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Dottie Western was probably one of the most successful, and controversial, performers to go up to popularity through the Nashville audio period; like her friend and coach Patsy Cline, West’s fights for identification and respect inside the male-dominated nation music hierarchy had been instrumental in allowing other woman artists to …

Born for the Fourth of July, Tony Toliver (created Charles Anthony Toliver) was raised in the tiny city of Richards, TX. In his early teenagers, Toliver performed bass and sang within the Piney Woods Quartet, a family group gospel group that gigged all over southeast Tx. By 18, he previously …