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Sue Richards

Martin Hawkins, Country Music People, November 1974

IT WAS 1 a.m. on a Sunday morning in Nashville. We were driving slightly unsteadily on Broad Street – a strangely empty scene since the Opry moved to the extremities of town. The car radio was playing middle Country Music of often debateable quality, but occasionally, as now, a record of greater distinction would be played, almost as if by accident.

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