By Mark Mills By the spring of 1942, the tiny island of Malta, located south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, is the most bombed patch of ground in the world. Pounded incessantly by German and Italian warplanes, the Maltese are losing confidence in the power of Great Britain to protect its colony. Loyalists who […]
This periodic newsletter commemorates the lives of Faron Young and Marty Robbins. Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story was published in 2007 by the University of Illinois Press, and the publication goal for Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins is 2012. Thanks to Gary Presley for reviewing the manuscript; I’m now cutting words […]
FIRST RECORDING SESSIONS FOR FARON YOUNG AND MARTY ROBBINS Faron Young’s first Capitol recording session took place at the Castle Studio in Nashville’s Tulane Hotel on March 1, 1952. Faron hadn’t yet moved from Shreveport to Nashville. Sidemen included Floyd Cramer on piano and Jimmy Day on steel guitar, with Ken Nelson as producer. “Have […]