Tough Year For Country Music Continues: RIP Hank Thompson
One of my favorites and he's been around forever. He was, interestingly, the only Ivy-League educated country music star I can think of; he took some classes at Princeton.* I had hoped to hear him play live before he died; my parents did a few years back.
Michael Bates has details and video. Very sad.
* Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford, so that's something.
MORE: In the comments, MB mentions that
Riders in the Sky’s Woody Paul, the King of the Cowboy Fiddlers, has a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from MIT, so that’s something, too.I also understand that Ernest Tubb did some post-graduate work in semiotics at the Sorbonne under Jacques Derrida.