Last updated: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
COUNTRY STAR DICKENS HONOURED
Pint-sized country music legend LITTLE JIMMY DICKENS has become one of the first inductees to the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.
Dickens joined folk singer Hazel Dickens, songwriter Billy Edd Wheeler, Bill Withers and composer George Crumb as the living inductees of the museum's first class on Friday (16Nov07).
The deceased inductees included singer Blind Alfred Reed, fiddler Clark Kessinger and country singer Molly O'Day. Hazel Dickens and Kathy Mattea were among the performers at the ceremony, which ended with all inductees performing Withers' 1972 hit Lean On Me.
Source: WENN
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