But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

She truly is one of the legendary icons behind the scenes of country music. She didn't take the curtain calls, but a lot of us would never have heard Flatt & Scruggs if it hadn't been for Louise Scruggs.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.

I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.