when we come back, country music superstar vince gill brings back the band. # >> duncan: we end tonight'sroadcast with how a country music legend allowed a small-town band to play once again. mark strassmann has the story. >> reporter: if music is a gift, what do you call this delivery? 40 boxed-up band instruments, all shiny and new, all donated. waverly, tennessee has a new struggle, the good kind -- finding the right word for this $100,000 surprise. >> it was certainly a tremendous, unseen -- >> blessing. that was coming. >> reporter: on august 22, rain wool lopped waverly, up to 17 inches in 17 inches in humhreys county in eight hours. >> you can see the water and the junior high sign right above it. >> reporter: joseph bullington is the band director for the olnior and sign yore h ta >> they were completely submerged in the toxic water. >> reporter: in waverly's calamity, replacing instruments was low priority except to the band kids. they lost their homes, instruments, everything. >> the water came in and the neighbor's house, foundation, our house, we had to climb through a window.