Lee sits down with Bill Cabbage and special cohost Shelby Shankland (who's running for Blount County Clerk, by the way), and if you're wondering how one man can be in four different bands without losing his mind, Bill's got it figured out. From Pistol Creek Catch of the Day to his Western swing combo with the Cats Away, this man's been the backbone of East Tennessee music since the Nixon administration.

Bill's the guy who learned guitar from Marvin Russell (like every other guitarist his age in Maryville), cut his teeth on Beatles songbooks, and somehow turned a bass drum gig in the Everett High School marching band into a five-decade musical career. He's played everything from timpani to car horns (yes, actual car horns for a bluegrass album), and he's still making about the same money he made in 1975. But hey, where else you gonna spend y ...