Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum • Lorianne Crook • 2023
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1h 14m
Lorianne Crook is one half of the broadcast hosting duo Crook & Chase, as well as a television and radio producer, a writer, and the president of Jim Owens Entertainment. She was inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2013; received the Grand Ole Opry’s Bob Kingsley Living Legend Award in 2017; has won numerous accolades and nominations from the Academy of Country Music, Country Music Association, and New York Film Festival; and has earned other honors for her hosting, production, and scriptwriting work. In 2023, “RadioInk” magazine named Crook among the most influential women in radio for the tenth time. The program, hosted by the Museum’s Angela Stefano Zimmer, was recorded on August 15, 2023, and was supported by Gibson Gives, the philanthropic arm of Gibson, the venerable American instrument brand.
During the program, Crook discusses her early life in Nashville, the origins of her career, her marriage to and working relationship with Jim Owens, interviewing and befriending country artists, becoming a celebrity herself, and highlights from throughout her lengthy career.
Louise Scruggs (1927–2006) was married to Country Music Hall of Fame member and banjo great Earl Scruggs. In the mid-1950s, she began booking and managing Flatt & Scruggs and their band, the Foggy Mountain Boys. The first woman in country music to assume these roles, she astutely guided her husband’s career for half a century. The Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum was first presented in 2007; past honorees include Kay Clary, Bebe Evans, Bonnie Garner, Dixie Hall, Cindy Mabe, Mary Martin, Bev Paul, Nancy Shapiro, Denise Stiff, Liz Thiels, Traci Thomas, Sarah Trahern, Marcie Allen Van Mol, Jo Walker-Meador, and Kay West.
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