Not many people have held Hank Williams demo recordings with his handwriting on them. But Alan Stoker has. He recently retired from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, where he worked for 50 years, much of it spent preserving and archiving rare — and sometimes fragile — recordings. He was there long enough that some of the recordings he archived he returned to a second time in order to digitize.

Alan was born into a musical family; his father was Gordon Stoker, a member of the Jordanaires, one of music history's most storied vocal groups — working with Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash and countless others over a decades-long career. Alan's father gave him his first tape recorder, which set him on the path to audio engineering. He's pretty good behind a drum kit, too.

Guest: Alan Stoker, musician and audio archivist

Host: Demetria Kalodimos

Producers: Steve Haruch and Lilly Sabella

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