A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.
There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.