Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

Baseball got into my blood early and I worked harder at it than anything.