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171 NOTES CHAPTER 1 1. Cooper, 130. 2. Ibid., 140. 3. Ibid., page unknown. 4. Hawkins, “Martin Hawkins on the Starday Label,” 13. 5. Daily, 44. 6. Escott, “The D Singles,” page unknown. 7. Starns, 15. 8. Duff, ix. 9. Ibid., x. 10. Escott, Tattooed on Their Tongues, 69 11. Brown, “On the Road with Blackie Crawford and the Western Cherokees: The Bobby Black Interview,” 3. 12. Jones, Carter, 45. 13. Millar, “Talk Back with Noack Pt. 1,” 18. 14. Hawkins, “Martin Hawkins on the Starday Label,” 12. CHAPTER 2 1. Gillett, 28. 2. Horstman, 224. 3. Escott, Tattooed on Their Tongues, 70. 4. Daily, 46. 5. Jones, Carter, 46. 6. Hawkins, “Martin Hawkins on the Starday Label,” 12. 7. Pugh, 3. 8. Millar, Topping, page unknown 9. Ibid. 10. Tottenham, unknown. 11. Davidson. 12. Pierce, “Letter to Professional Vocalists and Bandleaders.” 13. Hawkins, “Martin Hawkins on the Starday Label,” 11. 14. Pugh, 1–2. CHAPTER 3 1. Escott, Tattooed on Their Tongues, 72. 2. Escott, Cup of Loneliness, 10. 3. Ibid., 12. 172 NOTES 4. Jones, Carter, 61–62. 5. Hawkins, “Martin Hawkins on the Starday Label,” 13. 6. Ibid. 7. Billboard, “Starday Moves to Nashville,” page unknown. 8. Millar, “Talk Back with Noack Pt. 1,” 6 9. Dean, 67. 10. Gutterman, 15. 11. Reid, “Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Gang 1953–1958, 1959,” 1 12. Reid, “Jim Eanes and the Shenandoah Valley Boys,” 5 13. Escott, Tattooed on Their Tongues, 72. CHAPTER 4 1. Reid, liner notes to Buzz Busby CD Goin’ Home, 6. CHAPTER 5 1. Pierce, personal letter to Loyd Howell, 1. 2. “Bluegrass—The Brightest, Freshest Sound,” 84. 3. Pierce, Duke of Paducah LP liner notes, 1. 4. Pierce, “Superiority Via Specialization,” 97. CHAPTER 6 1. Pierce, “Let’s Stick Together,” 161. 2. Pierce, “Letter to Distributors.” 3. “Hollywood calls . . . Nashville Answers,” 70. 4. Advertisement, 1967 Billboard The World of Country Music, 129. 5. “Starday’s Country Music Record Club Spearheads Another Year,” 12. 6. “More Country Music Success at Starday in 1965,” 8. 7. Daughtrey, 7. 8. “Don Pierce and Starday Records,” 24. 9. “More Country Music Success at Starday in 1965,” 8. CHAPTER 7 1. Pierce, letter to March Bluegrass Unlimited, 8–9. 2. Rosenberg, Don Pierce: The Rise and Fall of Starday, 4–5. 3. Pierce, letter to June Bluegrass Unlimited, 7–8. 4. Neely, private memo. ...

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