Violet Hensley

July 18, 2023

Country Music’s Oldest Living Links and Legends (2.0)

Every so often, it is important to stop down, pay tribute, and appreciate all of the living legends we still have around in country and roots music. These are the contributors who you can sometimes trace back to the very formations of country.

Alice Gerrard, Bill Clifton, Billie Jean Horton, Bobby Bare, Bobby Koefer, Buck White, Bud Wendell, Donna LaVerne Stoneman, Johnny Western, Kris Kristofferson, Leroy Van Dyke, Merv Shiner, Mimi Roman, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Roni Stoneman, The Whites, Violet Hensley, Willie Nelson

October 21, 2021

Country Music’s Oldest Living Links and Legends

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With the recent deaths of some of country music’s oldest living legends and links to its past such as Don Maddox of Maddox Brothers and Rose at the age of 98, and Sue Thompson at 96, it seems like a suitable time to ask, who are some of the oldest legends of country music still living?

Bill Hayes, Bill Pittman, Billie Jean Horton, Bobby Bare, Bobby Osborne, CW McCall, Jesse McReynolds, Jim and Jesse, Leroy Van Dyke, Loretta Lynn, Merv Shiner, Ray Howard, Rose Lee Maphis, Stonewall Jackson, The Osborne Brothers, Violet Hensley, Willie Nelson