Leon Payne

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... a student of Leaverman's, Leon Payne, becomes this sort of legendary country songwriter.

He wrote Lost Highway for Hank Williams, and probably a lot of other s- songs that he didn't put his name on, that he sold for pocket change, uh, and-

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You have to let people know that you're looking for information, and then they'll give it to you.

But if you don't do that, nobody's gonna give you anything.

So once it, once it became known that I wanted to find out about this stuff, and then, uh, Christie Sprinkle, uh, she told me about Leon Payne, and then the, the, the, the Whistler, um, uh, L- Lowery, Fred Lowery, and other people that, that went to the blind school.

And, you know, Leon Payne of course was the, the most successful.

Austrian-born conductor who was famous for leading elite institutions like the Boston Symphony Orchestra and also the Metropolitan Opera.

Peter Hall passed away in 2017 at the age of 86 from dementia he was an internationally renowned theater and opera director who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company and also directed landmark operatic productions worldwide Leon Payne passed away in 1969 at the age of 52 following a heart attack.

He was known as the Blind Balladeer.

He was a legendary country music artist who wrote a lot of big hits for the genre, including Hank Williams' song Lost Highway.