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DeFord Bailey ~ Pan American Blues

DeFord is one of the first black "Hillbilly" music stars, long before the later "Country & Western" Charlie Pride. He performed for years at the Grand Old Opry. If you're interested, this is a good book about him.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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