He died in 1975 in Borger, Texas. by Chester Rosson (April 1997) Vernon Dalhart’s 1924 recording for Victor of “The Prisoner’s Song” showed the young recording industry that Country music ...
Before it came to be celebrated and defined by the popular radio format known as Americana, country music shaped by folk music, rock and roll and the blues had no catchy name to distinguish it. The ...
Back in March, I asked Amanda Marie Martínez, a country music historian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, why Nashville seemed skittish about Beyoncé and “Texas Hold ’Em.” ...