"Honkytonking with the Silver Strings," a new story set in Waylon County, will be included in the 2018 Panther City Review, which will be released next Saturday at Funky Town Festival headquarters in the Fort Worth Stockyards. In the story, I mention Jean Shepard, a country music singer whose family was part of the Okie migration to California during the Dust Bowl. Although this Grand Ole Opry star was the first female country artist after World War II to sell a million records, she is hardly a household name today.
In "Honkytonking with the Silver Strings," I also allude to other artists whose work was first released on 78 rpm records, and though not every reader will know every artist, the characters in the story would have known them all. And considering the almighty power of google, I know that anyone with a burning interest to hear the music of any given artist can find it in a couple of clicks.
Here is "Second Fiddle to an Old Guitar" sung by Jean Shepard.
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