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Tweet Photo: Jason Kempin | Getty Images for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Charley Frank Pride was a rare commodity. Not only was he an icon with universal appeal, but his six-decade career also embodied a strong message that many to this day still don't understand. He was living proof that being true to yourself and what you love is the highest form of cultural authenticity, and that country music — as much as music of any other tradition — belongs to everyone. Pride, who died Dec. 12 at 86 of complications from COVID-19, was the first Black superstar in country music...

Dennis Quaid is Working on a Movie About Charley Pride's Life Hollywood superstar, recording artist and recent The Charley Pride Story. "I tried to do a movie on Charley Pride years ago, and it just didn't go anywhere at the time," Quaid told Wide Open Country in a recent Jack Clement, who was a great mentor to Charley. So I got ahold of Charley and asked if I could just come and meet him in Dallas. I went and had Mexican lunch with he and his wife Rozene. This was before the pandemic. We got it up and running again."

Rockabilly great, 'Mona Lisa' hitmaker Carl Mann dead at 78 Bob Mehr, Memphis Commercial Appeal © Handout Rockabilly singer Carl Mann 1942-2020. Carl Mann was the “Last Son of Sun,” one of the final artists that Sam Phillips introduced to the world. A child prodigy from West Tennessee, Mann arrived in Phillips’ orbit at the end of the Sun Records founder’s golden run in the 1950s. The teenaged Mann would hit the charts with his galloping rockabilly redux of "Mona Lisa" in 1959. Mann died Wednesday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in Jackson, Tennessee. H...

Fabulous Flip Sides In Memoriam – Charley Pride Remembering country music legend Charley Pride with Bill Anderson and Naomi Judd Author: CMA Music Festival, 2018, photo by John Shearer/Contour, Getty Images On December 12, we lost Charley Pride at the age of 86 from COVID-19. The prior month, he performed and received the CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the 54th Annual Country Music Association Awards, hosted by Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker. Charley was a friend of Goldmine, participating in multiple interviews in recent years. In his 2014 Goldmine interview Charley ...

By Peter Cooper and Barb Hall Often referred to as the “Jackie Robinson of Country music,” merging the line between country music and baseball was a seamless transition for Charley Pride. Raised as less than a citizen in segregated Mississippi, Pride’s buttery voice and steely resolve earned him a place as one of American music’s most impactful artists. He landed in Nashville in 1963, the same year the Tennessee capital was the site of sit-ins and racial violence. Two years later, he was a major label recording artist in the otherwise lily-white country music field, and in short time ...