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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Meet the School Bus Driver with a Grammy Who Loves Driving a School Bus for Little Boys and Girls with Special Needs



He loves driving a school bus for little boys and girls with special needs so much so that he mentioned it in his acceptance speech.

It’s a special day in the afternoon bus line outside tiny Watertown Elementary School in rural Tennessee.

A smiling 4-year-old blonde girl carries a neon-yellow cardboard sign that reads “We Love Mr. Joe” and sheepishly hands it to the beaming bus driver.

“Ms. Elise!” he says, chuckling, deep voice booming. “Thank you, baby.”

Most kids at the small-town school love their bus drivers.

But this sign also is a large congratulations card — just days earlier Joe Thompson won a Grammy award in Los Angeles, about 2,048 miles away.

Thompson leads legendary gospel quartet The Fairfield Four, which broke big outside the genre in 2000 by appearing at the end of the Coen Brothers' movie “O Brother Where Art Thou?”

Still, that music thing is just a part-time gig for the 80-year-old bass singer.



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