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RAMBLIN ROUND: It's about time! Ray Charles, a 2021 inductee into Country Hall of Fame

RAMBLIN ROUND: It's about time! Ray Charles, a 2021 inductee into Country Hall of Fame
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Grammy Awards 2021: Jack Harlow, Sturgill Simpson, John Prine


Three musicians with connections to Kentucky have been nominated for a 2021 Grammy Award  Jack Harlow, Sturgill Simpson and the late John Prine.
Presented by the Recording Academy since 1958, the Grammy s are a celebration of excellence, the music community s highest honor, and its only peer-based award.
Here s how everyone fared at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards, which aired on CBS on March 14. 
JACK HARLOW
What s poppin? Louisville s own Jack Harlow is poppin , that s what.
The Louisville-bred hip-hop artist was nominated for this year s Grammy for  Best Rap Performance for his hit What s Poppin. Although he didn t win the statue, that honor went to Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé for Savage, ....

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Black country music singers: From DeFord Bailey to Mickey Guyton


4:12 pm UTC Feb. 16, 2021
Country music trailblazer Charley Pride
Photo: Ricky Rogers, The Tennessean, Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network
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As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
Intertwining Black and white communities shaped country music.
Decades before Entertainer of the Year trophies and heated competition for radio placement, the fiddle  descending from European immigrants  and the banjo  created by African slaves  melded in the American South. ....

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