The Senate recognized country icons Earl Scruggs and Don Gibson today.
The resolution was intended to boost a plan by Destination Cleveland County to start a Southern Music Heritage Museum honoring the two musicians.
But it also gave fans in the Senate a chance to talk about their heroes.
Sen. Charles Albertson, a professional country music singer, recalled rushing home from church to hear Scruggs on WPTF. Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand noted that "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" was his fraternity's theme song.
And Sen. Stan Bingham recalled playing a Flatt and Scruggs' bluegrass song, "Hot Corn, Cold Corn," to admiring Australians. He even quoted a few lines:
Here comes a preacher,
and the children are a crying.
The chickens are a hollering,
and the toenails are a flying.
"Everywhere we played they wanted to hear that one," he said.
