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61-883: Throughout the years, the Curb Companies have had major successes with such artists as the Stone Poneys (featuring Linda Ronstadt ), Eric Burdon and War, Sammy Davis Jr. , the Osmond Family (including Donny & Marie), Lou Rawls , Exile , the Righteous Brothers , Solomon Burke , Gloria Gaynor , the Hondells , the Arrows (featuring Davie Allan ), Lyle Lovett , Roy Orbison , the Electric Flag (featuring Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Miles),

122-504: A folk rock trio formed in Los Angeles , consisting of Linda Ronstadt on vocals , Bobby Kimmel on rhythm guitar and vocals, and Kenny Edwards on lead guitar . The group featured Ronstadt showcasing an eclectic mix of songs, often from under-appreciated songwriters, requiring a wide array of backing musicians. Their recordings include Ronstadt's first hit song, a cover of Mike Nesmith 's " Different Drum ," recorded without

183-647: A Top 10 hit with Brian Kennedy and Peter Corry's Tribute to George Best , an EP featuring recordings of " You Raise Me Up ". Curb previously had major hits in Europe with the Four Seasons, the Osmonds, LeAnn Rimes and soundtracks, such as Coyote Ugly . Stone Poneys Stone Poneys (also the Stone Poneys , Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys , and The Stone Poneys With Linda Ronstadt ) were

244-401: A creek, a funeral, pig snorts, backmasking, and bong hits. Straight to Hell was released as a double album on February 28, 2006 by Bruc Records, an imprint of Curb Records , on compact disc in explicit and clean edited editions, as well as on vinyl . On his website, Williams encourages fans to support independent record outlets that are more willing to stock the uncensored version of

305-482: A demo, and also with Jack Nitzsche , but nothing ever materialized (she and Zappa – who were both being managed by Cohen in this time period – would later make a radio commercial for Remington brand electric shavers that was rejected by the company). After the Poneys reformed, Cohen introduced Linda, Kenny, and Bobby to Nick Venet (also known as Nik Venet) at The Troubadour. Venet signed the band to Capitol Records in

366-513: A dual compilation album called Back on the Street Again (catalog number SPC-3245), with Side 1 consisting of five songs by David Clayton-Thomas that are taken from solo albums that he was recording while serving as the lead singer for Blood, Sweat and Tears . Other than the title song and "Different Drum", the Stone Poneys songs on this album are relatively obscure tracks that have hardly appeared at all on Ronstadt's compilation albums over

427-482: A good band, but we didn't like the singer". After this tour, Kimmel also left the band. Linda Ronstadt gamely moved forward and, effectively a solo artist already, started taking control of her career. She gathered more sophisticated material for the new album, including three songs by Tim Buckley that would become standout cuts on that album. "Tim used to live in a house that I lived in too, and we both used to move in and out ... that is, we stayed there alternately. It

488-424: A hit song, and we need to sort of have an arranger arrange it.' So none of us actually played on the record version of that." (A live performance of "Different Drum" in the earlier style survives, however.) The original album version of "Different Drum" from 1967 had a slightly longer run time (2:46) from the single edit (2:35), owing to a repeat of the harpsichord break in the middle of the song. All versions of

549-534: A respectable 15 weeks on that chart. Their third album was titled Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III (released in April 1968); at this point, Capitol was promoting Linda Ronstadt rather than the band, and only Linda's picture was on the cover. Like its predecessor, the album had two singles: "Up to My Neck in High Muddy Water" b/w "Carnival Bear" (released under the name Linda Ronstadt and

610-603: A semester at the University of Arizona , Linda Ronstadt decided to move to the Los Angeles area to join Bobby Kimmel and form a band . Ronstadt described Kimmel's vision of the band: "It was going to be five people. We had an electric autoharp and a girl singer, and we thought we were unique in the world. And it turned out The Jefferson Airplane and The Lovin' Spoonful had beaten us." The group trimmed down to

671-602: A sister rock label Bruc Records, the name of which is an backronym for "Blues, Rock, Urban, Country" (the name is also "Curb" spelled backwards). Straight to Hell by Hank Williams III was the first album to be released on the new imprint. In 2011, Curb filed a lawsuit against singer Tim McGraw alleging breach of contract, and McGraw filed a counter lawsuit against Curb. Early court rulings came down in favor of McGraw. In 2012, McGraw stopped recording with Curb, which had released all his albums and singles since 1990s, and switched to Big Machine Records . In 2015, Jim Ed Norman

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732-490: A solo artist with the No. 1 album Heart Like A Wheel . The song listing in the reissue highlighted Ronstadt's three solo performances (she also sang solo on one verse in a fourth song that was not so identified). As a result, the largely unknown first album by The Stone Poneys was more widely available in the 1970s and 1980s than the subsequent albums that featured the band's more familiar songs. In 1995, Capitol briefly issued

793-686: A solo artist. And frankly, Linda's taste in songs was really growing away from what Bobby was writing.... So there was a spontaneous growth toward her being a solo artist." A series of club dates throughout the United States to support the second album followed. Ronstadt remembers opening for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village as one of her worst experiences with

854-534: A stake in Word Records from then-owners Time Warner . Warner Music Group sold its remaining stake in the label to Curb in 2016, making Word a wholly owned subsidiary, while Warner Music continues to distribute its output. Four-time GMA Music Award Female Vocalist of the Year Natalie Grant is signed to Curb Records, in addition to the five-time GMA music award-winning group Selah. Throughout

915-462: A trio that called themselves The Stone Poneys. Their (misspelled) name came from Delta blues singer Charley Patton 's 1929 song, "The Stone Pony Blues" (also known as "Pony Blues"). The band was discovered by a couple of music industry executives while rehearsing at a soul food restaurant called Olivia's, located in Ocean Park , a community between Venice Beach and Santa Monica . Olivia's

976-456: Is the third studio album by American musician Hank Williams III , released on February 28, 2006, by Bruc Records, an imprint of Curb Records . In largely self-produced sessions recorded at a band member's home, Williams and the Damn Band recorded traditional country music , western swing and bluegrass songs which focus on drug use, hedonism and the outlaw life, as well as criticism of

1037-623: The "tempo and structure of bluegrass" with the "attitude and swagger of heavy metal ". The album's lyrical themes include drug use, hedonism and the outlaw life, as well as criticism of the mainstream country music industry. The album opens up with a sample of the Louvin Brothers ' " Satan Is Real ", which leads into the title track. Williams states that lyrical inspiration came from his very conservative religious mother, as well as an interest in Satan and Satanism . "Dick In Dixie"

1098-404: The 1960s classic " Let's Get Together ". (The album was released on the heels of the successful reissue of the version by The Youngbloods in 1969). In 1974, prior to the release of Heart Like A Wheel , Capitol issued a Linda Ronstadt compilation titled Different Drum , which featured five Stone Poney tracks and five songs from Ronstadt's first three solo albums. Aside from the title track,

1159-699: The Curb College for Music Business at Belmont University , the Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication at Cal State University Northridge, the Curb Beaman Jubilee Singers Chair at Fisk University , the Curb College of Arts, Music and Sciences at Daytona State College , the Business and Law Chair and Facility at Claremont McKenna College , the Curb Learning Lab for Music and Entertainment at Baylor University ,

1220-1083: The Curb Junior Achievement Center in Los Angeles and Nashville, the Curb Family Pediatric Center, the Nashville Boy Scout Conference Center, the Patriots Theatre at Fort Campbell, the Curb Family Education Oasis Center and the Stella Curb Teacher Development Classrooms. The Curb Foundation is very active in education including the Curb Center at Vanderbilt (which has launched the Curb Creative Campus Program),

1281-973: The Curb Keller Dormitories at Neve Yerushalayim in Jerusalem University and the Curb History Institute at Rhodes College . In conjunction with Curb's educational projects, Curb has purchased and restored Elvis Presley 's first home in Memphis, Tennessee , the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville, Tennessee , the Historic RCA Studio B, and Columbia's Historic Quonset Hut (which was the first recording studio on Nashville's famed Music Row). These historic facilities were used by students, at

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1342-531: The Los Angeles club circuit, with Ronstadt usually performing on stage in a miniskirt and bare feet. They worked intimate clubs like The Troubadour in Hollywood , where they were opening for such musicians as Odetta and Oscar Brown Jr. ; The Insomniac in Hermosa Beach , where they often appeared with The Chambers Brothers ; and The Bitter End in Greenwich Village . One night at The Troubadour,

1403-689: The Stone Poneys) which stalled at No. 93 on the Hot 100 ; and "Some of Shelly's Blues" b/w "Hobo" (released under the nameStone Poneys, Featuring Linda Ronstadt) which, like the album, did not chart in the US, but did reach No. 94 in Canada . "Some of Shelly's Blues" was another Michael Nesmith song. The album ended with the Laura Nyro song, "Stoney End", which turned out to have been aptly named (although

1464-456: The Stone Poneys. The first album, simply called The Stone Poneys , was more folk than rock and featured relatively few lead vocals by Ronstadt; it received little notice. The band again broke up briefly between the first two albums; but, as related by Kenny Edwards, Nick Venet told the band: "'We can make another record, we can make this happen. If we're going to do anything with this, we've got to make something that sounds commercial and get on

1525-1062: The Sylvers , and the Four Seasons . The Four Seasons' comeback album, Who Loves You , included "December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)". It was the first single to spend more than one year on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Curb's roster past and present includes Chet Atkins , Rodney Atkins , Kaci Battaglia , Bellamy Brothers , Lee Brice , Sawyer Brown , Solomon Burke , Clark Family Experience , Sammy Davis Jr. , Desert Rose Band , Exile , Family Force 5 , Four Seasons , Gloria Gaynor , Lee Greenwood , Steve Holy , Wynonna Judd , The Judds , Hal Ketchum , Lyle Lovett , Ronnie McDowell , Tim McGraw , Jo Dee Messina , Roy Orbison , Lou Rawls , Righteous Brothers , LeAnn Rimes , Rio Grand , Neil Sedaka , T.G. Sheppard , Jim Stafford , Ray Stevens , Jonathan Thulin , Mel Tillis , Trick Pony (featuring Heidi Newfield ), Hank Williams Jr. and Chris Young . In late 2002, Curb Records also acquired

1586-412: The album. Mark Deming of Allmusic gave the album 4 out of 5, writing, "There's a pure and soulful musical vision at the heart of Straight to Hell no matter how much Hank III lashes out against the confines of current country music and messes with the form, and that's what makes him most valuable as an outlaw -- there's lots of long-haired dope-smoking rednecks out there, but not many that can tap into

1647-479: The band's first manager, Herb Cohen , told Kimmel in front of Ronstadt: "Well, I can get your chick singer recorded, but I don't know about the rest of the group". Linda Ronstadt called this "the beginning of the end", although this occurred even before they were signed to Capitol Records and Ronstadt insisted that she would not record without the band. The Stone Poneys broke up briefly in this time period, and Cohen tried to connect Ronstadt with Frank Zappa to make

1708-562: The band: "Here we were rejected by the hippest element in New York as lame. We broke up right after that. We couldn't bear to look at each other." During work on the band's third album, in early 1968, Kenny Edwards departed for India . After "Different Drum" hit the charts, Bob Kimmel and Linda Ronstadt rounded up some more musicians, and the reformed Stone Poneys began touring with The Doors . Doors frontman Jim Morrison didn't endear himself to Ronstadt; she recalled: "We thought they were

1769-418: The effective end of The Stone Poneys as a band: Almost immediately, they started to become known as "Linda Ronstadt and The Stone Poneys". Also, unlike the other 45s, which had been released solely under the name of the band, the "Different Drum" single also included in small letters: "Featuring Linda Ronstadt". As Edwards recalls: "From the record company's point of view, immediately they wanted to push Linda as

1830-493: The four Stone Poneys tracks were remixed tracks from the third Stone Poneys' album, all featuring Ronstadt solo: "Hobo," "Up to My Neck in High Muddy Water", "Some Of Shelly's Blues", and "Stoney End". Eight years after the release of the band's first album (in March 1975), it was reissued by Capitol under the name The Stone Poneys Featuring Linda Ronstadt , as a result of the multi-platinum success Linda Ronstadt had in 1974-75 as

1891-517: The group recorded their first album in the fall of 1966, The Stone Poneys , which was released in January 1967. The album is notable for its precise strong-voiced harmony vocals. The disc's one and only single release "Sweet Summer Blue and Gold" received no airplay and failed to chart anywhere. (The first album is now mainly known by the name of the 1975 reissue, The Stone Poneys Featuring Linda Ronstadt ). The second album, Evergreen, Volume 2

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1952-514: The initial release of "Everybody Has His Own Ideas" besides the original 45; otherwise, the only Stone Poneys music made available on CD has been the songs on the original three albums, which has left many songs such as "Carnival Bear", from a 1968 single that never appeared on any of the albums, without any available issue. Even the three song "fragments" that open the third album – which total barely 1½ minutes – have never been reissued as full songs. Straight to Hell (album) Straight to Hell

2013-503: The last gig in late 1968) reasonably good friends but a little disillusioned about 'the big time'." (*There was never a Tonight Show Stone Poneys appearance aired. Ronstadt first appeared on the late night talk show in 1969. Her second appearance wasn't until 1983.) Despite the lack of big hits, Linda Ronstadt was becoming increasingly well known following the success of "Different Drum", and in 1969 she officially went solo with her album Hand Sown...Home Grown . However, beginning in

2074-483: The lead act in the stable of folk-rock performers that Venet was signing and producing in this time period. The three albums by The Stone Poneys were produced by Nick Venet. The band's original songs were credited to Bob Kimmel and Kenny Edwards, although subsequent CD reissues removed Edwards' name from most of the credits. BMI's website now credits all original Kimmel-Edwards songs to Kimmel alone, resulting in "Back Home" being Edwards's lone songwriting credit with

2135-631: The lyrics of "Not Everybody Likes Us", Williams addresses the rumor that Kid Rock is the son of Hank Williams Jr. The second disc consists of a sound collage of psychedelic music It includes two tracks, "Louisiana Stripes", and a hidden track consisting of a medley of other Williams compositions along with covers of Hank Williams Sr.'s "I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You", Cheech & Chong 's " Up in Smoke " and Wayne Hancock 's "Take My Pain", all linked with various soundbites and sound effects such as voice mail messages, passing trains, runaway horses,

2196-577: The mainstream country music industry. These songs make up the first disc, while the second disc consists of a sound collage of psychedelic music . After the recording of Williams' previous album, Lovesick, Broke and Driftin' (2002), Williams would not release new music for another four years due to a contractual dispute with Curb Records . Upon resolving the dispute, Williams decided to produce and record his next album independently. The album consists of two discs. The first disc consists of country, western swing and bluegrass songs which fused

2257-543: The mid-1970s, Kenny Edwards recorded and toured with Linda for about 10 years. In 2007, Linda Ronstadt reconnected with Bob Kimmel in Tucson and sang harmony vocals on one of Kimmel's songs, "Into the Arms of Love" that was included on a CD released that year by his new band, BK Special. On the first two albums, most of the songs were written by Bob Kimmel and Kenny Edwards. Under the guidance of producer Nik Venet and Capitol,

2318-765: The name The Three Ronstadts, among others). The three Ronstadts joined with Kimmel and a local banjo player named Richard Saltus, performing locally as The New Union Ramblers. Kimmel, who was six years older than Linda, was impressed with the strong voice and enthusiasm of the fourteen-year-old. He relocated to Southern California around 1961 and wrote regularly to cajole Linda into joining him throughout her high school years at Catalina High School . Kimmel had already met and befriended Kenny Edwards shortly before Linda's arrival in Los Angeles , and they had started writing folk-rock songs together. in December 1964, after dropping out of Tucson's Catalina High School, and completing

2379-578: The other members of the group. The band released three albums: The Stone Poneys ; Evergreen, Volume 2 ; and Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III . All three albums were reissued in CD format in the 1990s in the US. The first two albums were reissued in Australia in 2008. Linda Ronstadt first met Bobby Kimmel as a teenager in 1960 while performing gigs in and around Tucson, Arizona , with her older brother Peter and older sister Suzi (under

2440-563: The radio." For the second album, Evergreen, Volume 2 , the songs were in more of a rock vein; and Ronstadt was moved firmly into the lead vocalist position, with only occasional harmony vocals. The album includes the band's only hit song, " Different Drum ". The original recording by The Stone Poneys of "Different Drum" was quite similar to the recorded version by The Greenbriar Boys from their 1966 album Better Late than Never! ; but as Kenny Edwards recalls: "That's when Nik Venet sort of took an executive position and went, 'This could be

2501-454: The real band, only backing musicians for Linda Ronstadt; however, they were still being billed as Stone Poneys, and many of the musicians still view themselves as "ex-Stone Poneys". Shep Cooke fondly remembers his time with the band: "We rehearsed like crazy, finished the third Stone Poney album, toured the entire country for 2½ months, played on Joey Bishop 's and Johnny Carson 's TV shows*, went crazy for lack of sleep, and parted company (after

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2562-487: The recording session. Capitol record company executives were understandably furious, and the single was immediately pulled from the market. Thus, this disk has become one of the rarest Linda Ronstadt collectables, bringing as much as $ 144 (in a 2007 eBay auction). In the early 1970s, the Pickwick record label licensed several Stone Poneys tracks from their Capitol albums. Five of these songs were included as Side 2 on

2623-652: The second 45 (following "One for One") from the new album. The band's version of "Different Drum" hit the Billboard pop chart on November 11, 1967 and stayed in the Hot 100 for 17 weeks, getting as high as No. 13. The song also reached No. 12 on the Cash Box survey. The song has been a staple on oldies radio ever since and remains one of Linda Ronstadt's most popular recordings. Its parent record slid up Billboard's main album chart to No. 100 and lasted for

2684-414: The session: "[T]here was a scuffle and some noise just outside the door. When we opened it, there was a sad and for some, tearful scene in which it became clear that Kenny [Edwards] and Bobby [Kimmel] had not been notified of the session, and had heard about it indirectly and showed up full of anger at the betrayal. Capitol really did try to break the group up.” The very success of "Different Drum" spelled

2745-433: The song reissued after that time have been the single edit although listed with the longer run time. This was not the only instance of the male band members being pushed out of the recording studio. Ironically, one of the few songs on the second album to feature harmony vocals, "Back on the Street Again" was a duet by Ronstadt and songwriter Steve Gillette (though Ronstadt's voice was clearly on top); Gillette remembers from

2806-422: The song was not written for The Stone Poneys). After "Different Drum" became a hit, Mike Curb pulled out two of the recordings he had produced back in 1965, " So Fine " and "Everybody Has His Own Ideas", and decided to release them in 1968 as a 45 on his label Sidewalk , which was a Capitol subsidiary. The single was put out without the knowledge of Capitol – or Mercury either, for that matter, who had paid for

2867-514: The studio and also on the road. One of the first was an old friend from Tucson , Shep Cooke. He had already turned down Ronstadt's invitation to join Stone Poneys twice (in 1966 and also in early 1967); when she asked him again in late 1967: "Something told me I'd better not decline a third time. 'Different Drum' was climbing up the charts, and I couldn't refuse. So I joined the Stone Poneys in November 1967." Another latter-day member of Stone Poneys

2928-458: The summer of 1966. Ronstadt recalls of the signing: "Capitol wanted me as a solo, but Nick convinced them I wasn't ready, that I would develop. It was true." In a late 1966 article in Billboard , Venet discussed the formation of a new record label under Capitol called FolkWorld specifically to promote folk-rock artists. Although the FolkWorld concept was never realized, The Stone Poneys became

2989-406: The sweet and dirty heart of American music the way Hank III does, and Straight to Hell proves he's got a whole lot to say on that particular subject." In a more critical review, The A.V. Club 's Noel Murray gave the album a B+ rating, writing, "Just because Hank Williams III is the scion of country-music legends doesn't automatically excuse him from accusations of rednexploitation", claiming that

3050-475: The three Stone Poneys albums as individual CD releases. These releases were removed from the catalog within a few years. In 2008, the Australian label Raven released The Stone Poneys , a 27-track "two-fer" CD featuring the first two Stone Poneys albums plus four tracks from their third album. Linda Ronstadt has claimed dissatisfaction with the arrangements of the three Stone Poneys albums many times over

3111-557: The two singles from the album were released under different names, though Linda Ronstadt now had the burden of the Capitol recording contract: "See, The [Stone] Poneys were taken off the books after the second album. Since it was a hit, they made royalties off it. But I didn't. I paid all by myself for the third album, which was expensive, and it put me severely in the red by the time I started recording my first solo album." By late 1967, Linda Ronstadt began recruiting musicians to assist in

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3172-677: The various Curb-supported colleges and universities, for the purpose of studying music history. In October 2008, the 6,000 seat Curb Event Center at Belmont University in Nashville hosted the Town Hall Presidential debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama . In the United Kingdom, Curb artists (apart from those sub-licensed to majors) are eligible for the UK 'independent' charts. In January 2006, Curb scored

3233-666: The years, Curb has had success with other Gospel music artists such as MercyMe , the Second Chapter of Acts, Degarmo and Key, Patti Cabrera, Michael English, Debby Boone , the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Barlowgirl , pureNRG , Worship Kids, Francesca Battistelli , Big Daddy Weave , Building 429 , Fernando Ortega , Downhere , Nicole C. Mullen , Larry Norman, Jonathan Pierce, Plumb , Point of Grace , Group 1 Crew , Salvador , Jamie Slocum , Steller Kart , Jaci Velasquez and Mark Schultz . In 2006, Curb launched

3294-404: The years, but Capitol has continually made money through reissues of the early material in numerous configurations. Also, in addition to their hit song "Different Drum", several of the other Stone Poneys tracks have been featured in many of Linda Ronstadt's compilation albums over the years, such as "Hobo", "Some of Shelly's Blues" and "Stoney End". The now deleted Linda Ronstadt Box Set included

3355-569: The years: "Song About the Rain", "I've Got to Know" (also known as "I'd Like to Know") and "New Hard Times". Apparently somewhat later, Pickwick released Stoney End (catalog number SPC-3298) under the name Linda Ronstadt & The Stone Poneys . The only song included on both of the Pickwick albums is "Different Drum"; the other tracks on this album are mostly familiar songs like "One for One" and "Some of Shelly's Blues", as well as their recording of

3416-704: Was Kit Alderson, who would later help train Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in the guitar and autoharp , respectively, for their work in the 2005 Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash biopic film Walk the Line . By November 1968, a different group of musicians were billing themselves as The Stone Poneys. Joining Ronstadt was guitarist John Forsha – who was also a session player on the band's first two albums – drummer John Ware , bassist John Keski, steel guitarist Herb Steiner, and drummer Bill Martin. Purists might contend that these Stone Poneys were not

3477-469: Was famous for its food and performers, including The Doors . In 1965, they recorded the Johnny Otis song " So Fine " and several others. Mike Curb , who at that time was working for Mercury , produced the sessions. The record company wanted them to change the group's name to "The Signets" and sing surf music , which the trio chose not to do. Instead, The Stone Poneys became a leading attraction on

3538-719: Was named CEO of the Curb Group. However, Mike Curb remains extremely involved as the founder and chairman of the board. Curb Records supports charitable programs through the Mike Curb Family Foundation. Some of the supported programs include: the Mike Curb Family Welcome Center at Second Harvest, Curb Youth Symphony, Curb Young Musicians Competition, Curb Concerto Competition, the Curb Family Humane Center,

3599-494: Was released in June 1967. On this album, Linda Ronstadt sang lead vocals on almost all songs. The exception was the title track, which has a psychedelic rock feel. Kenny Edwards was the vocalist on "Part One", while "Part Two" was an instrumental that featured fine sitar work (also by Edwards). The band hit pay dirt with Michael Nesmith 's " Different Drum " (written and copyrighted in 1965 prior to Nesmith joining The Monkees ),

3660-414: Was the house he wrote about in 'Morning Glory', which I call 'The Hobo'. That was the 'fleeting house.'" Buckley was among those in the group photograph that appeared on the back cover of the third album. Although their final album still appears to be in the name of the band, the album name, Linda Ronstadt, Stone Poneys and Friends, Vol. III was purposefully vague, without a specific artist's name. Even

3721-473: Was written as a criticism of country pop , which Williams views as being antithetical to traditional country music. Williams' criticisms of the mainstream country music industry are contrasted with a lyrical reverence for traditional country music artists displayed in songs such as "Country Heroes" in which he references country music artists that inspired him, including Hank Williams Sr. , Johnny Cash , Waylon Jennings , George Jones and David Allan Coe . In

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