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Jeff Griffith in Dallas Morning News – Keeping Tradition Alive

November 29th 2007 in Americana, Country Music

I had this article from the Dallas Morning News forwarded to me. I love Jeff Griffith’s music, it’s like the classic sounds of Charlie Rich and Charlie Pride. It’s refreshing when someone in the business has the cajones to say something like this:

“You’ve got to stand for something, and I stand for good country music,” he says by phone from his San Antonio home. “I’m
not going to let nobody come in and mold me into what I should do. I can only sing and do what I feel. Every time I travel
and perform, people are starved to death for that traditional sound.”

He’s eager to feed.

“There are people out there loving this. It ain’t got nothing to do with the money. It ain’t got nothing to do with being a
star. It’s about Jeff Griffith being known for doing traditional country music.”

Amen, hoss. Amen…

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