Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 23 July 2008
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008This is a periodic newsletter on Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story, published last year by the University of Illinois Press, as well as progress on writing Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins.
INTERVIEWS
Thanks to Jody Nix for putting me in touch with Johnny Bush and to Tom Lipscombe for connecting me with Chuck Morgan. Johnny Bush considers himself “at the top of the list” of Marty Robbins fans. Johnny says, “He was the greatest entertainer that I ever witnessed.” Chuck Morgan accepted his Texas Rangers job offer in 1983 because he had reached the pinnacle of his Nashville career (1982 CMA Major Market Disc Jockey of the Year) and because Nashville was just not the same without Marty Robbins.
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