Answering your messages and comments with audio from previous episodes. Topics include media coverage of funerals, the gentrification of Austin, Dolly Parton, the Black National Anthem, film remakes, Elvis, and pursuing your childhood dreams. Features music by Radford Ellis from his album Lonely Blue Boy.
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Country music, Professor Don Cusic, Nashville – WOAE004
Don Cusic is Curb Professor of Music Industry History at Belmont University in Nashville. He’s been in the music business for 45 years as a journalist, record producer, artist manager and songwriter. Don explains the development of the Nashville Sound and discusses country stars Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Roger Miller, Dolly Parton, Keith Urban and others and he shares what it was like working with Roy Orbison at Monument Records.