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Hank Thompson was possibly the most popular American swing musician from the ’50s and ’60s, keeping the design alive using a top-notch music group, tremendous showmanship, and a flexibility that allowed him to expand his repertoire into intimate ballads and hardcore honky tonk quantities. Born Sept 3, 1925, in Waco, …

Within the ’70s, Roy Clark symbolized country music within the U.S. and overseas. Between guest-hosting for Johnny Carson within the Tonight Display and carrying out to packed homes within the Soviet Union on the tour that sold-out all 18 concerts, he utilized his musical skill and his amusing personality to …

Along with his laid-back, straightforward vocals and large, imposing build, Don Williams had become referred to as “the Gentle Giant.” That nickname was bestowed on him in the first ’70s, when he started a string of countrypolitan strikes that ran in to the early ’90s. Williams was by no means …

Freddy Fender was mostly of the Hispanic famous actors in nation music, a singer and songwriter whose function was described largely by its solid Latin sensibility. Delivered Baldemar Huerta to a family group of migrant laborers in San Benito, TX, on June 4, 1937, Fender started playing electric guitar early …