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McDonald Craig
McDonald 'Mack' Craig (April 11, 1931 – September 26, 2021) was an American folk musician and farmer. A member of the Mid-American Country Music Hall of Fame, Craig's style was influenced by and has been compared in style to country music singer Jimmie Rodgers. Influenced by his family's musical tradition Craig committed much of Rodgers's work to memory, and his performances bridged folk and popular styles. In the mid-1960s, Craig recorded four singles with Nashville-based Gold Standard Records. He did not release any professional recordings or albums until 2002, when ''McDonald Craig Sings Traditional Country Music'' was released on Roughshod Records. In addition to these recordings, Craig toured folk music festivals and appeared on broadcast radio, including Ernest Tubb's Midnite Jamboree. In 1978, Craig won the talent competition at the Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival held in Meridian, Mississippi, the same music festival that a young Elvis Presley had won 25 years before, bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linden, Tennessee
Linden is a town in and the county seat of Perry County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,015 at the 2000 census and 908 at the 2010 showing a loss of 107. Linden was officially incorporated in 1850.Incorporated Municipalities in '''', 2005–2006 edition, pages 618-625. Linden is served by Perry County Airport, located 3.5 miles to the southwest. Linden is named after the Thomas Campbell poem, "The Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meridian, Mississippi
Meridian is the List of municipalities in Mississippi, eighth most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, with a population of 35,052 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the county seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Lauderdale County and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area. Along major highways, the city is east of Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson; southwest of Birmingham, Alabama; northeast of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana; and southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. Established in 1860, at the junction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Southern Railway (U.S.), Southern Railway of Mississippi, Meridian built an economy based on the railways and goods transported on them, and it became a strategic trading center. During the American Civil War, Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman burned much of the city to the ground in the Battle of Meridian (February 1864). Rebuilt after the war, the city entered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
