As one of the best-known honky tonkers to appear in the wake of Hank Williams s death, Faron Young was a popular presence on Nashville s music scene for more than four decades. The Singing Sheriff produced a string of Top Ten hits, placed over eighty songs on the country music charts, and founded the long-running country music periodical Music City News in 1963. Flamboyant, impulsive, and generous, he helped and encouraged a new generation of talented...