MARTY ROBBINS SONG INTROS 
APRIL 21, 2018: I was a telephone guest of Bob Rudy, DJ at WIOV-FM in Pennsylvania, when he hosted his Classic Country internet show, “The Time Machine,” with Marty Robbins as his featured artist.

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE FAIR WITH SHERWIN LINTON
August 31, 2014 – Sherwin Linton invited me to be his guest at the South Dakota State Fair in Huron again this year. I talked about my Faron and Marty biographies. Complete with background fair noises, here’s my 15-minute speech:

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE FAIR WITH SHERWIN LINTON
August 30, 2013 – I was a guest of Sherwin Linton at the state fair in Huron during his Friday shows on the Centennial Stage. I talked about A Farm in the Hidewood and Navy Greenshirt at 10:45, Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story at 1:45, and Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins at 3:45. It was a great day.  Here are my three speeches, although somewhat difficult to hear because of background noise from the fair:
talking about myself
Talking about Faron Young
Talking about Marty Robbins

AMERICA’S OLD TIME COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME
August 28, 2013 – At the 38th annual Old Time Country Music Festival in LeMars, Iowa, I was inducted as the first biographer in the hall of fame there. Sherwin Linton nominated me, and here’s a photo of Sherwin and me with my award:

DAKOTA MIDDAY ON SOUTH DAKOTA PUBLIC RADIO
August 26,  2013 – I visited with Karl Gehrke, host of Dakota Midday, on South Dakota Public radio. http://listen.sdpb.org/post/marty-robbins-faron-young-biographer is the link to hear the interview. The moment of silence near the beginning is because “It’s Four in the Morning” didn’t get on the recording.

BELMONT AWARD FOR BEST COUNTRY MUSIC BOOK OF 2013
May 24, 2013 – Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins won the “2013 Best Book on Country Music Award” from Belmont University and the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. The award was presented to me at a luncheon during the International Country Music Conference at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Click on Belmont Country Music Book of the Year award to see a video of the presentation.

Perry Steilow and I were guests of Jeannie Seely backstage at the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday, May 25, 2013. We didn’t get our photo taken with her, though.

BOOKS AND BEYOND — INTERVIEW ON INTERNET TALK SHOW
March 13, 2013 – 7:00 pm Central – Bonnie Blose interviewed me on her Internet talk show, Books And Beyond. The edited interview is 58 minutes: BooksandBeyond-3-13-13

ARTICLE IN SIOUX FALLS ARGUS LEADER
April 22, 2012 – “The Navy was just the beginning”