From the Nashville Scene:

“For those of you who feel your best years are behind you, we have two words: CAST KING. Though he recorded some sides at Sun Studios in the ’50s, the 80-year-old country singer released his first album, Saw Mill Man, just last year. The well-weathered Alabamian charmed the pants off the considerable crowd at Indiana Primitive Baptist Church Friday night with a combination of down-home warmth, craggy but soulful singing and a disarming sense of humor. The bare-bones chapel was a perfect fit for his rural sound, and for a man who quit playing in bars decades ago after getting religion. Thankfully, his churchgoing ways haven’t churched up his songs: a Kenny Rogers takeoff featured the chorus, “You picked a fine time to love me Lucille / My wife and my children are in the back fields,” and in another number he gladly admitted, “I’m a dirty old man with dirty old ways / I like to lead young girls astray.” King’s live playing has the unpredictability of an old Delta bluesman or Bob Dylan, where a 12-bar form might suddenly become 11 bars at a moment’s notice–but what the hell, that’s a front man’s prerogative, and it keeps the band on their toes. His between-song quips were priceless: with a straight face, he introduced the title track of his CD, “A lot of people like this song. I don’t particularly care for it.”? A hearty standing ovation greeted the end of his 45-or-so-minute set, spurring a slew of encores that lasted just about as long, with each song preceded by King saying, “OK, just one more.” He seemed to be having the time of his life, and we were thrilled to be a part of it.