It's the 2016 premiere of Opry Spotlight and THIS is absolutely the way to do it...with Lee Brice like I have never heard him before.

If someone steps to the mic and says "How about an old Johnny Paycheck song?" I'd imagine most of the audience would think "Take This Job and Shove It" or "She's All I Got" or "I'm the Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised."

Their thoughts probably wouldn't gravitate toward this extraordinary and extraordinarily mournful ballad of Paycheck's from 1986 that didn't even crack the top twenty.

A month ago, thankfully, Lee Brice dusted off "Old Violin" and gave THIS performance of it:

 

 

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