The Black Country Artists Who Paved The Way For 'Old Town Road'

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 7:29 p.m.

"We think of a guy like Charley Pride and one of the reasons he got so popular was because you couldn't see him," musician Dom Flemons told us. He said people would come to Pride's shows and then be upset when they saw he was black.

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