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

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway.

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.

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

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

How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?

People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.