Notícias

By mid-1984, Texas honky-tonk heartthrob George Strait was on a hot streak at country radio. Since his first Number One hit, “Fool Hearted Memory,” in 1982, he’d had four more chart-toppers, all of them in a row. Thirty-five years ago today, on June 25th, 1984, he was at Nashville’s Sound Stage recording studio on Music Row, recording another. But had circumstances been a bit different, the song could have been a major hit for the artist Strait first heard singing it.

Although the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth are just 30 miles apart,...

Whitey Shafer, the songwriter of numerous hits for George Strait, Lefty Frizzell, Moe Bandy and others, died on Saturday following a long illness, family friend Corey Frizzell has confirmed. He was 84.

Born Sanger D. Shafer on October 24th, 1934, in Whitney, Texas, Shafer grew up in a gospel-singing family but didn’t write his first song until he was 30 years old. The nickname “Whitey” was bestowed on him during high school when he was employed by a local ironworking company. Following a stint in the Army and a series of jobs...