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Big Bill Lister - History of a Country Music Pioneer |
 | | Lister appeared to suffer, rather, from the opposite, from the fact that he was not West Coast-based in the years when the label's country division was firmly based in California and tended, some feel, to nurture nearby artists at the expense of those based farther East. |
 | | Lister's original recording career lasted less than four years (and all the sides from the fourth of those years have remained unissued until now), though he returned to recording for an unusual, effective one-off album in the 1980s, then again in 1998 to record a live tribute to Hank Williams. |
 | | Lister didn't have anything, however, he recalls that Williams was recording the night before his October 26th session and that he asked for Hank's help at that time, though there's no evidence of a Williams MGM session around that time. |
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