Gatlin Brother "All The Gold in California"

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I was stuck in a traffic jam in 1978, right in front of the Hollywood Bowl, and right in front of me was a 1958 Mercury station wagon with Oklahoma license plates. It had a bunch of kids and boxes and, you know, pots and pans and stuff.

And I said to myself, because I had read John Steinbeck's “Grapes of Wrath” … “These poor folks, they're coming out to California to get rich and famous, and they're gonna find out all too quickly that all the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else's name.”
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I took the little Hertz Rent-A-Car slip and I grabbed a pen out of my little saddlebags and I wrote “all the gold in California … .”
The light changed, the traffic jam broke up, and I went on over to Burbank where they used to have the Johnny Carson “Tonight Show.” That's where Warner Brothers Pictures is located and Warner Brothers Records. I had a meeting with Mr. Mo Ostin, very iconic producer, then I went out in the parking lot, I sat in my Hertz rental car, and I wrote “All the Gold in California.”

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Pop country artists couldn’t grasp this concept if it was explained to them like a 6 year old.

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Do you mean Luke Bryan doesn’t write all of his songs while sitting on a tailgate around the fire on a red dirt road drinking beer while his baby’s legs hang from the tailgate as she sips her sweet bourbon drink?

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