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Wednesday 30 March 2016

Daniels, Travis & Foster to join Country Music Hall of Fame

KRISTIN M. HALL tives. shoulders that I stand on,” Fiddler Charlie Daniels, left, singer Randy Travis, center, and
Associated Press Travis was inducted in the Daniels said. “The artists producer and label owner Fred Foster pose Tuesday, March 29,
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — modern artist category. He who blazed a trail down 2016, in Nashville, Tenn., after it was announced they will be in-
Fiddler Charlie Daniels, broke out as a singer on millions of miles of two-lane ducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
singer Randy Travis, and his 1986 album, “Storms of blacktop to take this music
producer and label owner Life,” which was the first of to the people who loved Associated Press
Fred Foster are joining the six straight platinum certi- it, the common man, the
Country Music Hall of Fame. fications. He also had an people in the far-flung cor- day would never come is and you are inducted into
The announcement was acting career in the 1990s, ners of this nation.” an understatement,” Foster the Country Music Hall of
made Tuesday by the Hall appearing in dozens of Fred Foster moved Monu- said. “If you are involved in Fame, it can’t get any bet-
of Fame and Museum, films and television roles. ment Records from Wash- country music in any way ter than that.”q
along with the Country Mu- Daniels, 79, who was in- ington, D.C., to Nashville in
sic Association, at a press ducted in the veteran 1960 where he signed Roy
conference in Nashville, artist category, is a multi- Orbison. That led to some
Tennessee. They will be in- instrumentalist best known of the singer’s most iconic
ducted during a ceremony as the fiddler behind the recordings including “Only
later this year. classic “The Devil Went the Lonely,” ‘’Crying” and
Travis, who is recovering Down to Georgia.” As the “Oh, Pretty Woman.”
from a stroke suffered in bandleader of the Charlie Foster, 84, also signed a
2013, is a seven-time Gram- Daniels Band, he blends young Dolly Parton and
my winner whose hits in- country, boogie and blues worked with several coun-
clude “Forever and Ever, music. He got his start in try stars including Willie Nel-
Amen” and “Three Wood- Nashville as a talented ses- son, Ray Price and Jeannie
en Crosses.” Travis, 56, sion player, including play- Seely. But it was his work
spoke a few words at the ing on records like “Nash- with Kris Kristofferson that
press conference, saying ville Skyline” by Bob Dylan turned the songwriter into a
“thank you” when he got a and Ringo Starr’s “Beau- star. He even shares a co-
standing ovation from oth- coups of Blues.” writer credit on the iconic
er Hall of Fame musicians “I am very humbled this “Me and Bobby McGee.”
and music industry execu- morning to think about the “To say that I thought this

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