Country music legend dead at 85
Daily MailA country music icon whose career coincided with Bob Dylan 's died last week, following a battle with a mystery illness. 'Time and again, Mary Martin spotted great talents and elevated their careers,' Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum CEO Kyle Young said in a statement posted to Instagram Saturday, 17 years after the exec's own induction. 'At Warner Bros., she signed future Country Music Hall of Fame member Emmylou Harris, at RCA she helped sign and develop Clint Black and Lorrie Morgan, and she encouraged a young Keith Urban to move from Australia to Nashville. I sort of suggested to Bob that he could work with me at Warner Bros. 'He was sort of getting ready to take a journey from Columbia, this would be a great time for him to come work for Warner Bros. She went on to chide the 'bloody gatekeepers' that presumably kept that letter away from the folk icon, which she said would go on to become commonplace in the industry.
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