Of course they did…Blazing Saddles even had a black sheriff 
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Not sure what this means for my 87 year-old mother in law.
Perhaps she died of being 86 and forgot to mention it?
But not ones set in the ante bellum era.
maybe she skipped a year?
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Well, if you’re going to be that specific…
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Still waiting for Hird’s convict ancestry to get recognition in the annals of Australian history - George Grey, an Irish Defender sentenced for the term of his natural life, came on the hellship Britannia in 1796
Tell SWMNBN. She’ll lap it up.
Charlie Pride is pretty sad one for me. Old bloke can well and truly kiss an angel now.
Haven’t you joined the dots with his grandfather getting Ian Brown Paper Bags Wilson censured by the VFL when he was Richmond President? She evened the score.
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Wasn’t aware. Thanks.
A bit like white people doing blues, I guess.
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Black Roots White Flowers - a history of Australian jazz, by Andrew Bissett
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■■■■. One of my favourites as a kid.
I wonder if he died of the long-term complications of being 86?
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He never gets culled from my bookshelf. A Small Town in Germany is one of my favourites.
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LeCarre was, apparently, my favourite author. I read and collected versions of every novel he ever wrote. Happily, his last was a good ‘un. Thanks and RIP.
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What? Are you trying to segregate music now?
FYI, the late, great Ray Charles did a C & W album some 60 years ago, for which he was roundly and unfairly criticized. When asked why he had recorded a C & W album, he answered that he liked the stories that those songs told.
Probably like these guys doing heavy rock
Or this guy also doing county
or these guys singing soul music
etc etc
No-one is to add a Smiley to these posts.
I’ve got Agents Running in the Field sitting on the table, but I feel he might have written another since…like Philip Kerr whose publishers punched out a couple after he finished his Bernie Gunther books.
The last one I read was A Legacy of Spies, which was a wrap-up of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.
There was one I read about 20 years ago which I couldn’t follow. He kept swapped between time points in the same chapter with no indication he was doing so.
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He is on a par with Eric Ambler for the spy genre