Teresa Knox bought The Church Studio sight unseen. Spent 6+ years restoring it. Built a hybrid business model—recording revenue, memberships, bar, audio engineering school, live music, 1.5 to 2 million YouTube views a month—because she understood what a historic site has to do to survive.

She's also the same 8-year-old girl who found Leon Russell on a Slurpee cup and never got over it.

New episode of Conversations from the Crossroads is up. Teresa and I talk preservation ethics, the Founder's Dilemma, the women of Mad Dogs and Englishmen, and the throughline from Leon Russell to the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Derek Trucks shows up drenched in sweat after a six-mile scooter ride in 110-degree Tulsa heat. Susan Tedeschi gets teary over a Linda Wolf lenticular.

That's what historic sites do to people.

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