed bib overalls in person as they were on TV. The genuine article.”
I had a trio that backed Jim & Jon on some rodeo gigs (they were the “halftime” entertainment). They were great guys, although they were a bit more worldly than they would have let on to a 13 year-old :)