A Black Man Singing About A Blond

A Black Man Singing About A Blond Girl Was Potential Trouble.

It Used To Be That If You Had A Pretty Good Record, You Could Stop By A Station In Little Rock Or Atlanta And Let The Dj Listen To It. No Way Something Like That Can Happen Now.

No One Had Ever Told Me That Whites Were Supposed To Sing One Kind Of Music And Blacks Another - I Sang What I Liked In The Only Voice I Had.

It Was Unlikely That Anyone Had Ever Heard A Black Person Sing Country Music.

There Only Have Been Two People On This Earth That I Was Nervous Around: Chet Atkins And Mickey Mantle. It's Because Of The Respect I Have For Them.