ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

When there is more than one credit for a page, the images will be listed clockwise from top left.

ABBREVIATIONS

Cash and Carter Family Photos

Cash and Carter Family Photos courtesy of John Carter Cash, Cash Cabin Enterprises, LLC

Cash Family Photos

Cash Family Photos courtesy of Rosanne Cash, Kathy Cash Tittle, Cindy Cash, Tara Cash Schwoebel

CMHoF

Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum

GAE

Gene Autry Entertainment

GI

Getty Images

GOO

Grand Ole Opry Archives

JRP

Jimmie Rodgers Properties I.L.P.

Leverett Coll. / GOO

Les Leverett Collection courtesy Grand Ole Opry Archives

Leverett / GOO

Photograph by Les Leverett courtesy Grand Ole Opry Archives

McGuire / GOO

Jim McGuire Collection courtesy Grand Ole Opry Archives

MSA

Marty Stuart Archives / Congress of Country Music, Philadelphia, Mississippi

NPLSC

Nashville Public Library, Special Collections

SMA

Sony Music Archives

UNC

Wilson Special Collections Library, Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ENDPAPERS

1 GI 635930943 Corbis Historical/David Turnley

2 GOO

FRONTMATTER

3 Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsc-00252

4 Leverett/GOO

5 Danielle Osfalg

6 John Doubler Collection

7 courtesy Ricky Skaggs

8 Kern County Museum/used by permission

9 ©The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California

10 GOO

11 MSA

12 Charles Wolfe Collection

CHAPTER 1

13 CMHoF

(14 l t-b) Greg French Early Photography; Beinecke Library, Yale University 2002047; (14 r both) Jim Bollman Collection

15 UNC 20001_pf0371_01_0001

16 UNC 20001_pf0849_01_0001; CMHoF

17 JRP; Marshall Wyatt, Old Hat Records

18 CMHoF

19 Princeton Theological Seminary Library

20 Danny and Bobby Ricketts; Bluefield Daily Telegraph Feb 17 1925

21 kansasmemory.org State Historical Society 451054

22 Doris Ulmann Foundation, Berea College courtesy International Center of Photography

23 West Virginia and Regional History Center, WVU Libraries 037659; Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

24 Library of Congress LC-DIG-pga-03164

25 Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1935.301.3/T1995-1; Kinney Rorrer

26 Library of Congress LC-USZ62-46758; Robert K. Oermann Photo Archive; California Historical Society Coll. at USC CHS-915

27 Foster Hall Coll., Center for American Music, U. of Pittsburgh

28 Jim Bollman Collection; African-American Sheet Music Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University; BenCar Archives

29 Library of Congress LC-USZC4-10004; Jim Bollman Collection; Library of Congress LC-USZ62-107659

30 UNC 20001_PF2013_01_0001

31 Jim Bollman Collection; kansasmemory.org State Historical Society 208349

32 Scott Childers, WLSHistory.com

33 Library of Congress LC-USZ62-35069; GOO

34 GOO

35 Leverett Coll./GOO

36 Macon-Doubler Family Collection; Leverett Coll./GOO

37 courtesy Craig Havighurst; GI 529490126 Corbis Historical

38 GOO

39 Leroy Troy

40 Georgia State University Library, Special Collections, WSB Radio Records M004_0034

41 Variety Dec 29 1926 p1; Hooks Bros–Memphis ©Delta Haze Corp/All rights reserved/Used by permission; Library of Congress Okeh Race Records Form 2566

42 Archives of Appalachia, East TN State U., Stoneman Family Papers; Bristol Historical Association

43 UNC Archie Green Papers; Birthplace of Country Music, gift of Denise Smith

44 Carter Family Museum, Rita Forrester

45 Leverett Coll./GOO

46 SMA; Tony Russell Collection

47 Jimmie Rodgers Foundation, Inc.; JRP

48 JRP

49 Jimmie Rodgers Foundation, Inc.

50 SMA; Jimmie Rodgers Foundation, Inc.

51 JRP; (52) C.F. Martin & Co. Archives

53 JRP

(54) (55) JRP; Variety Jan 8 1930; Louis Armstrong House Museum 1987.14.53

56 JRP

57 Jimmie Rodgers Foundation, Inc.

58 Carter Family Museum, Rita Forrester

59 Smith Family

60 Cash and Carter Family Photos; Carter Family Museum, Rita Forrester

61 JRP

62 Nolan Porterfield Collection; “The Carter Family Visits Jimmie Rodgers” by A.P. Carter ©1931 Peer International Corp., copyright renewed/used by permission/all rights reserved, courtesy Crossroads of Music Archive and Southwest Coll., Texas Tech University

63 Nolan Porterfield Collection

64 JRP

65 “T.B. Blues” by Jimmie Rodgers and Raymond E. Hall © 1931 Peer International Corp., copyright renewed/used by permission/all rights reserved, courtesy Crossroads of Music Archive and Southwest Coll., Texas Tech University; JRP

66 JRP

CHAPTER 2

67 Library of Congress LC-DIG-fsa-8a36111

68 Library of Congress LC-DIG-fsa-8b21509

69 Library of Congress LC-DIG-fsa-8b38113

70 San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library AAK-0435; Oakland Tribune Apr 11 1933 p3

71 Arhoolie Foundation; Woody Guthrie Archive/Woody Guthrie Center, Tulsa, OK

72 Library of Congress LC-DIG-ds-00832; Marshall Wyatt, Old Hat Records; scan from original

73 Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives/Southern Music & Radio Collection

74 Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives/John Lair Papers; UNC 20001_pf2454_0001

75 GOO; Scott Childers, WLSHistory.com; Berea College Southern Appalachian Archives/John Lair Papers

76 GAE

77 GAE; GAE courtesy Autry Museum, Los Angeles T87-36-35

78 Robert K. Oermann Photo Archive; GAE courtesy Autry Museum, Los Angeles T94-11-111-2

79 GI 104714944 Archive Photos; Douglas B. Green Collection; Old State House Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas 1996.017.48

80 GAE

81 Douglas B. Green Collection; Alamy Everett E5NNYT, E5NHHK

82 Douglas B. Green Collection

83 GI 74253056 Michael Ochs Archives

84 GAE Research Binder; GI 128008506 Archive Photos

85 Cash and Carter Family Photos

86 Cash and Carter Family Photos; BenCar Archives

87 scan from original; “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” by A.P. Carter ©1935 Peer International Corp., copyright renewed/used by permission/all rights reserved, courtesy University of South Carolina, Music Library, Claude Casey Coll., Box 7 Folder 2

88 N. M. “Billy” Bays, Jr.; Carter Family Museum, Rita Forrester

89 Carter Collection, Flo Wolfe

90 Carter Family Museum, Rita Forrester

91 Estate of Bob Wills courtesy Charles Townsend

92 Crossroads of Music Archive and Southwest Coll., Texas Tech U.

93 Hank DeVito; Estate of Bob Wills courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society

94 Oklahoma Historical Society P2011-025-087

95 Oklahoma Historical Society P2011-025-010

96 scan from original

97 Margaret Ann Craig Robinson

98 Peggy Motley Collection courtesy Ruth and Roy Cunningham; GOO

99 Peggy Motley Collection courtesy Ruth and Roy Cunningham; Leroy Troy

100 Leroy Troy

101 David Morton; Crossroads of Music Archive and Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University

102 GOO; CMHoF

103 The Estate of Roy Neill Acuff; GOO

104 CMHoF

105 James Monroe/Monroe-Vandiver Family Collection; CMHoF; courtesy Roger Givens

106 CMHoF

107 Ken Spain Photograph Collection

108 GOO

109 Mary Beth Pruett; GOO; Belmont University 1932 Milestones

110 GOO; NPLSC; GOO

111 GAE courtesy Autry Museum, Los Angeles T87-36-6018-2-2; GAE BIO_273; GAE Champion Binder 1

112 Oklahoma Historical Society 21412.B36.69

113 CMHoF; Kent Archives

114 Dennis Wile; David Morton courtesy NPLSC

115 The LIFE Collection, Eric Schaal/GI 3054844, 50947780, 50472029

116 Thomas Sims Archives; Hawkshaw Hawkins Family Collection; GAE courtesy Autry Museum, Los Angeles T87-36-3920

117 GOO; courtesy Stephen Parry

118 GOO

119 Estate of Bob Wills courtesy Charles Townsend

120 Life Magazine Jun 28 1948 courtesy GAE; GAE; GI 3207403 Hulton Archive

121 Oklahoma Historical Society P2011-025-062; Estate of Bob Wills courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society

122 Lorrie Carter Bennett Collection; Vicki Langdon Collection

123 Ed Clark Collection

124 CMHoF; GOO

CHAPTER 3

125 Leverett Coll./GOO

126 Library of Congress LC-DIG-fsac-1a34090

127 Ray Sczepanik/Texas Top Hands Band, San Antonio, TX

128 Ken Spain Photograph Collection

129 JRP; Ronnie Pugh

130 Ronnie Pugh; Library of Congress LC-GLB23-0873

131 Bob Grannis/grannisphotography.com; GOO

132 MSA black binder 4; MSA lyrics/corr. lg gray box Ephemera 1 2017.021

133 MSA black binder 4

134 MSA black binder 3

135 Bear Family box set/Tubb Walking the Floor Over You; Mitch Diamond/kardboardkid.com

136 Leroy Troy

137 GOO

138 The Estate of Eddy Arnold notebook 1; Richard Weize/and more bears

139 GOO; The Estate of Eddy Arnold

140 CMHoF

141 GOO

142 Mitch Diamond/kardboardkid.com; CMHoF

143 Joshua Rinkel; Leverett Coll./GOO

144 Leverett Coll./GOO

145 Arhoolie Foundation

(146 t-b) Glenn E. Mueller; Scotty Broyles photo/©Deke Dickerson Photo Archive; Glenn E. Mueller; Thomas Sims Archives

147 Bear Family box set/Dickens Country Boy

148 Leverett Coll./GOO

149 courtesy Dane and Del Bryant

150 Leverett Coll./GOO; courtesy Jimmy Key

151 MSA black binder 1

152 MSA lyrics/corr. lg gray ephemera box 3 2017.153, box 3 2017.0156, box 1, box 3 2017.153

153 Ken Campanile; MSA lg gray box ephemera 4 2017.0109 (B), used by permission from Sony/ATV Music Publishing; MSA

154 Kent Archives courtesy MSA Williams black binder 1

155 Ken Spain Photograph Collection

156 CMHoF; Robert F. Menasco

157 The LIFE Collection, Eric Schaal/GI 72384760

158 Jimmie Rodgers Snow; Bear Family box set/Snow The Yodelling Ranger

159 Bob Grannis/grannisphotography.com

160 Cash and Carter Family Photos

(161 ) Chet Atkins Family; Vicki Langdon Collection; Bob Grannis/grannisphotography.com

162 Leverett Coll./GOO

163 scan from original, used by permission from Sony/ATV Music Publishing; MSA black binder 5

164 Dana Blevins Russ; (164 r both) Lomax Photo Archives

165 MSA; MSA black binder 1

166 CMHoF; MSA black binder 3; MSA black binder 4

167 MSA; scan from original, used by permission from Sony/ATV Music Publishing

168 scan from original, used by permission from Sony/ATV Music Publishing; scan from original

169 GOO; Bob Grannis/grannisphotography.com

170 Thomas Sims Archives

171 Leverett Coll./GOO; CMHoF

172 MSA black binder 4

173 CMHoF; Dr. Dennis Hickey, Missouri State University

174 MSA black binder 3; photo by John E. Kuhlman courtesy Sue Morris

175 Colin Escott

176 Mitch Diamond/kardboardkid.com; Akron Beacon Journal Jan 29 1953 p37

177 MSA red binder funeral

CHAPTER 4

178 Leverett/GOO

179 CMHoF; Ken Spain Photograph Collection

180 Bill Anderson; GI 535084507 Teenie Harris Archive/Carnegie Museum of Art

181 Cash Family Photos; courtesy Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, WA 2001.306.2

182 Cash and Carter Family Photos

183 Cash Family Photos; MSA lg gray box MS 1A 2014.0415

184 Cash Family Photos

185 (185 t all) Sam Phillips Family; (185 b l-r) GI Michael Ochs Archives 73908040, 74259045

186 Sam Phillips Family

187 Sam Phillips Family; Kent Archives courtesy Colin Escott

188 Opal Walker; Cash and Carter Family Photos

189 Cash Family Photos

190 scanned reproduction; GI 74254323 Michael Ochs Archives

191 Oklahoma Historical Society; UNC 20484_36-01_0001

192 Sam Phillips Family

193 Wanda Jackson; Oklahoma Historical Society P2011-025-067

(194) GI Michael Ochs Archives 74290665, 74290666, 74290667, 74290671; (195) MSA black binder 2; (196) Kent Archives

197 Cash Family Photos; Leverett Coll./GOO

198 CMHoF; SMA

199 Leverett Coll./GOO

200 Thomas Sims Archives

201 GOO

202 Marty Robbins Family; Leverett Coll./GOO; Sony/ATV Music Publishing courtesy Vanderbilt University Special Collections, Grand Ole Opry Coll.; MSA/photo by Hilda Stuart

203 Leverett Coll./GOO

204 GI 521923659 CMHoF/Elmer Williams; (204 other three) Dane and Del Bryant/courtesy CMHoF

205 NPLSC Banner Archives BP Bradley 3-10-1955; GOO

206 Owen Bradley Family Collection; GOO

207 Mel Tillis Family courtesy Doris Y. Tillis

208 Kent Archives; Alamy CE5J20 Pictorial Press

209 Kent Archives courtesy Bill Anderson

210 Celebrating Patsy Cline, Inc.; Patricia Patterson Brannon

211 Patsy Cline Enterprises

212 CMHoF; Elmer Williams photo/source unknown; Brenda Lee and Ronnie Shacklett; GI 74291272 Michael Ochs Archives; (212 next two) Brenda Lee and Ronnie Shacklett; Kent Westberry; (212 center) Brenda Lee and Ronnie Shacklett

213 Billboard Jul 20 1959

214 Personal Collection of Waylon Jennings; James McCool and Sevan Garabedian

215 SMA; James McCool and Sevan Garabedian

216 SMA; Marty Robbins Family

217 GI 521920817 CMHoF/Elmer Williams

218 Cash Family Photos; SMA

219 Cash Family Photos; Guy Gillette; GI 524865670 Corbis Historical/Marvin Koner; SMA

220 MSA

221 California State Archives; Dane and Del Bryant/ledgers courtesy CMHoF

222 courtesy Dane and Del Bryant

223 CMHoF; Al Clayton Photography LLC/U. of North Carolina, Southern Historical Coll. 04859_0381_29A

224 CMHoF; Lana Nelson Collection; (224 next two) Willie Nelson courtesy Wittliff Collections, Texas State University

(225 (t both) Lana Nelson Collection; (226) Thomas Sims Archives

(226 l both) Willie Nelson and Friends Museum, Nashville; (226 r) scan from original

227 The Tennessean/Part of the USA TODAY Network

228 Colin Escott; GOO; Leverett Coll./GOO

229 Celebrating Patsy Cline, Inc.; Fred Foster Collection

230 Family of Jean Shepard and Hawkshaw Hawkins; Leverett Coll./GOO

231 Loretta Lynn Foundation dba Coal Miner’s Daughter Museum

232 Buck Owens Private Foundation; Loretta Lynn Foundation dba Coal Miner’s Daughter Museum

233 Loretta Lynn Foundation dba Coal Miner’s Daughter Museum; Leverett/GOO

234 Patsy Cline Enterprises; Leverett/GOO

235 Mario Munoz, used by permission from Sony/ATV Music Publishing

236 Donald Harvey

237 Leverett/GOO

238 The LIFE Collection, Bill Ray/GI 92925434

239 scan from original

240 Cash Family Photos

241 Thomas Sims Archives; Cash and Carter Family Photos

242 photo by Judy Mock/courtesy Cash and Carter Family Photos; SMA

243 Thomas Sims Archives; GOO

244 Harlan Howard and Melanie Howard Collection; (245 next two) Jan Howard; Patsy Cline Enterprises

246 GI 521919849 CMHoF/Elmer Williams; Dottie West Photographs courtesy Ron Harman

247 UNC 20484_pf1038_003; UNC 20484_pf1038_001; UNC 20484_pf1038_002

(248 l both) Gerald Holly Photographs courtesy GOO; (r) The Tennessean/Part of the USA TODAY Network

249 AP Images/Brian Calvert 6303091125, 6303091117

250 Leverett/GOO

251 scan from original; Family of Jean Shepard and Hawkshaw Hawkins

CHAPTER 5

252 GI 135992281 Premium Archive/David Gahr

253 unnamed source

254 ©Daniel Kramer

255 SMA; Dan Poush

256 El Paso Times/Part of the USA Today Network; The Thunderbolt Jan 1966 p2

257 Joe Lee/photo by Leon Kagarise

(258 first two) GOO; Leverett/GOO; photo by Richard Connors

259 Bill Anderson

260 Joe Lee/photo by Leon Kagarise

261 Colin Escott; scan from original

262 MSA; The LIFE Collection, Ralph Crane/GI 50329094

263 Jimmy Moore JMO182 neg 18A; (263 other two) GOO

264 Harold Bradley Collection; Jimmy Moore JMO261 neg 23; GOO; Billy and Charlene Sherrill, Cathy and George Lale; Jimmy Moore Vern Oxford neg 9; GOO; (264 center) Vicki Langdon Collection

265 Leverett/GOO

266 Leverett/GOO; Leverett Coll./GOO; GOO

267 Leverett/GOO

268 Homes of the Stars 1975; GOO

269 CMHoF; Thomas Sims Archives

270 The Estate of Eddy Arnold notebook 3

271 CMHoF; Buck Owens Private Foundation

(272 and 273) Buck Owens Private Foundation; (274) Judy Mock

275 Buck Owens Private Foundation courtesy Capitol Records; scan from original

276 Buck Owens Private Foundation

277 Leverett/GOO

278 NPLSC Banner Archives BP 1967 Jack Gunter; Leverett/GOO

279 Loretta Lynn Foundation dba Coal Miner’s Daughter Museum

280 Leverett/GOO

281 Jimmy Moore JMO131 neg 12A

282 ©Dr. Ernest C. Withers, Sr. courtesy Withers Family Trust BB95; Charley Pride Photo Archives

283 Monty Cowles Collection; Cowboy Jack Clement courtesy Niles and Alison Clement

284 GOO; Hope Powell Collection by Singleton/Curb; Mitch Diamond/kardboardkid.com; CMHoF

285 NPLSC Goodman Negs Owens Party 002; Jimmy Moore JMO160 neg 35A

286 Lillian Haggard Rea courtesy Gandulf Hennig

287 California State Archives; Lillian Haggard Rea courtesy Gandulf Hennig; Colin Escott

288 Capitol Records

289 NPLSC Banner Archives BP Haggard 1970 Bill Goodman; scan from original

290 Jimmy Moore JMO181 neg 34A; The Tennessean (Oct 1966)/Part of the USA TODAY Network

291 MSA/photo by Marty Stuart; MSA/photo by Hilda Stuart; Jeannie Seely Photographs courtesy Ron Harman

292 CMHoF; Dolly Parton

293 UNC 20245_pf0616_0001; Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State U./Everett Corbin; Leverett/GOO

294 SMA

295 scan from original

296 NPLSC Banner Archives BN 1968-2853-f1-27 Bill Goodman

297 Leverett/GOO; Cash Family Photos; Judy Mock; Leverett/GOO

298 SMA

299 ©Jim Marshall Photography LLC

300 GI 592162516 Mirrorpix/Charlie Ley

301 Cash and Carter Family Photos

CHAPTER 6

302 William E. McEuen

303 National Archives 530617/111-C-CC45804

304 John Cohen; photo by Carl Fleischhauer

305 John Cohen

306 MSA

307 Leverett Coll./GOO

308 Nancy Jones

(309) Nancy Jones; (310) Thomas Sims Archives

311 Colin Escott/Billboard May 18 1959; Joe Lee/photo by Leon Kagarise

312 CMHoF; Red Bay Museum/Scotty Kennedy; Donna Chapel; Red Bay Museum/Scotty Kennedy

313 Donna Chapel; Red Bay Museum/Scotty Kennedy

314 CMHoF; (321) SMA

315 SMA; Leverett/GOO

316 SMA

317 Bill Grimes courtesy SMA

318 Ted Polumbaum/Newseum Collection; SMA

(319 first two) David A. Hilliard Family; (320 other two) Pomona College Archives

321 Al Clayton Photography LLC/U. of North Carolina, Southern Historical Coll. 04859_0331_18, 04859_0366_22

322 Al Clayton Photography LLC 04859_10452_14; Al Clayton Photography LLC/U. of North Carolina, Southern Historical Coll. 04859_0339_14

323 Bobbie McKee Eden

324 ©Jim Marshall Photography LLC; SMA

325 The LIFE Collection, Michael Rougier/GI 50950250

(326 l all) Leverett/GOO; (326 r t-b) ©Jim Marshall Photography LLC; Roger Miller Music; Jimmy Moore JMO122 neg 18

327 ©Jim Marshall Photography LLC; Al Clayton photo, Bob Johnston Coll. di_11636/Dolph Briscoe Center, UT Austin

328 GI 170133856 CBS; GOO

329 GOO

(330 t-b) Stoney Edwards Collection; GOO; GI 887739680 Michael Ochs Archives; Ebony March 1970 pg 68

331 ©Jim Marshall Photography LLC

332 Al Clayton Photography LLC 04859_10086_19

333 ©Jim Marshall Photography LLC; GI 117069239 Disney ABC Television Group

334 GI 517322508 Bettmann

(335) (336) Jan Howard; scan from original

337 scan from original; photo by Carl Fleischhauer

338 MSA black binder 3

339 U. of North Carolina, N. Carolina Coll./Hugh Morton

340 Leverett/GOO

341 SMA

342 Lomax Photo Archives; CMHoF

343 John Reggero; Les Leverett

344 Alamy E5NC3X Everett; Jimmie Rodgers Snow

345 CMHoF

346 William E. McEuen

CHAPTER 7

347 Wood Newton; GI 111563534 WireImage/Paul Natkin; ©Jim Marshall Photography LLC; McGuire/GOO

348 MSA/photo by Hilda Stuart

349 MSA/photo by Hilda Stuart; MSA

350 Leverett/GOO

351 The Tennessean/Part of the USA TODAY Network; McGuire/GOO

352 NPLSC Banner Archives BN 1974-841-28 Bob Ray

353 McGuire/GOO; GOO

354 McGuire/GOO

355 Leverett/GOO

356 Clark Thomas

357 Slick Lawson; (358 other two) SMA

359 Alamy PNN04H Prod DB ©ABC-Paramount

(360) (361) SMA; Orlando Sentinel Apr 15 1969 p20; Billy and Charlene Sherrill, Cathy and George Lale

362 Leverett/GOO; John Reggero

363 Leverett/GOO

364 Guy Clark Family Collection; Jim McGuire courtesy Guy Clark Family Collection

365 Rodney Crowell; Guy Clark Family Collection

366 Rodney Crowell; Graham Leader, producer Heartworn Highways

367 Rice Family, cousins of Townes Van Zandt; Al Clayton Photography LLC 04859_10118_28A, 04859_10120_18

368 Marshall Fallwell Jr. courtesy Tom and Susan Fallwell; Ricardo Rodriguez and Melanie Clark

369 Ricardo Rodriguez and Melanie Clark; Estate of Alan L. Mayor and Theresa Mayor-Smith; NPLSC Banner Archives BN 1975-2087-f3-6 Don Foster

370 James Jennings Collection

371 Richard Weize/and more bears; Personal Collection of Waylon Jennings; SMA

372 Leverett/GOO; CMHoF

373 CMHoF; The Tennessean (Loftin Dec 1976)/Part of the USA TODAY Network; ©Jim Marshall Photography LLC

374 Scott Newton Archive

375 Sue & John Averill courtesy Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum; courtesy Ricky Skaggs

376 Tom Henderson courtesy Bluegrass Unlimited; Patrick J. Wood

377 Patrick J. Wood

378 Michigan State News May 3 1973 p9; Leverett/GOO

379 GI Redferns/Jim McCrary 85237442, 85351057; Autry Museum, Los Angeles T94-293-2

(380 first two) Emmylou Harris; ©Kim Gottlieb-Walker/www.lenswoman.com

381 Lily Hou

382 Alan Pogue; Steve Northup Photo Archive e_spn_0065/Dolph Briscoe Center, UT Austin; Scott Newton Archive

383 Personal Collection of Waylon Jennings; Dr. Dennis Hickey, Missouri State University/Micael Priest artist

384 ©Jim Marshall Photography LLC

(385 first two) Burton Wilson Photography; Scott Newton Archive; Clark Thomas

386 Shelly Katz; SMA

387 scan from original; Shelly Katz

388 Dan Reeder

389 Rodney Crowell; Dan Reeder

390 Dan Reeder

391 Dan Reeder; Guy Clark Family Collection; John Reggero; Dan Reeder

392 Leverett/GOO; McGuire/GOO

393 ©Jim Marshall Photography LLC; Burton Wilson Photography

394 CMHoF; SMA; Personal Collection of Waylon Jennings

395 Estate of Alan L. Mayor and Theresa Mayor-Smith; Personal Collection of Waylon Jennings

396 GI 1143765078 Corbis Historical/Wally McNamee; SMA

397 CMHoF

398 Thomas Sims Archives; Mitch Diamond/kardboardkid.com; UNC 20484_37-26_0001

399 GI 521920479 CMHoF/Elmer Williams; Thomas Sims Archives

400 UNC 20484_pf0037_0024_0001; John Reggero

401 C. V. Gouveia

402 (402 t) Leverett/GOO; (402 m l-r) Jett Williams and Kelly Zumwalt; GI 453934638 Getty Entertainment/David A. Smith; (402 b) Lawson Little

403 GI 2578269 Archive Photos/Picture Parade; (409 other two) Cash and Carter Family Photos

404 Cash Family Photos

405 Cash Family Photos; SMA; Alan Messer|www.alanmesser.com

406 Guy Clark Family Collection; Don Putnam courtesy Danny Fields

(407) (419) Bill Thorup courtesy MSA; Cash and Carter Family Photos; photo by Don Putnam courtesy Jim Free

408 Nancy Barr-Brandon

409 AP Images 7907231216/Tsugufumi Matsumoto

410 GI 139345506 Premium Archive/David Gahr; John Reggero; SMA

411 NPLSC Banner Archives BP Parton 1984 Oct 9 McCormick; courtesy NPLSC Banner Archives BP Parton 1980 Nov_02; NPLSC Banner Archives BP 1977 Apr

412 CMHoF

413 McGuire/GOO; Leverett/GOO

414 Lomax Photo Archives; McGuire/GOO

415 Leverett/GOO; SMA

416 Barbara Mandrell; Loretta Lynn Foundation dba Coal Miner’s Daughter Museum

417 John Reggero; CMHoF

418 Lomax Photo Archives; GI 174285540 Ron Galella Coll.

419 John Lomax III; WSMV-TV; Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 16 1978 p21

(420 t) John Lomax III; (420 other two) Clark Thomas

421 CMHoF

422 Alan Messer|www.alanmesser.com

423 Scott Newton Archive; SMA

424 Scott Newton Archive

(425 l-r) Alamy Paramount Pictures PY9W3P, Everett E5N0AY, E5MTMP, E5MFP4

CHAPTER 8:

426 Estate of Alan L. Mayor and Theresa Mayor-Smith

427 Lomax Photo Archives; Beth Gwinn

428 Cash Family Photos; Leverett/GOO

429 SMA; Hank DeVito; Alan Messer|www.alanmesser.com; From The Tennessean. ©1986 Gannett-Community Publishing. All rights reserved. Used under license.

430 photo by Larry G. Dixon courtesy Ricky Skaggs; Leverett/GOO

431 T. Hale; scan from original

432 Metro Nashville Archives/Jim Hagans Collection; (433 other two) courtesy Reba’s Business, Inc.

434 photo by Kenneth Springer courtesy Reba’s Business, Inc.; Estate of Alan L. Mayor and Theresa Mayor-Smith

435 Beth Gwinn; courtesy Reba’s Business, Inc.

436 The Judds Photographs courtesy Naomi Judd

437 The Judds Photographs courtesy Naomi Judd; CMHoF

438 Scott Newton photo courtesy Lomax Photo Archives; The Judds Photographs courtesy Naomi Judd

439 courtesy Dwight Yoakam; UNC 20484_38_09_0001

440 courtesy Dwight Yoakam; GI 74301727 Michael Ochs Archives

441 GI 486147837 Michael Ochs Archives; CMHoF; scan from original

442 Buck Owens Private Foundation

443 GI 477736942 Getty Entertainment/Gary Miller; scan from original

444 CMHoF

445 McGuire/GOO; GI 502487341 Toronto Star/Erin Combs; Alan Messer|www.alanmesser.com; GI 74280570 Michael Ochs Archives

446 Kathy Mattea; Estate of Alan L. Mayor and Theresa Mayor-Smith

447 CMHoF; Amy Kurland

448 Jon Vezner; Amy Kurland; photo by Ellen McDonald courtesy Kathy Mattea

449 Amy Kurland; McGuire/GOO

450 SMA; Vince Gill Archive; GOO

451 McGuire/GOO; Vince Gill Archive; AP Images 13050203782/Mark Humphrey

452 Amy Kurland

453 Amy Kurland; scan from original

454 Allen Reynolds

(455 t both) McGuire/GOO; (456 b) scan from original

457 Estate of Alan L. Mayor and Theresa Mayor-Smith

458 photo by Bill Thorup courtesy GOO; Beth Gwinn; Estate of Alan L. Mayor and Theresa Mayor-Smith

459) (460) Trisha Yearwood; (461) Estate of Alan L. Mayor and Theresa Mayor-Smith

462 GOO; Estate of Alan L. Mayor and Theresa Mayor-Smith

463 GOO; Cash Family Photos; CMHoF; SMA; UNC 20484_pf0057_0001; Ken Spain Photograph Collection

464 John Reggero; SMA; Thomas Sims Archives; GOO; Dan Reeder; Loretta Lynn Foundation dba Coal Miner’s Daughter Museum

465 Estate of Alan L. Mayor and Theresa Mayor-Smith

466 McGuire/GOO

467 Leverett/GOO; NPLSC Banner Archives BT 1991-1675-10 Steve Lowry

468 MSA/photo by Marty Stuart

469 GOO; MSA 59905 23A

470 Larry Busacca; SMA

471 Personal Collection of Waylon Jennings

472 MSA/photo by Marty Stuart; scan from original; Kevin Estrada Photography

473 Alan Messer|www.alanmesser.com

474 Daniel Coston/danielcoston.com; MSA black binder 2

475 Leverett/GOO

476 GI 458669384 Getty Entertainment/Terry Wyatt

477 John Cohen

478 GI 149380102 Premium/David Gahr

479 David Holt

AFTERWORD

480 The LIFE Collection, Eliot Elisofon/GI 897060114

481 scan from original, used by permission from Sony/ATV Music Publishing

482 Indianola High School 1967 yearbook courtesy Dayton Duncan; Dayton Duncan

483 scan from original

484 SMA

485 scan from original

486 Florentine Films photo by Jared Ames

BACKMATTER

487 Jean Laughton

488 GOO

489 Jon Evan Glaser/Images by Jon Evan

490 The LIFE Collection, Eliot Elisofon/GI 92935849

A country road in Cades Cove in East Tennessee

A father serenades his children with a country song.