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The Country Music Unknown Legends Podcast John Mathis Jr.
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Fame can be a fickle friend. If you're lucky, it may give you 15 minutes in the spotlight before time moves on and you're forgotten by popular culture. The Country Music Unknown Legends Podcast highlights the lives and careers of artists and musicians from the late 40's and 50's who were on the cusp of breaking through to stardom. In fact, some had notable successes and achievements. Perhaps they just were born in the wrong decade or were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Either way, fame may have visited them briefly, but it didn't come to stay. Their contributions were valid and they lived their dream even if only for a moment in time.These are the unknown legends of Country Music.
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Doug Bragg
Doug Bragg's name caught my attention while looking through the Louisiana Hayride show line ups. He started appearing on Hayride shows in 1956 and continued into 1960, that was 4 years of Hayride appearances. Since I was not familiar with his name, I dug a little deeper and made Doug Bragg our Unknown Legend feature for this episode.
This podcast is brought to you by Nashville Skyline Digital.
John Mathis Jr is a Dove Nominated songwriter and music publisher. He is currently the manager and producer of the independent Nashville based record label, Nashville Skyline Music.
For more information on the host, visit his website: JohnMathisJr.com
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The Louisiana Hayride
Today's featured guest on the Country Music Unknown Legends Podcast is not a person or a place, it is more of an event. A phenomenon. The Louisiana Hayride.
It is possible you have heard the name, Louisiana Hayride, due to the recent popularity of the new Elvis movie. But it was more than just a show Elvis played at the beginning of his career.
For 12 years the Hayride impacted music far beyond its time of existence, the DNA of the Hayride still exists in artists today. And just think, it bordered on being forgotten in the 70's and early 80's.
Today we take a look at this the Hayride started and what made it a phenomenon.
This podcast is brought to you by Nashville Skyline Digital.
John Mathis Jr is a Dove Nominated songwriter and music publisher. He is currently the manager and producer of the independent Nashville based record label, Nashville Skyline Music.
For more information on the host, visit his website: JohnMathisJr.com
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Tommy Blake
Not all stories of artists or who musicians who almost made it have happy endings or a fun-fact twist at the end. That is the case in today's Unknown Legends podcast, as we take a look at some of the accomplishments of the artist/songwriter, Tommy Blake, driven to have a hit record, but always coming up short and ultimately meeting with a tragic end.
This podcast is brought to you by Nashville Skyline Digital.
John Mathis Jr is a Dove Nominated songwriter and music publisher. He is currently the manager and producer of the independent Nashville based record label, Nashville Skyline Music.
For more information on the host, visit his website: JohnMathisJr.com
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Clyde Moody
Today's Unknown Legend may be an example of what host, John Mathis Jr. has mentioned briefly before about fame. Perhaps if some artists were born a decade later and their accomplishments had happened later, their status in the memory of pop culture would be more prevalent.
Our featured "Unknown Legend" today contributed to three areas of evolving forms of Country Music in his career as well as having a million selling record. If you're a hard core Country Music history fan, you may know his name, but most do not today. Which is why we're paying tribute to Clyde Moody!
This podcast is brought to you by Nashville Skyline Digital.
John Mathis Jr is a Dove Nominated songwriter and music publisher. He is currently the manager and producer of the independent Nashville based record label, Nashville Skyline Music.
For more information on the host, visit his website: JohnMathisJr.com
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Carla Cates
Today's Country Music Unknown Legends Podcast features a female Country Music artist whose career only spanned a few short years in 1959 and 1960. She got the chance to be a part of the roster of artists on the legendary Louisiana Hayride, performing on shows with Roger Miller, George Jones, Lefty Frizzell and others. Although she didn't get her big break she was probably hoping for and become famous, her career posthumously has a little twist to it.
This podcast is brought to you by Nashville Skyline Digital.
John Mathis Jr is a Dove Nominated songwriter and music publisher. He is currently the manager and producer of the independent Nashville based record label, Nashville Skyline Music.
For more information on the host, visit his website: JohnMathisJr.com
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Johnny Rion
In today's episode of The Country Music Unknown Legends Podcast, we pay tribute to Johnny Rion. The host of podcast, John Mathis Jr., first noticed Rion's name in a letter to him from 1954. Rion was a dee jay at a St Louis radio station and the duo of Jimmy and Johnny were writing to promote their new single, hoping for some spins in the St Louis area.
As it turns out, Johnny Rion was more than just a dee jay ... he's one of our unknown legends we're going to feature today.
This podcast is brought to you by Nashville Skyline Digital.
John Mathis Jr is a Dove Nominated songwriter and music publisher. He is currently the manager and producer of the independent Nashville based record label, Nashville Skyline Music.
For more information on the host, visit his website: JohnMathisJr.com
Support the show