You received an exceptional view into his world.
Serious pickin’ right there
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.