How Jimmy Carter's love of music helped launch his presidential campaign
Former President Jimmy Carter's close friends included the likes of Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman brothers.
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How Jimmy Carter's love of music helped launch his presidential campaign
He had served in the Georgia State Senate and as governor of Georgia ... was his friendships with musicians like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman Brothers. "I was practically a non-entity ...
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Jimmy Carter, 39th U.S. President and Champion of Musicians, Dies at 100
Hailing from a peanut-farming family in rural Georgia and a distant cousin of ... He was especially close with Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, and the Allman Brothers. Carter’s genuine passion for ...
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On Jimmy Carter’s Deep and Historic Connection With Musicians: Why He Is Remembered as the ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll President’
A young Jimmy Carter was no stranger to gospel music growing up in the small rural town of Plains, Georgia during the ... “I would play Willie Nelson music primarily,” Carter said, of ...
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Robbie Robertson on Jimmy Carter: ‘A Kind, Wonderful Human Being’
Already a Bob Dylan fan, the then-governor of Georgia was in the audience ... his music-fan bona fides by hanging out with Willie Nelson, Aretha Franklin, the Allman Brothers Band, the Atlanta ...