. - of course, charley pride. - (singing) we'll walk the fields together - charley pride had 29 number ones on country radio. - he succeeded in spite of the fact that he was black, not because he was black, you know what i mean? - if you take hank williams, sr., for example, he fused the blues with country music. - (singing) i tried so hard, my dear - so it has a very inherently black inspiration in our genre that happened with the godfather of country music. so this started a long, long time ago. it seemed to be that we've gotten away from that somewhere along the way. - we have to remember it is an industry. people who are in power decided this is what the nashville sound is. - nashville is the gateway to country music. it is not only the center of country the way, say, the movie and television business is centered in hollywood. it really is kind of the arbiter of what country music is. there's no one faction that controls nashville wholly, but it's kind of an industry that takes care of its own. - the idea that it only happens in country music is a little misleading. there is defini