Chords for Grand Ole Opry Live Backstage with the Nashville Bluegrass Band

Coming up, we'll meet some of the hottest newer members
of America's bluegrass family, the Nashville Bluegrass Band,
and that's right after these messages. _ _
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_ Next backstage guests have been hailed
as one of the premier vocal acts in bluegrass music today.
And since 1984, the Nashville Bluegrass Band
has carried its new tradition music
to audiences around the world.
[Ab] Tonight, they bring it to the stage of the Grand Ole Opry,
and we're delighted to have them here
on our Saturday night show.
Welcome the Nashville Bluegrass Band in their entirety. _
Let me, let's see if I can do it here.
Stuart Duncan on the fiddle. _
_ Roland White, I'll get back to you.
Yes, sir. _
[D] Alan O'Brien.
See, I knew I'd remember.
_ This is Pat Enright, and this is Gene LeBay.
_ [C] You know, the first time I heard of you guys,
I got a call one night from John McEwen,
who used to be with [G] the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band,
he's now a solo act, but he was telling me,
he said, I've heard this new group,
they are great, the Nashville Bluegrass Band.
I said, well, their name is certainly original.
_ _ But he was really fired up about you guys,
and I heard you later on, and you've got a great [C] sound.
Thanks.
We've [Ab] known John for [A] quite a few years.
He's always been a Bluegrass fan.
How long has the band been together now?
Since late 84.
_ Is this your first appearance on the [E] Opry?
It's actually our second.
[Eb] We did one earlier [E] this year.
Stuart pointed out just a few moments ago,
and I was totally unaware of this,
that you guys used to play the theme song
here on the backstage show.
A couple years ago.
Could you give us a little of that?
I'm sure people [D] who've watched the show will remember.
There's an old Stephen Foster team called
Angeline and the Baker.
I did not know that.
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_ _ I _ _ can see the [Dm] credits rolling across the screen now.
It's either time to come on or go home one.
_ Roman, let me talk to you just a minute.
You've been around the Bluegrass scene for a long time.
I remember I used to see you on the Andy Griffith Show,
[G] and I was confused.
You weren't one of the Darlings.
You were even before the Darlings, right?
It was before that, right.
We had a group called the Country Boys,
me and my two brothers and myself,
and a couple other fellas.
You and Clarence White, your brother,
formed a group called the Kentucky Colonels.
Right, it became the Kentucky Colonels about 1961.
Johnny Bond and Joe Maphis came up with the name
and recorded, they produced an album on the band in 1962.
Yeah, and I know you were with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.
I came here in 1967 with Bill Monroe
as a guitar player from California,
and I went to work with Lester after Flatt and Scruggs broke up.
I went to work for Lester as a mandolin player.
I left that and went to join my brother again for a few months
and then was in a group called Country Gazette
for 15 years until this last year.
So now I'm here.
[Gm] I've seen you down at the station end here in Nashville
quite a [Dbm] bit too.
You still [G] play down there quite a bit?
Oh yes, we do. _
It's a little hangout for the Bluegrass.
_ Alan, you wrote a song I'm sure a lot of folks
are familiar with, done by the trio,
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Amy Lou Harris,
called Those Memories.
_ When did you write that?
_ I wrote that _ _ the second year that I was in Nashville.
Came to Nashville in 74, would have been 76.
I was working with James Monroe at the time.
Pat, let me ask you, you guys are fixing to go back
in the studio now and do a new album.
You've had three, and you got a new one on the way.
_ Well actually, we've had four.
We did a last record we did was with Peter Rowan, _
a collaboration album, and that record was nominated
for a Grammy last year.
Of course Bill won the Grammy that year.
But we're starting in the next couple weeks.
We're gonna start recording a new album,
got lots of [N] new tunes.
That's great.
Some songs by some Nashville writers, some we've written.
_ I think it's gonna be a great album.
We're shopping for a label.
RCA, call us up.
Gene, I understand that you guys were the first
Bluegrass group to tour mainland China.
That's correct, that was before I was with him,
but this was the first Bluegrass [C] band ever to play
in the People's Republic of China.
Now Pat, were you in on that tour?
Yeah, I was there.
It was wonderful.
[D] It was amazing.
I think we were one of the first groups,
private, as far as a private group going in,
in about 10 or 12 years.
The country was [C] closed up tight until a few years ago.
And it was quite a [D] trip, and [E] we'd love to do it again,
but I don't think we're gonna do it again for quite a while.
I'll tell you what I'd love for you to do.
We got about a minute left.
Can [Dm] we get just a little more music here as we go out?
Margaret, you wanna come up here and dance?
Yes!
You wanna dance, huh?
Yeah!
Come on, Margaret, come on.
We don't have time to read now.
One of us will dance.
And let me just go ahead and say
that those rip snortin' writers in the sky
will [D] roar in here in just a moment.
Boys, hit it if you [G] would.
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I told you we was having fun.
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