Old time country music singers

In MEMORY of GRANDPA JONES on his BIRTHDAY - Born Louis Marshall Jones, American banjo player and "old time" country and gospel music singer. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. October 20, 1913 – February 19, 1998 (strokes)

In MEMORY of BOXCAR WILLIE on his BIRTHDAY - Born Lecil Travis Martin, American country music singer-songwriter and air force personnel sergeant, who sang in the "old-time hobo" music style, complete with dirty face, overalls, and a floppy hat. "Boxcar Willie" was originally a character in a ballad he wrote, but he later adopted it as his own stage name. Sep 1, 1931 – Apr 12, 1999 (leukemia)

[caption id="attachment_24129" align="alignright" width="399"] Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, January 13, 1968. Photo by Jim Marshall via San Francisco Art...

On the lost, lonesome country-and-western highway, the veterans of hard times and heartbreak—think George Jones, Wynonna Judd, Lee Ann Womack, Merle Haggard—are making it through the night and telling tales with new talent such as Gretchen Wilson, Keith Urban, Julie Roberts, and Shooter Jennings. Honky-tonk angels and hillbilly heroes, ethereal or outlaw, these stars sing us back home.

You don???t need a lengthy exposition on the underdog grace of its humble Appalachian roots and its transparent threads of connection to American history, as deep as a seam of coal in a mountainside. You totally get the genre???s visceral sincerity so important to millennials, who in their relentless search for authenticity often find themselves grasping back to their Greatest Generation great-grandparents??? traditions for anchors.

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Dave Van Ronk and his trusty Gibson J-200 at a Newport Folk Festival afternoon workshop in 1964.

Waylon Jennings & Johnny Cash

John Hartford