The All-Stars, live in the living room

Darrell Scott pulled together nearly everyone in his hand-picked band today at his home in the Belmont neighborhood of Nashville for a preliminary rehearsal for Friday's show. Lucky me, I got to be there with my video camera grabbing content for Uncovered. Bryan Sutton, Dan Dugmore, Stuart Duncan, and Kenny Malone made it. Viktor Krauss, who happens to live across the street, was out of town. Oh the irony. In the easiest and most conversational way imaginable they settled into three songs that will be just them, without NCO charts or musicians, on Friday. Bryan offered a Carter Family song by way of Flatt & Scruggs. And indirectly, he suggested another tune as well by wearing his Porter Wagoner hat. Porter, our own Grand Ole Opry lion in rhinestones, died Sunday, and it was on everyone's mind. So they worked up "A Satisfied Mind." Another recently departed musician, Joe Zawinul, inspired the jazziest song, "Mercy Mercy Mercy." Dugmore's steel sounded especially nice on that. This show is going to smoke.