Ninety-seven years ago today, one of the greatest pedal steel players and most influential figures in country music history was born.
Forty-two years ago today, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson were at the top of the country albums chart with a collaborative classic.
In the world of country music, there are many disparate regional influences — think Red Dirt in Oklahoma, and of course, the Nashville sound — that influence the genre. But few have had the outsized ...