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Five decades ago, the former Beatle decamped to a Middle Tennessee farm. The rest is history.

On April 13, 1959, George Jones earned his first No. 1 single with White Lightning.

On April 13, 1959, George Jones earned his first No. 1 single with White Lightning.

On March 27, 1965, Roger Miller's King of the Road hit No. 1 on the country charts.

On March 27, 1965, Roger Miller's King of the Road hit No. 1 on the country charts.

Hargus “Pig” Robbins, one of country music’s most prolific session piano players and a key contributor to Bob Dylan’s landmark 196

A revered member of Nashville’s A-Team of studio musicians, he was a major contributor to Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde” album.

The Boot counts down Bill Anderson's Top 10 songs.

The Boot counts down Bill Anderson's Top 10 songs.

George Jones, in 1956, in Nashville.Photograph from Michael Ochs Archives / Getty “Nearly everybody is confused by their first interaction with a pinball machine,” Tyler Mahan Coe says, with his familiar declarative zeal, at the beginning of the long-awaited second season of his country-music-history podcast, “Cocaine & Rhinestones.” We hear the game’s bells, chimes, and thunks as Coe delves into pinball discourse (in old movies, “pinball is a signifier of people w...