e. b. white and when did he live? >> guest: e. b. white is best-known as a great american essayist and prose stylist and the author of three children's books, including "charlotte's web," and he died i think it is exactly 13 years ago this fall. i remember because we went to the memorial service and took our one-year-old daughter, and she was the only baby there, and she'll be 14, so i think it's 13 years ago he died. c-span: did you get to know him at all? >> guest: i did pretty well, yeah. c-span: what was he like? >> guest: he was a very shy and very private man, but once you got to know him and he felt comfortable with you, he was very charming, very unpretentious, down to earth, a little bit of a crusty new englander, very ordinary, not the literary man that you might expect, not a great reader. he read the newspaper. he was a little behind in--in book reading. he told me that just a few years earlier, he'd finally got around to reading "gone with the wind." this is just a few years before i met him. c-span: so you--you read the

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white music, black music. music. there's only seven notes. a, b, c, d, e, f, g. music is the key.ellow out and relax, man. >> one, two, three. >> we met jesse delstanford working at the only other band room our crew has visited at kentucky state penitentiary. >> i get mad sometimes. i get angry. but instead of taking it out on anybody, i take it out on miss purdy. ♪ >> why the name? >> why the name? because she is purdy. she is purdy. she is my favorite color, blue. >> convicted of robbery, kidnapping and murder, stanford began serving his 390-year sentence in 1985. but instead of counting the days, he keeps time his own way. >> it just oozes from my pores, man. music is all i have. nothing else is going to last. music is always going to be there for me. >> those guys are really good. and we had a long schedule of events that day. but once we got out of the band room, we started filming, we kind of lost ourselves. the guys were jamming out and we just didn't really want to leave. actually at one point our production assistant got up and sang with the fellows for a little while. ♪