“Country music — it's just about time for it to stop being used as a whipping boy. It's a good music. It's the basic music of America, I believe, combined with all the rest of categories that we have — jazz, blues, you name it. Like jazz has been kicked and blues has been kicked. Then it feeds down into the ethnic groups and you start slicing it up. So all that is happening now is a combination of things starting to jell. It's all one ball of wax to me.” — Charley Pride
Read MoreIt was the early 70s, before there were laws about kids and seat belts and things like that, so when I went with my mom to run errands, I had to slide onto the bench seat in the front and if that seat was too hot from baking in the sun, I would kind of hover of the seat for a few minutes before lowering myself on it. If you know, you know. My view on these drives was the car radio, which was AM only but had these big silver knobs, one for tuning and one for volume. There were 5 or 6 push button presets and I was not allowed to touch any of this but the power my mom had, a twist of the dial here, a push of the button there and boom there she was…the soft rock queen, Olivia Newton-John.
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