Well, if you are here, you know about the upcoming Christmas album. I hate the idea of a Christmas album. I like Bob's cover of Old MacDonald... it didn't need the Casio keyboard drum machine.

Why not a cover album? What happened to the Hank Williams unreleased songs project?

"Well, I'm standin' in line in the rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck,
Yeah, but you know it's not the one that I had in mind.
He's got a new one out now, I don't even know what it's about
But I'll see him in anything so I'll stand in line."

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