Two, one. Good. Hello, Darryl. Hey Joe, how are you doing? My pleasure. Thank you for being here. Really, really

is all mine. Thank you. I read your story. I saw a thing about you

on NPR and it's crazy. You've converted how many people 200 KKK members you've got them to drop their robes right

some directly some indirectly yes how did that all happen?

Wow you know I keep running into these guys. I'm a musician by trade right

So rock and roll blues swing jazz my degrees in jazz but hey I'll play whatever you want me to play you're paying I'm playing so

everybody likes music you know even the K K K so use that to my advantage. I was playing at a bar one night in Frederick

Maryland and all white bar and when I say all white I don't mean that blacks

can go in. What I mean is that blacks chose not to go in. They weren't

welcome. And here I was in this bar with this country band, a friend of mine's band. I was only a

black guy in the band, only a black guy in the bar. And upon finishing the first set, I'm walking to the

band table and somebody came up and put their arm around my shoulder. I turned out to see who it was.

It was a white gentleman maybe 15, 18 years older than me.

And he says, yeah, yeah, I really enjoy your all's music.

I said, thank you, it should just end.

And he pointed at the stage and said, you know I've seen this here band before but I never seen you before.

Where'd you come from? And I was playing yeah, you know they told me they played here before but this is my first time in this place. I just joined the band.

And he said, well, man, I really like your piano playing. This is the first time I ever

heard a black man play a piano like Jerry Lee Lewis.

And I wasn't, I wasn't offended, but I was rather surprised because as I said, you know, this

guy was like maybe 15 years older than me and he did not know the black origin of

Jerry Lee that was a style of piano plan. I explained it to him. I got it from the

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