THE JOHNNY CASH SHOW – "History of Country Music" – Airdate: January 21, 1971. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) MERLE HAGGARD
ATLANTA – MARCH 8: Country singer and wife of Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter leaves her footprints at an in-store appearance at Peaches Records on March 8, 1976 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Tom Hill/WireImage)
Actor, singer, songwriter, musician, Kris Kristofferson wearing a white T shirt, jeans and boots, holding a Budweiser beer, sheet music and an acoustic twelve string guitar with posters and album covers on the wall in the office of Combine Studios in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970. (Photo by Al Clayton/Getty Images).
CANADA – JUNE 01: A smoothly professional artist; is Peter Goddard's description of country singer Loretta Lynn; who gave two concerts with Sonny James; Nat Stuckey and Johnny Russell at Massey Hall Saturday night. Yet only 2;400 attended. (Photo by Jeff Goode/Toronto Star via Getty Images)
