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Tennessee Ernie Ford

The booming baritone voice of Tennessee Ernie Ford was most widely known for his 1955 cover of Merle Travis’ grim coal-mining song “Sixteen Tons,” watered straight down from the dulcet strains of the Hollywood studio orchestra but retaining its innate seriousness because of the sheer power of Ford’s singing. But …

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