Josh Turner invited Logan Blade, a 21-year-old autistic man on stage at the Grand Ole Opry to perform "Long Black Train." The two took turns on the song's verses, culminating in a standing ovation from the audience at its end.
In an interview with Nashville's FOX 17 News before the show, Turner said he's touched by Blade's support for him:
"Music is what really changed him and his family. It's just really gratifying and fulfilling for me to be able to see a young man like that, that is struggling in some ways -- but yet, due in part, a little bit, by what I've done musically, he's been able to become a different person."
Blade was diagnosed with autism at the age of two, according to the Columbia Daily Herald. He has a limited conversational palette but a great affection for the musical phrases of Turner.
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