Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 30 March 2011

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This periodic newsletter commemorates the lives of Faron Young and Marty Robbins. The University of Illinois Press published Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story in 2007 and is publishing Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins in the spring of 2012. The manuscript will be assigned to a copy editor in April. (Finally!)

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Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 16 March 2011

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FARON YOUNG ON SAINT PATRICK’S DAY 1970 The night I met Faron Young, he and the Country Deputies came to Sioux Falls as part of the Hap Peebles monthly Opry package show.  I walked downtown from Augustana College, stayed for both shows, and collected autographs. When Faron learned I planned to walk the three miles […]

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