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Column: Mickey Newbury: Train songs, romantic idealism and An American Trilogy
Ronda Rich
Ronda Rich
Perhaps you remember a line from Waylon Jennings’ career-making hit, “Luckenbach, Texas,” that tips the cowboy hat to “Hank Williams pain songs and Newbury train songs.”
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Column: FDR and the South helped each other out
Ronda Rich
Ronda Rich
Most admire Franklin D. Roosevelt, a crafty, pleasant, get-it-done type of President. He had been raised as an only child to his mother and father, though he had step-siblings. He was tremendously spoiled, but not in the way that turned him mean.
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