When I was coming up (in country music), you weren't a bona fide country star until you had a (tour) bus with your name written in big letters on the side. My first bus in 1962 was a used, dented, and rusty contraption, with bare sheet-metal walls inside. My band, the Jones Boys, called it "the gas chamber." Diesel fumes seeped through the floor into the cabin and it had no air-conditioning. Have you ever traveled in solid steel across a streeaming highway with a hot engine in the summertime?

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