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ABOUT THIS SITE

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Country music enthusiast Stan Laundon created this site on February 25, 2002.

The BBC in England employed Stan for almost 24 years between September 1970 and February 1994. For most of this time he produced and presented a country music programme on BBC Radio Cleveland in the North East of England called "Country Time" which ran for 21 years. He only bought a computer in July 2001 and since then has written a book called "Chasing Fireflies." After taking early retirement and spending thirteen years living on the Costa Blanca in Spain, he has since returned to his hometown of Hartlepool, which is on England's north east coast. It was during his time in Spain that he started to rekindle his interest in country music by checking on a few of his old friends. One of them is singer/songwriter, Jimmy Payne, who Stan has admired since his days in radio having worked with him on a number of occasions during his time at the BBC. Whilst surfing the web and checking on one or two of his own favourites such as George Jones, John Prine, Jerry Reed and Tanya Tucker, Stan noticed there was a lack of information on the net about Jimmy Payne so he contacted him at his home in Nashville and asked his permission to set up a website for him. He agreed - and thanks to him and his family, this site was created. Coincidentally, this site was established just as Jimmy and three of his songwriting friends, Dick Feller, Danny Dill and Don Wayne – known as the Three Chord Heroes - were starting a series of concert dates singing their own songs that were made famous by other people.

A personal note from Stan Laundon

I would like to thank Jimmy and his family for their patience and help in establishing the Jimmy Payne website, to Jim Glaser for his valuable assistance to both Jimmy and myself and last, but not least, to Per Ivar Tautra, the webmaster of the Dick Feller website for his knowledge, guidance and understanding - and helping me get this thing off the ground.

Created, written and edited in England by Stan Laundon

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