Country music singer mac wiseman
Country music singer mac wiseman
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Mac Wiseman, country and bluegrass great, dead at 93
When the first loaf of sliced bread was sold — the summer of 1928 — Mac Wiseman was already 3 years old.
He was born in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where his school bus was a mule-drawn wagon, and died Sunday at the age of 93.
In between, Wiseman did just about everything a person could do in the music business: worked as a disc jockey, promoter and record executive; recorded more than 65 albums; helped found the Country Music Association and served as its first treasurer; received a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship; and influenced greats like Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Alison Krauss.
"Mac is one of the heroes," Kristofferson, whose song "Me and Bobby McGee" was among Wiseman's favorites to sing, told The Tennessean in 2012.
"Having Mac cut 'Bobby McGee' was one of the highlights of my life."
Dubbed "The Voice with a Heart" decades ago by a disc jockey, Wiseman had a light and limber voic