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Kris Kristofferson’s SUNDAY MORNIN’ COMIN’ DOWN

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Roger Miller’s THE MOON IS HIGH

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Buck Owens’s TOGETHER AGAIN

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Skeeter Davis’s “I Didn’t Cry Today”

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Commander Cody’s “Back to Tennessee”

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Tom T. Hall’s “That’s How I Got to Memphis”

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Tammy Wynette’s “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”

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Olivia Newton-John’s LET ME BE THERE

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George Jones’s “Walk through This World with Me”

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Johnny Cash and June Carter’s “Jackson”

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Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton’s “We Found It”

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Cathartic story telling, joy and pain, and a little genre-curiosity too…

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Merle Hazard, America’s Foremost Country Singer/Economist

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So talented, charismatic, and self-destructive!