I've been reading a couple of music books and since I don't have any gigantic stories to tell today or any shows I've seen in the last couple of weeks, seems like a good idea to discuss one of them. Gerald Haslam's Working Man Blues:...
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This is the grave of Johnnie Lee Wills. Born in 1912 in Jewett, Texas, Wills was born into what became one of the most important musical families of the first.
Friends, it's going to be real hard to cut the tremendously shitty country music of Travis Tritt out of my life, let me tell you what: Travis Tritt is canceling.
This is the grave of Hank Snow. Born in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia in 1914, Clarence Snow grew up dirt poor. His parents had a bad marriage and they had no money at all. His father worked in sawmills, many of which were far away from...
On Roy Clark Grave Day, this was inevitable. At least we get some Loretta and Conway in this 1974 episode. https://www.youtube.com/embed/xMU_Td11y58
This is the grave of Roy Clark. Born in 1933 in Meherrin, Virginia, one might like to think the boy who would become one of the most legendary country guitarists.
This is the grave of Marty Robbins. Born in 1925 in Glendale, Arizona, Martin Robinson grew up in not great circumstances. His family was poor, with his mother Paiute and his father a drunk. Moreover, he was one of 10 kids. His parents divorced in...
The big music story right now is the caught-on-tape racism of Douche Country artist Morgan Wallen. Wow, some country bro being racist, so shocking... But what actually is shocking is.
This is the grave of George Morgan. Born in 1925 in Waverly, Tennessee, Morgan grew up in Doylestown, Ohio. He started playing on the radio when he was a young.
This is the grave of Johnny Paycheck. One of the truly great artists in country music history and one of the most underrated figures in the history of the genre today, Paycheck was born Donald Lytle in Greenfield, Ohio in 1938. He started playing in...
This is the grave of Little Jimmy Dickens. Born in 1920 in Bolt, West Virginia, the diminutive Dickens (he was 4'11") started playing on local radio in his home state.
This is the grave of John Hartford. Born in New York City in 1937, John Harford grew up in St. Louis. From the time he was a child, he was.