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Oklahoma’s own Garth Brooks will receive Kennedy Center Honors this year.
The seven-time Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year is the third person from the Sooner State to earn the acclaimed recognition joining Reba McEntire and ballerina Maria Tallchief.
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The Tablet January 8, 2021
BAY RIDGE Who would have imagined that a sharecropper’s son with dreams of becoming a professional baseball player would ultimately become one of country music’s greatest entertainers?
Country Charley Pride, as he was affectionately called when starting out, would go on to earn 29 No. 1 hits on the country chart, 12 gold albums, be named the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year in 1971, become only the second African-American artist invited to join the Grand Ole Opry, and be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.
Pride’s incredible talent allowed him to break the color barrier in country music and become not only the most successful African-American performers in country music but one of the most successful performers in country music history.
The not-singing bird
With endless silence. David Olney
People say it was a poetic exit. I assure you, NOBODY wants to die onstage figuratively or literally. On Jan. 18, Americana pioneer, singer-songwriter, recording artist, pre-pandemic streamcaster, actor, and my longtime client and good friend David Olney died of an apparent heart attack midsong. He was center stage between Amy Rigby and Scott Miller at the 30A Songwriter Festival in the Florida panhandle. His last words: “I’m sorry.” His mantra, however, was, “Always be true to the song.”
Understanding the covenant between the audience and performer, David earned rapt attention from folks wondering how to classify what they were witnessing. Was it country? Folk? Blues? Vaudeville? Scottish newspaper