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“If it sounds country man, that’s what it is,” he says to open his recording of the track. “It’s a country song.” — T.D. “Lovesick Blues” became Hank Williams’ first No. 1 on ...

Mr. Rodriguez listened to mariachi groups as well as country music, gravitating toward the wry storytelling and lyricism of Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams and Merle Haggard. “It was just like the ...

“Randy was born to sing real, honest-to-God country music,” says Lehning, his producer. “He has an old soul’s voice, and he’s a direct line from Hank Williams Sr. to Lefty Frizzell to Merle Haggard ...

The site said Tommy’s music career began playing with Hank Williams Jr. before he signed ... Jo-El Sonnier might not be a name that most fans of modern country music would know well but read ...

He also played piano for Hank Williams Jr.’s Bama Band for more ... Jo-El Sonnier might not be a name that most fans of modern country music would know well but read up and it doesn’t take ...

The first popular Mexican American country ... Mex music into his arrangements, Mr. Rodriguez tended to work in the unreconstructed honky-tonk vein of his heroes Merle Haggard and Lefty Frizzell.

The hard-luck anthem “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” mixed wanderlust with a broken heart, while “That’s the Way Love Goes” found him interpreting Lefty Frizzell’s sublime ballad a decad ...

Most of his music was similar to songs performed by Merle Haggard and Lefty Frizzell, or, as the Times said, “unreconstructed honky-tonk.” “I was drawn to country music because I could ...

Rodriguez’s honky-tonk instincts owed to Merle Haggard and Lefty Frizzell (Rodriguez sent ... Describing his cultural relationship to country music, Rodriguez told Ken Burns in a PBS documentary ...