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Bostonia Ballroom, which hosted Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash, will be revived for tribute concert near San Diego

Bostonia Ballroom, which hosted Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash, will be revived for tribute concert near San Diego

Best-known for gracing the pedal steel chair in Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, Asleep at the Wheel, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Bobby Black is one of the greats at his chosen instrument and one of the last members of the first generation of players to introduce it to American music. And he is definitely the only member of that club who spent most of his life in Northern California, San Mateo to be specific.

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 with ambiguous morals who will break the law if the reward is having a good time”), historical ...