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My mother, Kathryn Statham Price, was a gifted musician who played string bass and piano at Classen High School, from which she graduated at 16; she was staff pianist at WNAD radio in Norman during her studies at the University of Oklahoma. She graduated at 19 with a B.A., majoring in Latin with a minor in German. She was my friend and source of staunch encouragement... Country music had a special attraction for me in the early 50's, the heyday of Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Johnny and Jack, the Louvin Brothers, Roy Acuff, Merle Travis and many others. I would lie awake late on Saturday nights listening to the Grand Ole Opry after the family had gone to bed. Like a lot of Oklahomans of their generation who were educated, my parents had a somewhat self-conscious aversion to anything that smacked of Dust Bowl migrants (our migration to California was in 1945, also for economic reasons) and were not happy with my choice of music. I guess they got over it. Mother did, anyway... During my..

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