Dave Styer

The Toil And The Oil That Fueled The Bakersfield Country

"Anybody can be a Cowboy"

Country Singer, Actor, and an all American bad ass.

The hairdresser turned glittering country superstar

Always puts a tear in my beer.

Mandrell toured at age 13 with Cline, Johnny Cash, and George Jones.

In the '60s, disc jockeys from some country radio stations thought Conway Twitty was a rock and roll singer -- not a country singer, so they refused to play his songs.

Before the Beatles made it to the States, inspiring teenagers across the country to form bands, an otherwise typical love ballad by Robbins accidentally introduced the listening public to electric guitar "fuzz" effects. That song is called "Don't Worry"

Gene Autry was often portrayed in the comics, primarily during the heyday of Western-themed comics, the 1940s and 1950s.

Whitman was a self-taught left-handed guitarist, though he was right-handed. He had lost almost all of the second finger on his left hand in an accident while working at a meat packing plant.

It's a t-shirt. A Junior Brown t-shirt

Bob Dylan hated Tom T. Hall. That's cool...we hate Dylan.

Tubb joined the Grand Ole Opry in February 1943 and put together his band, the Texas Troubadours.

It wasn't God who made Honky Tonk angels.

Paycheck’s claim to fame was that he once fought Joe Louis in Chicago for the heavyweight title (he lost).

An FBI report claims: "It was alleged Denver was pretty well strung out on cocaine,"

Deford Bailey was the first performer to be introduced on the Grand Ole Opry and the first African-American performer on the show.

Country music radio stations often refused to play Loretta's music, banning nine of her songs, but Lynn pushed on to become one of country music's legendary artists.

When Cash needed to escape from life, he and his first wife Vivian would get in his camper and take off to the desert where he would go on week long amphetamine binges. Cash named the camper “Jesse James” after the outlaw, and he gave it a paint job to match his personal aesthetic.

Kristofferson once landed a helicopter on Cash's lawn to catch his attention.

David Allan Coe claims he taught Charles Manson how to play guitar while they were both in prison together.

Stoney Edwards never made it to the big time, yet he and his soulful honky tonk sound had a devoted following, and he was one of the few African-American performers to try his hand in the genre.

Milsap, in fact, became the first country music artist to be played in full rotation on the rock music channel MTV with his 1984 single "She Loves My Car."

Kenny Rogers earned his nickname of the Gambler in the wake of his 1978 hit of the same name.