Country Music Hall of Fame Archives

A young Chrissie Dickinson, looking directly into the camera and wearing a hat and a jacket with a pocket square while touching one of her lapels with a leather-gloved hand

Chrissie Dickinson died with too much writing yet to do and too much art yet to create

by Cynthia Jenkins May 31, 2022June 1, 2022

Chrissie Dickinson was a multimedia artist and award-winning country and rock ‘n’ roll critic whose work appeared in the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Tribune, Newcity, the Boston Phoenix, the Washington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. She died on May 19, 2022, from heart failure. She is remembered here by friend and creative partner Cynthia […]

Lavender Country founder Patrick Haggerty with Chicago native Bobby Taylor, his bandmate in Memory Lane

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Patrick Haggerty carries on the spirit of Lavender Country

by Leor Galil June 18, 2014June 1, 2022

Forty years later, the man behind the first gay country record teams up with a former Chicagoan to reach out to another marginalized population.