Peter Cooper, the Senior Director, Producer, and Writer at the Country Music Hall of Fame, hits home runs every time he steps up to the plate. When he was covering music for the Tennessean, you could count on Cooper to deliver […]
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Remember when weekends were just for laying around and not doing much of anything? Now there’s a protest on every corner and a lot of people searching for ways to vent their frustration, their anger, their fears. Music, as always, […]
The same racial politics that make Charley Pride an important figure make it difficult to hear him dispassionately. Alas, we probably want him to have left a more distinctive imprint on the music than he did. Charlie Rich could be […]
Charley Pride’s new tribute to Jim Reeves will, inevitably, be measured against three sets of standards. First, Reeves fans will compare these versions to the original recordings of their hero, who died in a 1964 plane crash. Secondly, any new […]
You probably already know who Charley Pride is; after all, the country music industry has broken its arm a few times patting itself on the back for his accomplishments as the only major black star the style has yet produced. […]
Though Charley Pride is widely regarded as the artist who broke the color barrier in country music (even if it often appears more that he’s the exception which proves the disturbing rule), he’s not the kind of artist who ever […]
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