Making a career for yourself in country music is always hard. But I grew up in Tennessee in the sixties, my dad lived in Nashville at that time. This red-neck racism story they like to tell in Hollywood is way overblown. Lots of my family and friends were self-avowed red-necks and most of us liked Charlie Pride and were proud of Arthur Ashe, the Chattanooga Tennis star. My grandmother, who was in her 70s at the time, played his album often, particularly liking Green Green Grass of Home and Wings of a Dove. Don't believe everything you see on Hollywood. Tennessee wasn't anywhere near as racist in the 60s as the Democrats are right now.
Ahh that’s terrible. I listen to Charlie Pride Live at Panther Hall all the time. It’s one of my favorite albums of all time. :(
Aww sorry! He lived a long life and survived cancer and brain surgery RIP 😇
Talk about going against the grain. Making a career for yourself in Nashville as a black artist in the 60s could not have been easy. RIP Charlie.
Making a career for yourself in country music is always hard. But I grew up in Tennessee in the sixties, my dad lived in Nashville at that time. This red-neck racism story they like to tell in Hollywood is way overblown. Lots of my family and friends were self-avowed red-necks and most of us liked Charlie Pride and were proud of Arthur Ashe, the Chattanooga Tennis star. My grandmother, who was in her 70s at the time, played his album often, particularly liking Green Green Grass of Home and Wings of a Dove. Don't believe everything you see on Hollywood. Tennessee wasn't anywhere near as racist in the 60s as the Democrats are right now.