Updates

• Added info on Jimmy Ford, thanks to Volker Houghton. • Extended and corrected the post on Happy Harold Thaxton (long overdue), thanks to everyone who sent in memories and information! • Added information to the Jim Murray post, provided by Mike Doyle, Dennis Rogers, and Marty Scarbrough. • Expanded the information on Charlie Dial found in the Little Shoe post.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Tompall Glaser RIP

Country music singer, songwriter, producer and one of the "Outlaw" movement's pioneers Tompall Glaser died August 13, 2013, at the age of 79. Born in Nebraska, Glaser started his musical career with his two brothers as "Tompall & the Glaser Brothers." They first recorded for Marty Robbins' Robbins label and later also toured with Robbins as well as Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and others. By 1970, they had opened their own studio in Nashville. Glaser was also featured on country music's first million selling album "Wanted: The Outlaws" that also included material by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Jessi Colter.

Read more at hillbilly-music.com.

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