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Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys were a major influence on the music of Asleep at the Wheel during its formative years. According to frontman Ray Benson, the band was initially "pretty primitive ... playing hippie-country-western-rock", before he heard Merle Haggard's tribute to Wills, A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or, My Salute to Bob Wills), which was released in ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The Fifth Congress established the new county on December 17, 1840, and named it after Mirabeau B. Lamar, [5] who was the first vice president and the second president of the Republic of Texas. Paris, Texas in 1885. Lamar County was one of the 18 Texas counties that voted against secession on February 23, 1861. [6]
In 1916, a devastating fire destroyed most of Paris' downtown area, including the newspaper office and all records. Sayers continued as publisher until early April 1920, when he sold the paper the North Texas Publishing Company, whose principal shareholders were Paris business people – Harry Thomas Warner (1870–1925), former managing editor ...
The Lamar County Historical Museum is a local history museum that documents Lamar County, Texas, and its county seat, Paris. It is located on West Kaufman Street in an area of Paris known as Heritage Park, where it is situated immediately south of Heritage Hall. [1] [2] The museum is operated by the Lamar County Historical Society. [3]
William Orville "Lefty" Frizzell (March 31, 1928 – July 19, 1975) was an American country and honky-tonk singer-songwriter. [1]Frizell is known as one of the most influential country music vocal stylists of all time.
Haggard was born in La Porte, Indiana. He received his B.S. (1914) and M.D. (1917) from Yale University. [1] In 1917 he worked as a physiologist for the United States Bureau of Mines. [2] During World War I he was a captain in the Chemical Warfare Service in the United States Army.
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