9513 Interview With Richard Sterban From The Oak Ridge Boys

As most of our TNS readers know, I handle interviews for another wonderful country music site called The9513.com. This last week, I had a chance to interview one of the iconic voices in the industry, Richard Sterban from the Oak Ridge Boys. The deep-voiced singer, whose “ba-oom papa oom papa mow mow,” on “Elvira” (the best-selling record in Nashville recording history) is indelible on the country music landscape. Richard talks about the Oak Ridge Boys’ latest album, The Boys Are Back, as well as talks about the Country Music Hall Of Fame, their involvement in gospel music and what thefuture holds. It’s a great interview and can see the whole thing HERE.

“The thing that we’re most excited about is that after all of these years, we’re still doing this. I’ve been an Oak Ridge Boy for 36 years. Joe Bonsall came about a year after I did–he and I have been doing this 35 or 36 years together. And William Lee Golden and Duane Allen have been in the group for over 40 years. So the fact that we’ve been able to do this for this long and experience this kind of longevity in the music business is pretty phenomenal. It’s pretty mind-boggling, actually. So many of the country music acts that were our contemporaries have retired. But we have not. The Oak Ridge Boys have no plans on retiring. We’re still having fun doing this. We love everything about our career. We still enjoy taking our music live to our audience. It’s still the most fun thing that we do. Most days, when we are on the road, we live for that night to get up on stage and do our music live. It’s because even after all these years, it’s what we love doing.”