You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.
AL JARREAUAnd there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball’s grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball’s grandfather.
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I would still be singing, because it’s part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up.
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Until my knee said, “Uh-uh,” I was jogging. Then I started walking. They don’t like walking a lot, but I’ll push them.
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A very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.
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So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.
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When you have that light in your eye, that you feel so good, and you’re a pleasant person to be around. “Good morning, sir. Did you find everything that you need?
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Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you’re the soloist, it’s you, and we follow you. We follow you.
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Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.
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I know more polkas than Frankie Yankovic. I grew up next door to the Polka Tavern in Milwaukee.
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I can sing some polkas. And proud of that.
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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
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Let that get you up in the morning and put the light in your eyes. I’m telling you, it makes you a better husband, mother, father, neighbor, citizen.
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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music.
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A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.
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