On this day (February 25) in 1932, Faron Young was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was a member of country legend Webb Pierce’s band early in his career. Later, he relocated to Nashville, where he ...
Faron “The Singing Sheriff” Young, 64, a principal god of country music’s so-called Golden Age of the 1950s and ’60s, got shortchanged by fate in the matter of latter-day recognition. Although a ...