She truly is one of the legendary icons behind the scenes of country music. She didn't take the curtain calls, but a lot of us would never have heard Flatt & Scruggs if it hadn't been for Louise Scruggs.
Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
I am probably the last of a generation able to gain an education in country music by osmosis, by sitting in a '64 Ford banging the buttons on the radio.