Sam Phillips Responded Most To A Song

[my Mother] Made The Money To Send Me.

I Knew That When I Left There At The Age Of 18, I Wouldn't Be Back. And It Was Common Knowledge Among All The People There That When You Graduate From High School Here, You Go To College Or Go Get A Job Or Something And Do It On Your Own.

I Shot A Man In Reno Just To Watch Him Die.

This Business I'm In Is Different. It's Special. The People Around Me Feel Like Brothers And Sisters. We Hardly Know Each Other, But We're That Close; Somehow There's Been An Immediate Bonding Between Total Strangers. We Share Each Other's Triumphs, And When One Of Us Gets Hurt, We All Bleed - It's Corny, I Know, But It's True. I've Never Experienced Anything Like This Before. It's Great. It Turns Up The Heat In Life.

By The Time I Actually Recorded Bitter Tears I Carried A Heavy Load Of Sadness And Outrage; I Felt Every Word Of Those Songs... I Expected There To Be Trouble With That Album, And There Was.... When It Was Released, Many Radio Stations Wouldn't Play It.... The Very Idea Of Unconventional Or Even Original Ideas Ending Up On "country" Radio In The Late 1990s Is Absurd.