Long before we started doing any recording, there was a lot of planning and strategizing to do. A lot of that began at the Hippie Chick Twang Records office on Music Row in Nashville. To inspire us, I bought a life-size cutout of Gene, and was carrying it under my arm into the office for one of our first meetings. A young lady, about 30-ish, far too young to be a Gene Autry fan, I thought, was walking by and said, "Who's that under your arm?" I said, "Well, let's see if you know who this is," and turned the cutout around so she could see his face. "Why, that's Gene Autry!" she exclaimed. "How do you know about Gene?" I asked, and she said, "Oh, I'm from Oklahoma, and everybody in Oklahoma knows about Gene Autry!"