Gretchen Wilson at the CMA Awards

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00:00Jeff Kirkshen at the CMAs with Gretchen Wilson. Hi. I have one rule in this booth. I only get to

00:10ask you one question and then you're done. Oh, okay. Because I can talk a long time. That's

00:14probably all you have to do. You make my job easy and I love that. All right. So one big

00:19question for Gretchen Wilson is yesterday I talked to Ella Langley who told me and I asked her

00:25about how cool of a moment it was going eye to eye with you on stage at the Ryman like this.

00:31And I was like, Ella, you were just so confident. She's like, I was shaking in my boots. I was so

00:35nervous because she was so excited. She looks up to you. But then she added that you drank Jack

00:42out of a horn. Yeah. Can you confirm this? Yeah. Well, I brought her a bottle of single barrel

00:50Jack. It's some commemorative bottles that I had made a long time ago that say have the little

00:57necklace on them on the bottle that says CMA vocalist of the year. So I brought her that as

01:02a gift because she invited me to come sing with her at the Ryman, which I thought was really cool

01:06and very special. And of course, I thought it was really neat. So she said, we have this thing that

01:11we do on stage. And since you brought this whiskey, maybe we'll drink that out of there. But she said,

01:16well, you got to drink out of the horn. Well, I was expecting there to, you know, they were going

01:20to pour it in and it was going to come out of the bottle. Like a funnel. Right, right. Thank goodness,

01:23because who knows what would have happened if that would have been the case. But no, she said,

01:26it's just this little horn and we're going to pour it in and you're going to drink it. And I was like,

01:29yeah, that's kind of silly. And it's kind of the stuff that I used to do 20 years ago on stage.

01:33It reminded me very, very much of myself. So of course I said, yes. She was so happy that you said yes.

01:40And then she even admitted that she's been trying to get that part out of her act for like a while,

01:44but the band keeps saying, nope, this is tradition. And now that you've done it,

01:48you've kind of locked it in. My advice to Ella would be keep it. People love to see you being you.

01:53And also you're killing at least a minute and a half that you get to save your voice.

02:00Smart girl. Keep drinking it.

02:02Thank you so much for joining us here. Thank you.