[Sans-Culotte]

I saw Roy Clark live at the Grand Ole Opry around 2000 or so. I was in Nashville on business, and my boss had gotten tickets for us and our wives for the Grand Ole Opry. I am not a country music fan, but I was fairly familiar with a lot of country acts from my youth. I still remember on Saturdays, starting around 5:00 PM my parents would start watching a slate of 30 minute country music programs on one of the local UHF channels. To my surprise (and shock), some of those acts from decades past were still singing (or attempting to sing) at the Opry. I saw Bill Anderson and Jan Howard (they used to have a show) and Little Jimmy Dickens (he was a guest on all those old shows) and several others.

Most of those old acts were pretty dreadful. Almost all of those old timers had lost their voices. At one point, Roy Clark came out to do about 15 minutes (they rotate shows at the Opry, and they run 15-30 minutes). He was absolutely superb. He still sounded great, and he even did "Thank God & Greyhound".

[Delta 21]

STYX was rolling thru with their old age tour a year or so (Probly more) back and my daughter wanted to get me tickets because I listen to their original analog 12” vinyl lps, a.k.a. - records quite often in the mix.

She understood when I declined and told her that I had recently watched a Quello concert of their latest concert and I would really rather preferred to remember them as the kick-ass rockers of my youth.

Roy Clark always looked like he was enjoying playing tons more than everyone else in the room listening.