Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.
People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.
It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.
Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.
Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.