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King Records Trivia: Maxi-Tweets

Fun Facts & Trivia — Top Tweets from King Records Month 2018 As with the previous piece (“King’s Jazz Legacy“), it seems silly to keep all this rich history from last year’s King 75th Anniversary tucked away in a file attachment. One year later, it has become increasingly obvious that

September 19, 2019 No Comments

"Squaws Along the Yukon"

Hank Thompson: Western Swing’s Dean of Diction

In my prior post about the Nashville Chowdown LP, I mentioned that back in the early 70s jazz singer Blossom Dearie‘s “exceptional annunciation” was being put to good use in the ‘Singing Rice-ipe’ radio ads. If Blossom Dearie had a male counterpart, that person would undoubtedly be Hank Thompson, whose

January 28, 2013 No Comments