“LIVE FAST, LOVE HARD, DIE YOUNG” — 55 YEARS OLD Faron Young achieved his first number one Billboard hit this week in 1955. It was a busy year. He had become the Young Sheriff with his Country Deputies in May, he was getting ready to go to Hollywood to make his first movie, Hidden Guns, […]
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MANUSCRIPT UPDATE I emailed the completed manuscript of Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins last week and received this response from the editor: “I’ve read your Marty Robbins manuscript with pleasure and am sending it out to two readers for formal assessment. I anticipate having their comments back by midsummer. Thanks for your […]
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OFFICE OF MARTY ROBBINS In 1968 Marty Robbins considered tearing down the two-and-a-half-story house that served as his office at 713 18th Avenue South in Nashville. He hired an architect to prepare preliminary sketches for a three-story office building but eventually chose to build a one-story addition at the rear of the old house. Lucy […]
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NASHVILLEThere are no words to express what is happening in Nashville right now. Here’s a photo from the Internet showing the flooding inside the Opry House. The stage is under water. The Grand Ole Opry museum next door must also be under water–the one place we could go to visualize Marty Robbins sitting at his […]
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MAN OF THE DECADE – Forty Years Ago Three months after his triple-bypass heart surgery, Marty Robbins attended the fifth annual Academy of Country and Western Music awards banquet, held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on April 13, 1970. There he received the ACM’s first “Man of the Decade” trophy, for the decade […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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FARON YOUNG’S BIRTHPLACE Faron was born in a little two-bedroom rental house on Hoadley Street in Shreveport, Louisiana, on February 25, 1932. The family soon moved around the corner to Seymour Street. Here’s a photo of the corner of Seymour and Hoadley today. The pole is in the location where Faron’s house stood. Well, I […]
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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. Today I completed the first draft of Marty’s biography–30 chapters. I’ll take […]
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Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 9 June 2010
“LIVE FAST, LOVE HARD, DIE YOUNG” — 55 YEARS OLD Faron Young achieved his first number one Billboard hit this week in 1955. It was a busy year. He had become the Young Sheriff with his Country Deputies in May, he was getting ready to go to Hollywood to make his first movie, Hidden Guns, […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 19 May 2010
MANUSCRIPT UPDATE I emailed the completed manuscript of Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins last week and received this response from the editor: “I’ve read your Marty Robbins manuscript with pleasure and am sending it out to two readers for formal assessment. I anticipate having their comments back by midsummer. Thanks for your […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 12 May 2010
OFFICE OF MARTY ROBBINS In 1968 Marty Robbins considered tearing down the two-and-a-half-story house that served as his office at 713 18th Avenue South in Nashville. He hired an architect to prepare preliminary sketches for a three-story office building but eventually chose to build a one-story addition at the rear of the old house. Lucy […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 5 May 2010
NASHVILLEThere are no words to express what is happening in Nashville right now. Here’s a photo from the Internet showing the flooding inside the Opry House. The stage is under water. The Grand Ole Opry museum next door must also be under water–the one place we could go to visualize Marty Robbins sitting at his […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 14 April 2010
MAN OF THE DECADE – Forty Years Ago Three months after his triple-bypass heart surgery, Marty Robbins attended the fifth annual Academy of Country and Western Music awards banquet, held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on April 13, 1970. There he received the ACM’s first “Man of the Decade” trophy, for the decade […]
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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 […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 24 March 2010
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 […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 10 March 2010
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 […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 17 February 2010
FARON YOUNG’S BIRTHPLACE Faron was born in a little two-bedroom rental house on Hoadley Street in Shreveport, Louisiana, on February 25, 1932. The family soon moved around the corner to Seymour Street. Here’s a photo of the corner of Seymour and Hoadley today. The pole is in the location where Faron’s house stood. Well, I […]
Faron Young and Marty Robbins newsletter — 10 February 2010
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. Today I completed the first draft of Marty’s biography–30 chapters. I’ll take […]