RIP Ray

[Benny Profane]

I was driving back from a 50 miler near Cooperstown yesterday and heard this interview that Terry Gross replayed over NPR from 1998. She digs deep, and he laughs at her and life a lot, but reveals a lot about himself, including his mother, being blind, why he is a unique interpreter of country music ( He yodels at one point ). Next to Armstrong, the most important American musical artist of the 20th century is gone.

http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=06/11/2004

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[Steven S. Dallas]

Originally posted by Benny Profane
Next to Armstrong, the most important American musical artist of the 20th century is gone.

Michael Bolton, we hardly knew you.