12-15-2020, 06:22 AM
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one-balled nipple jockey
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Sad to see Charley Pride go. Legend in the blues/country genre, died from complications from guess what? RIP.
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What Country Music Asked of Charley Pride
The singer put himself on the line to become the genre’s first Black superstar. He died on Saturday not long after performing at a largely mask-free awards ceremony.
NYTimes
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nyt...id-19.amp.html
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Pride remembered being called slurs by performers who were his colleagues and friends; how George Jones and another man scrawled “KKK” on his car after a bender; and how he had to remind Webb Pierce — who told him it’s “good for you to be in our music” — that “It’s my music, too.”
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