![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, he has continued to write informally and acted as a songwriter, co-producer and promoter for traditional country artist Vernon Oxford, becoming especially active in this capacity from 2003 to 2008. Corbin published Storm Over Nashville: A Case Against Modern Country Music, which chronicles the battle between “traditionalist-purists” and “modern” country music groups during the 1970s. He served as editor of Music City News in 19, and for longer at the News Diary. He also conducted Dolly Parton’s first major interview for a country music publication. He interviewed Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Jimmy Skinner, and others at the height of their popularity. Finding little success, he took work again as a journalist, writing for both Music City News and the Donelson News Diary. Corbin moved to the Nashville area to pursue a career as a country music songwriter. He started his career at the Columbia Gazette in South Carolina and the Lake City Reporter in Florida. Everett Corbin, originally from Hampton, South Carolina, was a prolific songwriter employed as a journalist from 1961 to 1980. ![]()
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