# Old Country Music: What Do You Dig?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-country-music-what-do-you-dig/310904>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 3, 2005, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-country-music-what-do-you-dig/310904 "2005-07-03T09:21:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-country-music-what-do-you-dig/310904/41 "2005-07-05T18:55:19Z")

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Oh, and take the period out of “T.”

I realize the initial doesn’t stand for anything. He added it at the suggestion of an agent who thought people would confuse his name with Tom Paul (of the Glazer Bros.).

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**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-country-music-what-do-you-dig/310904/42 "2005-07-09T15:41:13Z")

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Emmylou Harris’s extensive catalogue of albums. A respectful, loving nod to great country classics. To my mind, she started off paying tribute to country music, and is now a country legend herself.

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**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-country-music-what-do-you-dig/310904/43 "2005-07-09T15:57:38Z")

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Just chiming in to say a good word for Lefty “I Love You a Thousand Ways” Frizzell.

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**Author:** ![gommsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@gommsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gommsn)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-country-music-what-do-you-dig/310904/44 "2005-07-09T16:06:59Z")

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> [@ColonelDax](#):
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> Just chiming in to say a good word for Lefty “I Love You a Thousand Ways” Frizzell.

Also from the vault …Saginaw, Michigan by Lefty. Great stuff

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