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Article: Country road, take me home. (country-western music)(The Last Word)(Column)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- May 27, 1996
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If during the post-World War II and Korean War years you lived in a two-bit town or rural area -- almost anywhere outside a city -- you probably had a distinct opinion of what constituted music. And that would mostly mean country and western.
That would mean, too, that Hank Williams was your Mozart, with Tex Ritter, Roy Acuff, Lefty Frizzell and Hank Snow and his Rainbow Ranch Boys among those in the pantheon. The Grand Ol' Opry was a weekly highlight, piped from Nashville to the radio stations that stitched the cultural patches of America.
There was an asterisk recently in the newspapers for that generation. J.D. Miller, 73, died in Lafayette, La. His name ...