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Henry "Redd" Stewart - Country Music Pioneer
Country music performer, songwrier, recording artist, publisher and television entertainer for 60 years. The fiddle-playin', guitar-pickin' cowboy with the "voice as smooth as honey" blazed a glorious trail throughout the 1940's and 50's as a solo artist and lead singer/songwriter with Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys.
Most Memorable Achievements:
Wrote a smash hit for Ernest Tubb in the 1940's - 'A Soldiers Last Letter.' Co-wrote hits such as, 'Bonaparte's Retreat,' the enduring country classic, 'Tennessee Waltz.,' 'Slow Poke,' and 'You Belong to Me' topping the charts in the early 50's. He performed on the Grand Ole Opry for 10 years, and appeared in several of Gene Autry movies in the 1950's. 'The Tennessee Waltz' was named the State song of Tennessee. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1970.) Tennessee Waltz Parkway' opened in Ashland City, TN (his birth place) in his honor (2005)
Nashville Music Garden
Nashville Strikes A Chord
Tennessee Waltz Pkwy Event
New Pictures
Stories of Redd
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