SPKM DON POTTER When I first got saved I assumed this was really only an assumption on my part that I would immediately go full-time Christian music and run away from the world and never be in the world again and never have to face all the people I knew in the world, because it was many. And so I made one Christian album on Murray Records and I’ve just finished my second one, as a matter of fact. But I assumed that that would be, “O.K., I’m ready for the Christian music business. Thank you.” And it changed from there. The Lord said, “No, I’ve got something better not better than that, I don’t mean that.
That’s the wrong term, but I have something that I want you to stay in. I’ve trained you to be in that business, I want you to stay there. And that’s when I first met the producer of The Judds and he asked me to come to their house one afternoon when they were very, very first starting. He said, “This mother and daughter, I love the way they sound. I just want to get some arrangements and try to make a demo.” And I got into their house; meanwhile, still carpentering, and stood there with them and began to play. And they decided somewhere, by God’s grace, that I was very important to their sound. And I thought, golly, when was the last time an act said, you are important to our sound? And then the record company heard the first demos that we did and their first reaction was, that’s very important to your sound. That little guitar thing is very important to your sound.
And suddenly I got swept up into this thing and never even expected it, quite frankly. I really expected to do a demo and go home, is pretty much what would be the normal. And the Lord began to lift me up in their eyes, is really what it was. I’d love to say it was because I’m so handsome, but it was the Lord really lifted me up in their eyes so that I wouldn’t say I became a spiritual father, but in some ways it was like a spiritual father because the Lord had really put a burning desire in my heart to talk about the Lord with them. I just couldn’t shut up after I first got with them. And after a year of being with them, we were on the road. I worked with them on the road. And one night the daughter, Winona, who is a sweet, tender girl.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS She’s the lead singer.
SPKM DON POTTER She’s the lead singer. Just came to me on the bus and she said, “I just need to know more about this Lord that you serve.” And I led her to the Lord and she’s a blessing, you know.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Well, I want you to do something for me, Don. I want you to do two things, number one, I want you to greet The Judds for me. I’ve never met them. I’ve seen them many times. I’ve seen them win awards and I’ve always enjoyed their music. I want you to greet them for me and give them an invitation some time to come on this program and just sing and enjoy themselves. And the second thing is, I want you to sing and play another song. Give him a welcome. Here’s Don Potter. Don, bless you.
SPKM DON POTTER Thank you. This is a song, a tiny bit of preempt I’ll give you ahead of it. This is called “First Love.” It really deals with coming to the Lord in a real way, but more than that, seeing the faults of all of our friends and fellow Christians and whatever and loving them through them. I thought every Christian was perfect when I first saw them. I assumed that they were all wonderful, which they are, but then someone said, “Oh, wait till you get to know a few.” They thought and sure enough, there were a few that were not as wonderful as I would have hoped, I guess, you know. And the bubble sort of disappeared. Then I realized the Lord had something much stronger than just a false bubble. It was a commitment to walk with the brethren, regardless of what you think of them.
SPRR RICHARD ROBERTS Don Potter and I are joined today by my good friend Dino Kartsonakis Dino, God bless you, and welcome. You know, Dino, nobody ever lets you talk. They think that your last name is At The Piano, Dino At The Piano. They don’t know that your last name is Kartsonakis. They don’t know that you’re Greek. Of course anybody who looks at you can tell that you’re not, you know, you’re not from Denmark. But
SPKM DINO KARTSONAKIS Or Switzerland.
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