Charline Arthur & Helen Hall - Photo courtesy of David Dennard, Dragon Street Records
Charline Arthur
ARTHUR, CHARLINE (1929–1987). Charline Arthur, honky-tonk musician, was born Charline Highsmith in a railroad boxcar in Henrietta, Texas, on September 2, 1929. She was the second of twelve children of Jefferson Benjamin and Edna Mae (Wortham) Highsmith. Her father was a harmonica-playing Pentecostal preacher; and her mother sang and played piano and guitar...
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