WS Holland
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World Class drummer, WS Holland provided a steady beat and a sober hand for Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, on stage and off. A bear of a man with love in his heart, he tells us about his life on the road, from Jackson, TN.
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BBQ Saves Music's Heritage
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Aubrey Preston’s one-man mission to save America’s music culture, its historic buildings, shacks and stories is an international movement to provide an accurate guide for visitors from foreign lands.
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Deborah Allen - Memphis Girl
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Deborah Allen is a Memphis Girl who woke up one morning in Elvis’s bed with a dream to perform and then lived that dream. With major record deals she wrote and recorded in Nashville, New York and Los Angeles. She lives in Nashville, surrounded by friends, writers and performers. She’s married to Raymond Hicks.
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Muscian's Rights
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Dave Pomeroy, AFM Leader, named in 1991 Studio Musician of the Year, is a muscian's rights advocate.
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Puckett's Grocery
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Andy Marshall built a business from Tennessee’s most precious natural resource. It's a story of a grocery that became a restaurant that became an important music venue.
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Waylon Jennings - Never Say Die
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Richie Albright tells us about meeting, playing and sharing a musical ride with Waylon Jennings.
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Ricky Ray - A Tree Becomes a Guitar
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If you listened to Episode 6 you already heard how Ricky Ray came to music and came to Nashville from the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama. He tells us what he knows about the trees that become guitars and the guitars that become priceless classics of sound reproduction, and a guitar he bought for his friend from the same tree as Trigger. They end the episode by singing Ricky’s song old guitar.
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Ricky Ray -Granny's Angels
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Ricky Ray is an accomplished musician, living, writing, producing, and thriving in the music industry in Nashville, Tennessee. His first fuzzy memory is a guitar on his granny’s lap, being played slide with a butter knife.
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Carl Perkins
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The Perkins Brothers Band, was formed when Carl Perkins asked his brothers Jay and Clayton, to form a band with him in Jackson Tennessee. In this Episode Carl shares his childhood dream of success in music and his first meeting with Sam Phillips at Sun Records. When Carl met Elvis they discovered they shared a favorite music artist, Bill Monroe. You’ll hear a song from Carl that you’ve never heard performed live or on record, and you’ll get an insight into what made Carl Perkins… Carl Perkins.
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Sonny Throckmorton
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James Fron “Sonny” Throckmorton is an American country music singer songwriter. When he came to Nashville and signed with Tree Publishing (Sony ATV), he was fired after none of his songs became hits.
info_outlineJames Fron “Sonny” Throckmorton is an American country music singer songwriter who grew up in Texas. When he came to Nashville and signed with Tree Publishing (Sony ATV), he was fired after none of his songs became hits.
He returned to Texas, leaving his catalog of songs and demos behind, but within 9 months, 170 of this songs were recorded, were hits and he was rehired by Tree. Sonny has more than 1,000 of his songs recorded by various country singers. He’s a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and was awarded Songwriter of the Year for 3 consecutive years.
He credits Don Gant, who left Tree Publishing with creating an atmosphere where he and other songwriters could flourish.
Sonny tells us about growing up an evangelist’s son, riding from one revival to another. He remembers his first song and how it help show him how to write to touch the heart.