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Remember When the Judds Changed Country Music With Their Debut Album?

The Judds may have seemed like one of country music’s unlikeliest success stories when they released their debut album on Oct. 15, 1984, but within the year, the mother-daughter duo of Naomi and ...
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When Dire Straits Went Country: 3 of the Band’s Classics by Waylon Jennings, The Judds, and Lukas Nelson

Dire Straits‘ Mark Knopfler always had a deep affinity for country music, citing legends like Willie Nelson and the pedal steel guitar work of Jerry Byrd and Paul Franklin, who worked on the band’s ...