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.
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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