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Country Blues Is Here!

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Ann Arbor News, July 22, 1977
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22
Month
July
Year
1977
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Mildred Seyfried - Cowgirl Chanteuse, June 1948

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1948
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Ann Arbor News, June 25, 1948
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Mildred Seyfried, 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Seyfried of Eighth St. although entering Ann Arbor High School in the fall, is well on the way towards a show business career. A singer of western songs, the teen-ager entertains weekly at Leland Sanatorium, has appeared on the radio and has sung with various dance bands.
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Local Girl Will Appear In Show

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Ann Arbor News, October 22, 1951
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22
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October
Year
1951
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AADL Talks To: Fred LaBour, former writer for The Michigan Daily and member of the musical group Riders in the Sky

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Fred "Too Slim" LaBour (Photo courtesy of Riders in the Sky)

In this episode, AADL Talks to "Too Slim" Fred LaBour. Fred is a member of Riders in the Sky, an American Country and Western music and comedy quartet that has performed together since 1977. From '67 to '71, Fred was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan where he covered sports and wrote music reviews for The Michigan Daily. Fred discusses the campus culture that shaped his career and he walks us through a day in the life of a too-slim "wise ass" English major whose satirical review of the Beatles’ "Abbey Road" album propelled the “Paul McCartney is Dead” urban legend that took the country by storm.

Read Fred's October 14, 1969 "Paul is Dead" article in The Michigan Daily.

Check out Riders in the Sky in the AADL catalog. The group is also featured on the following CDs: Toy Story Favorites, Toy Story 2, Disney Pixar All Time Favorites, and Woody's Roundup.

The Albums of Hank Locklin

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Writings by Michael Erlewine

Hank Locklin (Lawrence Hankins Locklin), one of country music's great tenors, was born February 15, 1918 in the small town of McLellan located in the lumbering district of the Florida Panhandle. The youngest son of four children, he went to a one-room schoolhouse and was musical even as a young child. Hank was injured at the age of eight in an accident and the long recovery process was the time when he first begin to learn music. Although interested in the guitar early on, it was not until his mid-teens that he really began to master that instrument.

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Country's Debut A Delight

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Parent Issue
Ann Arbor News, October 31, 1977
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31
Month
October
Year
1977
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