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Chet Atkins
Nashville's emergence as the center of country music recording in the late 1950s, and the development of the unique Nashville sound, helped to...
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James Thurber
Ohio-born satirical writer James Thurber was most noted for his ability to illustrate, through the use of humor, the frailties of human beings in a...
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Sherwood Anderson
Although Sherwood Anderson had a relatively brief literary career, publishing his first novel when he was forty years old, he has left an indelible...
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Merle Haggard
Country singer, songwriter and guitarist Merle Haggard was among the founders of the popular and distinctive "Bakersfield sound." While Nashville...
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Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
Bob Wills pioneered "western swing," an upbeat style of country music that had a lasting impact on the industry. Wills, who grew up in the cotton...
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The Masses
The Masses was a radical magazine published in New York between 1911 and 1917. Its contributors primarily were Greenwich Village intellectuals and...
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Willie Nelson
A legendary name in U.S. country music, and promoter of the more eclectic "Texas sound" that draws liberally on rock, blues, and folk motifs,...
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Charles E. Coughlin, Father
Long before the emergence of present-day radio "shock-jocks," Father Charles E. Coughlin, the "radio priest" of the 1930s, realized the power of...
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George Jones
Despite the trends that transformed country music over the second half of the twentieth century, George Jones continued to thrill audiences with...
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