Is there an added pressure now that you’re Montgomery Gentry, members of the Opry?
EM: I don’t know if it’s pressure, but I want to make sure that we always stand for country music and we stand for the American Dream and we want to help more people be into country music. We want to get more people there as much as we can. We want to show what the legend is about the Opry. To me, the Grand Ole Opry is what made country music—that’s the bottom line. I really want to see it respected by the younger artists, and some might not know what it really is—they’ve heard of it, but they don’t know what it really is. Until you get in there and walk through the Ryman and you see these pictures and you feel these ghosts. There are ghosts in there. I promise you, man, you can feel them when you walk through that hall. And to meet legends like Little Jimmy Dickens—I got to meet Mr. Wagoner, Jimmy C. Newman, John Conlee—to sit down and listen to these guys’ stories, it’s just unbelievable. When you hear these stories, it’ll just floor you. PG: Once again, you guys have been nominated
