*Spoiler Alert* for those that are DVR'ing it and haven't watched yet:
Really enjoyed last night. I'd never heard about Roger Miller taking part in the search for Patsy's plane and basically finding the crash site from a lookout tower. I also never really paid much attention to Patsy. I mean I knew some of her songs, and of course the Willie Nelson Crazy connection, but what really struck me was how smooth her voice was. Even my wife watching with me commented on her voice. The contrast of vocal styles and quality between Loretta Lynn and her is as wide as the Appalachian mountains itself, and that's not a knock on Loretta, but it would have been interesting to see what direction Patsy had gone had she lived.
I guess I need to add Luther Perkins as another guitar influence. We had the 8 track of Story Songs of the Trains and Rivers that was a compilation of the JC and the Tennesee Two singles they released on Sun Records. Wreck of the Old 97, Hey Porter, and Rock Island Line still rate as some of my all time favorite Cash songs.