¶ I'm still looking to help
If I see a person , especially an older person , in need , although I'm an older person . Now I was going to say I have a rise , but the way I look at it , you know , I don't feel you know that older person you know . So I'm still looking to help See Marion James . And these older artists were still living .
Yeah , yeah , you know , most of them has died out since I started the museum . Yeah , yeah of them passed
¶ Starting the Museum and Telling Stories
. Then I said I've got to do it now in order to keep their legacy going , even with the African American Museum downtown , I went down and told some of my story and they brought a whole busload of their people here to learn my stories and I didn't think I had any stories worth telling that meant anything until I started doing interviews and I'm not a good
interviewer . I tell folk in a minute . I'm not great at interviewing at all . I tell folk in a minute . I'm not great at interviewing at all . I just tell my story and hope you take it like it's presented to you . You know , from the heart , and it's all about the stories . You know what folk want to hear .
When they come in this little museum they look at the pictures . But how does it relate to what took place on Jefferson Street ? My stories Now a couple of my friends . One of them bought him a new Corvette , one of them a Lexus and one of them lives in one of these tall and skinnies overlooking downtown
¶ Choosing Legacy Over Luxury
. Now I say that could have been me . Yes , exactly , I could have afforded that at one time , you know , but I chose to grind it out here in this little museum . I decided that I was not going to allow the legacy of these great artists and musicians , and especially the ones that didn't make it to stardom . I was not going to let them down .
You know , I was going to do something to keep their heads held high , and that's what I did with this little museum , because now it's being known around the world , not just here in Nashville
¶ Marion James' Jefferson Street Song
. Well , the piece now that goes out is back in the day that Marian James sung and it's about Jefferson Street Brilliant . We've been listening to Marian since we were here on Saturday , but you hadn't heard this one on Marian back in the day and it sings about the clubs .
Let me see if I can come up with something here just to give you a quick descriptio , righ ?
¶¶ of Nashville , tennessee that's history on a road named Jefferson Street . Back in the day , that was all the gold Gateway , jefferson Street , jazz and blues . That is the road oh I've been jealous of . You could stop at Good Jelly John . You can get a little moonshine and wine and it's close . You can slide on in there . Have a good time time .
Back in the day , that was all the gold . Jefferson Street , jazz and blues . That is the road . Back in the day . Back in the day , back in the day , back in the day , back in the day . Oh Lord , that was all ago .