Fans Will Praise You, Scold

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.

No One Had Ever Told Me That Whites Were Supposed To Sing One Kind Of Music And Blacks Another - I Sang What I Liked In The Only Voice I Had.

I Always Wanted To Grow Up Fast. I Longed For More Than The Mississippi Delta Could Give.

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.

Early In My Career I Began Receiving Letters From A Woman In The Midwest Who Claimed To Be My Mother.