James “Sandy” Pinkard, a famed Nashville songwriter who also recorded parody versions of some of country’s biggest hits, has died, according to Music Row. He was 78. A native of Abbeville, La., ...

Poole didn’t come to Nashville with the ambition of becoming the Weird Al of country music. Instead, he was chasing his dream of being a country singer. However, in 1993, he had failed to break into ...