>> JIM FORD IS THE GREATEST

 

KENTUCKY SONGWRITER YOU'VE

 

PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF.

 

WHETHER IT'S ROSE CUE, REHAB OR

 

ROUND THE CLOCK CARE, SECOND

 

CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER PROVIDES

 

INJURED AND ORPHANED ANIMALS

 

WITH THE HELP THEY NEED.

 

AND IN DANVILLE, ARTIST SHELDON

 

TAPLEY WAS LURED BY AT PEEL OF

 

KENTUCKY'S LANDSCAPES.

 

STAY WITH US BECAUSE KENTUCKY

 

LIFE BEGINS RIGHT NOW.

 

♪ ♪

 

♪ ♪

 

HELLO, I'M DOUG FLYNN, HOST OF

 

KENTUCKY LIFE.

 

HERE AGAIN IN HARRODSBURG AT THE

 

BEAUTIFUL BEAUMONT INN, IN A

 

STATE WITH SO MANY GIFTED

 

MUSICAL ARTISTS, SOME OF

 

KENTUCKY'S MUSICIANS MAY JUST BE

 

DESTINED TO SLIP THROUGH THE

 

CRACKS OF STARDOM.

 

JIM FORD WAS BORN IN JOHNSON

 

COUNTY IN 1941.

 

HE WROTE SONGS THAT WERE COVERED

 

BY TOP ARTISTS LIKE ARETHA

 

FRANKLIN AND THE TEMPTATIONS.

 

BUT HE ONLY RECORDED ONE STUDIO

 

ALBUM.

 

AFTER HIS DEATH IN 2007, MORE OF

 

HIS WORK WAS RELEASED AND AS NEW

 

GENERATIONS OF MUSICIANS

 

DISCOVER HIS SONGS, JIM FORD MAY

 

FINALLY ACHIEVE THE RECOGNITION

 

HE DESERVES.

 

♪ WITH A ROLL OF BALONEY AND A

 

HUNK OF CHEESE AND SALTINE CRACK

 

ERS...

 

>> JIM FORD WAS BORN IN JOHNSON

 

COUNTY, KENTUCKY, IN 1941.

 

HE WAS BORN WHEN VAN LEER WAS

 

STILL AN OPERATING COAL TOWN AND

 

HE LIVED THERE UNTIL HE WAS

 

ABOUT 13 AND HE WENT SHORTLY TO

 

LIVE WITH HIS FATHER IN MICHIGAN

 

AND THAT DIDN'T GO SO WELL.

 

>> I GUESS HE DIDN'T LIKE THE

 

RULES.

 

HE SAID MAYBE HE DIDN'T LIKE,

 

YOU KNOW, DEALING WITH THE

 

MILITARY FATHER.

 

SO HE TOOK A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY

 

AND HOPPED A GREYHOUND BUS TO

 

NEW ORLEANS.

 

HE MUST HAVE LANDED IN NEW

 

ORLEANS WHEN HE WAS IN HIS EARLY

 

TEENS.

 

>> AND HE WAS SORT OF AN OUTSID

 

ER ARTIST.

 

HE HAD AN IDEA WHAT HAVE HIS

 

MUSIC SHOULD SOUND LIKE AND HE

 

NEVER MOVED FROM THAT.

 

♪ MY HOPES ARE HIGH, SO AM I,

 

YOU BETTER LOOK OUT, CALIFORNIA

 

>> I ALWAYS CONSIDERED HIM A

 

PIONEER OF THE GENRE OF THE

 

STYLE OF COUNTRY FUNK.

 

>> HE WROTE STRAIGHT UP COUNTRY

 

STRONGS, STRAIGHT UP SOUL SONGS

 

THAT OTHER PEOPLE COULD COVER

 

BUT HIS OWN STUFF WAS REALLY A

 

COMBINATION OF ALL THOSE THINGS.

 

♪ THE CANDLE'S BURN, THE CYCLE'S

 

TURN ♪

 

♪ ANOTHER DAY COMES HERE TO

 

LEARN ♪

 

♪ ALL THE THINGS I MISSED OUT ON

 

>> HIS SONG, HARLEM COUNTY IS

 

ONE OF THE FIRST ONES I HEARD.

 

♪ IN THE BACK HILLS OF KENTUCKY

 

I WAS RAISED IN A SHACK...

 

>> IT KIND OF HIT ME LIKE A

 

BRICK WALL.

 

I STOPPED AND LISTENED TO IT

 

OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

 

♪ THE TIMES I WENT HUNGRY, YOU

 

CAN'T COUNT ♪

 

>> I COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT

 

SOMEBODY WAS TELLING THAT STORY

 

IN THAT STYLE.

 

♪ A MAN IS TIRED OF LIVING

 

WHETHER HE'S 20.

 

>> HAR LIN COUNTY, HE GOT A

 

BLANK CHECK TO MAKE THE ALBUM.

 

>> THE LATE SIXTH INTO THE EARLY

 

SEVENTH 70s, ONLY STUDIO FULL

 

LENGTH ALBUM HE WAS ABLE TO GET

 

OUT INTO THE WORLD.

 

HE WAS ABLE TO USED WHATEVER

 

PLAYERS HE WANTED AND IT WAS

 

PERFECT FOR HIM BECAUSE HE WAS A

 

VISIONARY ARTIST AND HE HAD Dr.

 

JOHN AND JIM CILT DISLT NE

 

R.

 

ALL OF THE STARS ALIGNED AND HE

 

WAS ABLE TO MAKE THAT ONE ALBUM

 

BUT IT NEVER HAPPENED.

 

>> THE SOUNDS OF OUR TIME.

 

THAT'S A SOUL ANTHEM.

 

THAT'S JUST SUCH A POWERFUL

 

PIECE OF MUSIC OF DESCRIBING A

 

LANDSCAPE OF EVERYTHING THAT WAS

 

HAPPENING IN THE LATE SIXTH AND

 

CAPTURING KIND OF THE ENERGY OF

 

ALL THE VARIOUS MOVEMENTS

 

HAPPENING AT THE TIME.

 

♪ BIG GUNS FIRE, SOUNDS TO ME

 

LIKE MY BROTHER'S DYING ♪

 

HE HAD ALL THE INFLUENCES FROM

 

THE BLUES, GOSPEL, COUNTRY, SOUL

 

, R&B, ALL OF IT MIXED IN

 

AND WAS A GREAT INTERPRETER OF

 

OTHER SONGS.

 

AND WILLY DIXON SPOONFUL IS A

 

GREAT EXAMPLE OF THAT.

 

>> JIM FORWARD WAS A GREAT

 

INTERPRETER OF OTHER PEOPLE'S

 

SONGS.

 

HE DOES WILLY DIXON SPOONFUL,

 

THE ROCKED OUT VERSION OF THAT.

 

♪ SOME WONDER WHY...

 

>> ON SOUNDS OF OUR TIME, THE UN

 

ISSUED CAPITAL ALBUM HE DOES A

 

VERSION OF SAM COOK'S CHAIN GANG

 

THAT RIVALS THE ORIGINAL IF YOU

 

CAN BELIEVE THAT.

 

HE WAS SUCH A GREAT SINGER, HE

 

WAS AS GOOD OF A SINGER AS

 

SONGWRITER IF NOT BETTER.

 

♪ ALL DAY LONG WE WORKED SO HARD

 

UNTIL THAT SUN IS GONE ♪

 

♪ DOWN, DOWN, DOWN ON THE

 

HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS ♪

 

♪ WEARING A FROWN ♪

 

>> THERE IS A STRONG COMMUNITY

 

OF YOUNG KENTUCKY ARTISTS OUT

 

WORKING TODAY WHO ARE DOING THE

 

DEEP DIVE INTO KENTUCKY CULTURE.

 

>>

 

♪ WAS GOING HAVE A BABY COME

 

SATURDAY NIGHT ♪

 

♪ BUT ALL THEY WERE DOING WAS

 

HUGGING AND KISSING DOWN BY THE

 

RIVERSIDE ♪

 

>> THERE IS A WHOLE NEW

 

GENERATION OF ARTISTS OUT OF

 

KENTUCKY WHO ARE REDISCOVERING

 

THE MUSIC OF JIM FORD AND LIND

 

AN JEAN STOKELY AN ANNA KLINE

 

ARE RIGHT THERE IN THE MIX.

 

♪ DOWN BY THE RIVER I HEARD

 

SOMEONE SAY ♪

 

♪ HALLELUJAH USA ♪

 

♪ DOWN BY.

 

♪ DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE I HEARD

 

SOMEONE SAY ♪

 

♪ HALLELUJAH BIG MOUTH USA ♪

 

>> BABY SQUIRRELS FALL OUT OF

 

TREES, BATS BREAK THEIR WINGS

 

AND SKUNKS AND OPOSSUMS SEEM

 

PRONE TO CROSSING THE ROADS AT

 

THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME.

 

SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER

 

HAS BEEN RESCUING AND

 

REHABILITATING INJURED AND

 

ORPHANED WILDLIFE FOR OVER A

 

DECADE.

 

EVERY YEAR MORE THAN 100 ANIMALS

 

RECEIVE EXPERT CARE AND COM

 

PASSION FROM THE CENTER'S

 

DEDICATED STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS

 

>> I'M ESPECIALLY PROUD WHEN I'M

 

BY MYSELF IN OUR EDUCATION

 

BUILDING.

 

I THINK BACK TO 2009 WHEN I'M

 

SITTING AT MY KITCHEN TABLE AND

 

DECIDED THIS IS A GOOD IDEA.

 

I THINK I SHOULD START

 

REHABILITATING.

 

THERE IS A NICHE FOR THIS IN OUR

 

COMMUNITY.

 

IT'S A VITAL NEED THAT WE HAVE.

 

SO I AM PROUD TO THINK WHERE I

 

STARTED AND WHERE I AM AND THEN

 

THERE ARE OTHER DAYS THAT I

 

QUESTION MYSELF, WHAT IN THE

 

WORLD AM I DOING.

 

IT IS REALLY JUST A LOT OF HARD

 

WORK.

 

>> WHEN I FIRST STARTED

 

VOLUNTEERING FOR BRIDGE--

 

BRIDGET IT WAS IN HER BACKYARD

 

IN A NICELY REMODELED GARAGE.

 

IT WAS A GARAGE, IT WAS A SMALL

 

SPACE AND WE COULDN'T HOUSE AS

 

MANY ANIMALS BUT WE STILL TOOK

 

IN EVERY SINGLE ANIMAL WE COULD.

 

WE HATED TURNING ANYONE AWAY.

 

IT HAS BECOME WHAT IT IS TODAY

 

WHERE WE HAVE THIS HOUSE JUST

 

DEDICATED TO WHAT WE DO, A WHOLE

 

CENTER WITH AN EDUCATIONAL

 

CENTER.

 

WE HAVE LAND TO RELEASE ANIMALS

 

ON SO IT'S JUST AMAZING TO SEE

 

HOW IT'S GROWN AND SHE HAD ALL

 

THESE IDEAS AND SHEILAS JUST

 

MADE IT HAPPEN.

 

IT'S AMAZING.

 

>> THEY HAVE THE PROFESSIONAL

 

BACKGROUND TO HELP THESE ANIMALS

 

AND BIFF THEM THE BEST CHANCE AT

 

SURVIVAL AND WHAT I LOVE ABOUT

 

IT IS THAT THESE ANIMALS WILL BE

 

REINTRODUCED INTO THE WILD.

 

YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO GO

 

SOMEWHERE WHERE THEY END UP IN A

 

LITTLE CAGE FOREVER.

 

THEY DO THEIR BEST FOR EVERY

 

ANIMAL THAT IS TO BE ABLE TO BE

 

RELEASED FOR THEM TO GO BACK

 

INTO THE WILD.

 

AND THAT'S WHAT I LOVE

 

>> WE STARTED OFF RECEIVING 50

 

PHONE CALLS EACH YEAR AND WE ARE

 

UP TO ABOUT 2500.

 

THANKFULLY WE DON'T NEED TO TAKE

 

ALL THOSE ANIMALS.

 

WE ARE ABLE TO REUNITE A LOT OF

 

THE BABIES WITH THEIR NATURAL

 

PARENTS.

 

I HAVE ABOUT 40 VOLUNTEERS THAT

 

WORK WITH ME.

 

THEY'RE VITAL TO OUR

 

ORGANIZATION.

 

THEY ARE VITAL TO US BEING ABLE

 

TO ACCEPT SO MANY ANIMALS AND

 

SAVE SO MANY LIVES.

 

WE TAKE IN INJURED AND ORPHANED

 

WILDLIFE NATIVE TO KENTUCKY.

 

OUR GOAL IS TO ALWAYS TRY TO

 

RELEASE THEM BACK INTO THE WILD

 

AND THOSE THAT ARE NOT QUITE

 

HEALTHY ENOUGH TO SURVIVE BECOME

 

OUR EDUCATION AMBASSADORS.

 

WE REHABILITATE APPROXIMATELY

 

300 ANIMALS EACH YEAR MOST OF

 

THOSE ANIMALS DO MAKE IT BACK

 

OUT INTO THE WILD.

 

ABOUT 80% OF THEM.

 

SOMETIMES ANIMALS COME TO US

 

JUST IN TOO DIRE A CONDITION TO

 

BE ABLE TO MAKE IT OUT INTO THE

 

WILD.

 

SO SOME OF THOSE, THE ONES THAT

 

BECOME OUR EDUCATION AMBASSADORS

 

, THEY'RE LICENSED

 

THROUGH THE USDA.

 

WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE

 

A COUPLE OF RACCOONS THAT THE GO

 

OUT FOR EDUCATION.

 

WE HAVE TWO FLYING SQUIRRELS, A

 

LOT OF OPOSSUMS.

 

WE HAVE FOUR OPOSSUMS.

 

AND WE HAVE A GROUND HOG AND

 

THREE SKUNKS AND ARM BILL OWE

 

HIVE-- HIEFER ARMADILLO AND EACH

 

ONE SERVES A DIFFERENT NICHE TO

 

GO OUT AND TEACH FOR VARIOUS

 

REASONS.

 

I'M AN EDUCATOR BY BACKGROUND.

 

WHEN WE BRING THE ANIMALS OUT

 

WITH US, IT IS NOT NECESSARILY A

 

SHOW AND TELL.

 

WE MEET STATE STANDARDS.

 

WE MEET THE NECESSITY GENERATION

 

-- THE NEW GENERATION

 

SCIENCE STANDARDS.

 

WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT THE

 

ANIMALS COMING TO THE CLASSES IS

 

IT FORMS A CONNECTION WITH THE

 

STUDENTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT.

 

WHEN THEY CAN GET EXCITED TO SEE

 

THESE ANIMALS IN A DIFFERENT

 

SETTING THAN THEY NORMALLY DO,

 

THEY'RE RAMPED UP.

 

THEY'RE EXCITED.

 

THEY'RE GOING TO GO OUT AND MAKE

 

BETTER CHOICES NOT ONLY FOR OUR

 

WILDLIFE BUT OUR ENVIRONMENT AS

 

A WHOLE.

 

THAT IS A HUGE GOAL FOR US I. IS

 

NOT JUST THE REHABILITATION.

 

IT IS FOR PEOPLE TO THINK ABOUT

 

THE DECISIONS THEY'RE MAKING

 

THAT AFFECT WILDLIFE AND OUR

 

ENVIRONMENT ONCE YOU SEE THE

 

ANIMALS RETURN TO THEIR

 

ENVIRONMENT, RETURN TO WHERE

 

THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE, YOU

 

BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF LIKE

 

THIS IS WHAT I'M DOING THIS FOR.

 

IT IS HARD FEW MONTHS OF HARD

 

LABOR.

 

IT MAKES IT WORTH IT.

 

YOU JUST KEEP IT IN MIND AND YOU

 

KIND OF GET ATTACHED EVEN THOUGH

 

WE ARE CAREFUL NOT TO BABY TALK

 

THEM OR TO HANDLE THEM TOO MUCH.

 

YOU KNOW, YOU ARE FEEDING AN

 

ANIMAL AT LEAST TWICE A DAY ON A

 

SHIFT AND EVERY SINGLE WEEK YOU

 

SEE THEM AND YOU KNOW, YOU DO GO

 

HOME.

 

AND IF THEY'RE NOT DOING TOO

 

GREAT, YOU ARE HOPING YOU ARE

 

GOING TO SEE THEM AGAIN AND THAT

 

THEY'RE GOING TO BE OKAY AND YOU

 

ARE SAD, YOU KNOW.

 

>> EVEN IF YOU DON'T GET THE

 

TIME WITH THE ANIMAL, YOU STILL

 

CARE ABOUT THE WELL-BEING AND

 

YOU DON'T WANT THE SEE ANY HARM

 

COME TO THEM.

 

>> THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN

 

KNOWING THAT YOU'VE MADE A

 

DIFFERENCE FOR AN ANIMAL THAT

 

WOULD OTHERWISE NOT HAVE SURVIV

 

ED AND I FEEL THAT IT'S

 

OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS HUMANS TO

 

HELP AND PROVIDE THE CARE AND

 

SUPPORT THAT AN ANIMAL NEEDS

 

THAT IS SUFFERING DUE TO A CAR

 

HITTING IT OR LAWN MOWER OR

 

SOMETHING THAT WE'VE CAUSED AS

 

HUMANS.

 

>> WE MAKE SURE THAT THESE

 

ANIMALS HAVE ADEQUATE SURVIVAL

 

SKILLS BEFORE THEY GO.

 

SO HOPEFULLY WITH THOSE SKILLS

 

THEY'RE ON THEIR OWN AND THEY

 

WILL SURVIVE FOR A LONG AMOUNT

 

OF TIME.

 

>> YOU KNOW, RUMOR HAS IT MANY

 

FUTURE MAJOR LEAGUER GOT HIS

 

START IN THE RANKS OF LITTLE

 

LEAGUE BASEBALL.

 

AND KENTUCKY'S TEAMS HAVE A

 

GREAT TRADITION OF SUCCESS.

 

SINCE JOINING THE GREAT LAKES

 

REGION IN 2001, SEVEN KENTUCKY

 

TEAMS WON THE REGIONAL

 

CHAMPIONSHIP WITH A VALLEY

 

SPORTS AMERICAN TEAM FROM

 

LOUISVILLE WINNING IT ALL IN

 

WILLIAMSPORT IN 2002.

 

JOIN US AS WE TAKE IN THE EXCITE

 

MENT OF OPENING DAY CHAMPS

 

ST. MATTHEWS.

 

♪ ♪

 

♪ ♪

 

♪ ♪

 

( BACKGROUND NOISES)

 

>> NOW BATTING NUMBER 1.

 

>> COME ON, COME ON!

 

>> RUN, RUN!

 

>> 1, 2, 3!

 

>> GOOD JOB,.

 

>> EARNEST SHELDON TAPLEY MOVED

 

TO DANVILLE TO TEACH AT CENTER

 

COLLEGE.

 

NOW MORE THAN 35 YEARS LATER,

 

TAPLEY IS A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZ

 

ED PAINTER KNOWN FOR HIS

 

STILL LIVES AND FOR HIS

 

LANDSCAPES.

 

>> MY STUDIO HERE ON MAIN STREET

 

IS RIGHT IN THE HUB OF DOWNTOWN

 

DANVILLE AND I WALK DOWN HERE

 

MOST DAYS.

 

WHEN I FOUND THIS STUDIO, VERY

 

EAGER TO FIND NORTH LIGHT WINDOW

 

S.

 

I WANTED TO WORK BY DAYLIGHT AS

 

MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

 

AND I WILL SET UP A STILL LIFE

 

IN THE LIGHT COMING FROM THAT

 

WINDOW AND THE LIGHT MAKES THE

 

SPACE.

 

>> EVERY TIME WE FLY BACK TO

 

KENTUCKY FROM SOME OTHER PLACE

 

THE INCREDIBLE WEALTH OF BEAUTY

 

OUT THE AIRPLANE WINDOW AS YOU

 

COME INTO THE STATE AND YOU JUST

 

SEE THE GREEN AND ROLLING HILLS

 

AND YOU THINK PEOPLE GO TO

 

ENGLAND, IRELAND, FRANCE.

 

THEY GO PLACES THAT THE LOOK

 

LIKE THIS AND KENTUCKY LOOKS

 

LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME.

 

WHEN I MOVED TO DANVILLE IN 1983

 

, I HAD JUST COME HERE FROM

 

GRADUATE SCHOOL TO START

 

TEACHING AT CENTER COLLEGE AND

 

LANDSCAPE ART WAS SOMETHING I

 

REALLY WANTED TO PURSUE.

 

I COULDN'T HAVE COME TO A BETTER

 

PLACE THAN KENTUCKY.

 

AND DANVILLE, IT WAS EASY TO GET

 

OUT TO THE COUNTRY SIDE AND

 

RESUME MY WORK AS A LANDSCAPIST.

 

THE LUSHNESS, THE ROLLING HILLS,

 

THE MARVELOUS SKIES REINFORCED

 

FOR ME, THE IMPORTANCE OF THE

 

MOTIFS I WAS FINDING WHEN I WENT

 

OUT TO PAINT THERE IS A HUNGER

 

AND REWARD THAT GOING OUT TO

 

NATURE BRINGS TO PAINTING AND TO

 

POINTING WITH THE WEATHER, WITH

 

THE COWS, WITH WHATEVER THE DAY

 

BRINGS YOU.

 

THERE IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS

 

THAT'S MAGICAL AS I WAS LEARNING

 

MORE ABOUT HOW TO BE A GOOD

 

LANDSCAPE PAINTER IN MY 20s, I

 

SPENT A LOT OF TIME LOOKING AT

 

THE ENGLISH PAINTER JOHN

 

CONSTABLE AND THE KENTUCKY

 

LANDSCAPE HAS A LOT OF ECHOS OF

 

THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE.

 

>> IT'S INSPIRING TO GO AND SEE

 

A CONSTABLE LANDSCAPE AND THINK

 

WHAT CAN I BRING TO THAT.

 

IF I'M GOING TO MAKE A LANDSCAPE

 

WHERE WE LIVE, HOW DO I BRING

 

SOME OF THAT RICHNESS AND

 

VITALITY TO MY OWN WORK.

 

>> ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT NOT

 

WORKING DIRECTLY FROM A

 

PHOTOGRAPH IS THAT MY SENSE OF

 

COLOR, MY IMAGINATION CAN COME

 

INTO PLAY MORE FREELY THAN IF

 

I'M SIMPLY WORKING FROM A

 

PHOTOGRAPHIC REFERENCE.

 

>> SHELDON'S WORK, THERE IS AN

 

IMMEDIATE REWARD AND THEN THERE

 

ARE MORE HIDDEN REWARDS IF YOU

 

KEEP LOOKING AND YOU THINK ABOUT

 

IT BECAUSE IT WAS MADE BY A

 

REALLY SMART PAINTER.

 

>> I THINK OOTSZ THAT'S ONE

 

-OF-THE-THINGS ABOUT

 

LANDSCAPE THAT HELPED ME THINK

 

THAT I REALLY LIVED IN KENTUCKY.

 

I WAS PAINTING THE LANDSCAPED

 

AROUND ME.

 

>> MIGHT THINK OF THEM AS SHORT

 

STORIES OR EVEN SOME OF THE

 

BIGGER PAINTINGS, I THINK OF

 

THEM AS BEING LIKE NOVELS

 

BECAUSE THE OBJECTS, THE INTER

 

PLAY WEN THE OBJECTS AND

 

THE RHYTHMS AND THE SHAPES THAT

 

REFERENCE ONE ANOTHER AND HOW

 

THEY BOUNCE BACK AND FORTH RE

 

WARD LONG LOOKING.

 

>> I WAS LOOKING AT STILL LIFE

 

AND I WANTED TO FIND THE STORIES

 

, THE IMPLICIT CONNECTION

 

AND CONJUNCTIONS THAT THE PEOPLE

 

WOULD FIND WHEN THEY LOOKED AT

 

THEM AND THE GRACE MASSERS OF

 

THE STILL LIFE IN WESTERN ART

 

ARE THE DUTCH, FLEMISH, NORTHERN

 

EUROPEANS SO I WENT TO THEM TO

 

LOOK AT THEM AND HOW THEY MADE

 

THOSE PAINTINGS AND WE USE

 

OBJECTS IN WAYS THAT ARE PART OF

 

MODERN LIFE AND EVERYTHING WE

 

USE CONNECTS TO THE HUMAN BODY

 

AND THE HUMAN STORY I THINK THE

 

STILL LIVES HAVE A VIVIDNESS AND

 

QUALITY OF JOY AND APPRECIATION,

 

A SENSUOUS QUALITY THAT IS IN

 

THE TEXTURE AND THE SHINE AND

 

THE COLOR EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK

 

THERE IS A GATHERING OF OBJECTS

 

AND THEY SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE

 

PEOPLE THAT MADE THEM.

 

>> ALL CAN I REALLY DO IS MAKE A

 

PAINTING AS BEST I CAN SO THAT

 

THE FEELING, THE STRUCTURE, THE

 

THOUGHT THAT GOES INTO IT OFFERS

 

SOMETHING SUBSTANTIAL, I HOPE.

 

>> SHELDON TAPLEY WAS PROFILED

 

IN KET'S 2001 ART SERIES LOOKING

 

AT PAINTING.

 

HE WAS ONE OF FOUR ARTISTS WHO

 

DEMONSTRATED THE REALIST STYLE

 

OF PAINTING AND DISCUSSED WHAT

 

INSPIRED THEIR ART.

 

HERE ON KENTUCKY LIFE, WE ARE

 

ALWAYS INSPIRED BY THE WORK OF

 

OUR STATE'S ARTISTS AND WE LOOK

 

FORWARD TO SHARING MORE OF THEIR

 

STORIES WITH YOU.

 

AND NOW, WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE

 

SOME MOMENTS FROM WHAT IS ALWAYS

 

ONE OF THE YEAR'S MOST

 

ANTICIPATED MUSICAL EVENINGS,

 

WHEN THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

 

'S OPERA THEATER TAKES

 

THE STAGE AT THE SINGLETARY

 

CENTER TO PERFORM HIT SONGS,

 

CLASSICS FROM THE BILLBOARD

 

CHARTS AND BROADWAY SHOW TUNES.

 

ENJOY THE 25th ANNIVERSARY

 

PERFORMANCE OF GRAND NIGHT FOR

 

SINGING.

 

I'M DOUG FLYNN ENJOYING LIFE,

 

KENTUCKY LIFE.

 

♪ ♪

 

♪ ♪

 

♪ AIN'T NO SUNSHINE WHEN SHE'S

 

GONE ♪

 

♪ IT'S NOT WARM WHEN SHE'S AWAY

 

♪ AIN'T NO SUNSHINE WHEN SHE'S

 

GONE, AND SHE'S ALWAYS GONE TOO

 

LONG ♪

 

♪ ANY TIME SHE GOES AWAY ♪

 

WONDER THIS TIME WHERE SHE'S

 

GONE ♪

 

♪ WONDER IF SHE'S GONE TOO STAY.

 

♪ AIN'T NO SUNSHINE WHEN SHE'S

 

GONE ♪

 

THIS HOUSE JUST AIN'T NO HOME

 

ANY TIME SHE GOES AWAY ♪

 

♪ SHE GOES AWAY ♪

 

♪ THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF

 

BUSINESS IN SHOW BUSINESS ♪

 

JUST ASK ANY STRANGER YOU MEET ♪

 

♪ ♪

 

♪ ♪

 

WE'RE A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE

 

KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE ♪

 

♪ WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF OUR OWN

 

♪ ♪

 

♪ ♪

 

♪ 55526,000 MINUTES.

 

♪ 500, 526,000 MINUTES.

 

HOW DO YOU MEASURE, MEASURE A

 

YEAR ♪

 

IN DAYLIGHT ♪

 

IN SUNSHET ♪

 

♪ ♪

 

IN INCHES, IN MILES AND LAUGHTER

 

525,600 MINUTES.

 

HOW DO YOU MEASURE A YEAR IN THE

 

LIGHT ♪

 

HOW ABOUT LOVE, LOVE ♪

 

HOW ABOUT LOVE.