Word: acuff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wearing backless sequined tunics or rhinestone shirts. That fazed Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Chai Zemin not at all as he journeyed down to Nashville to learn about American country music at the source. Chai was feted by the who all's y'all of country. Roy Acuff sang about the Wabash Cannonball. Minnie Pearl taught him square dancin'. Johnny Cash gave the Ambassador his own guitar. Glamorous Barbara Mandrell did an impromptu duet with the envoy on banjo. Chai toasted mutual friendship, but he sashayed a diplomatic do-si-do around the hope behind the hoedown...
...school, John Prine. For five years and four albums, Prine has been hanging in there as a cult figure. He was pretty much the originator of A.C.--alternative country--the kind of bent-out-of-shape country music that comes easy if you had to grow up with Roy Acuff and Porter Waggoner and WSL-Nashville and Martha White biscuits and their goddamn commercials. The best of John Prine's songs are about what it is to grow up in and hate a rural town, hating Main Street and the Baptist preachers and Vietnam and racism, but alwasy coming back...
...Haggard well knows, a country singer must go forward, meeting and reflecting his public. Indeed, Haggard may still be belting it out in the 1990s, if the longevity of some of his older colleagues is any indication. Roy Acuff, dean of the Grand Ole Opry, is still going strong at 70. So are Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass, at 62, and Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy, at 55. "Country music fans are the most loyal there is," says Haggard. Besides, the open road, the one-night gigs, meeting people-all these make a way of life that Haggard would...
...helped open the $15 million home of the Grand Ole Opry. As 4,400 country music fans applauded, Nixon said that their kind of music "radiates the love of this nation?patriotism." He flubbed an attempt at spinning a Yo-Yo given him by Country Music Star Roy Acuff and played God Bless America and Happy Birthday on the piano to honor his wife Pat, just back from South America, on her 62nd birthday. In a relaxed evening, there was no talk of his Watergate agony...
...people playing with the Dirt Band are near-legendary--Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Earle and Randy Scruggs, Roy Acuff, Jimmy Martin, and so on. Vassar Clements, whose fiddling steals the show almost whenever he appears, reveals the clear distinction between a virtuoso fiddler and a fiddler who just moves his bow fast. Those like me, who have only begun listening to country music in earnest recently, will find this set a priceless introduction to the greats. Those initiated long ago may think of the collection as all of country music's all-time greatest hits...