While a struggling songwriter in 1969, former Vietnam War helicopter pilot Kris Kristofferson landed a National Guard chopper on Johnny Cash’s lawn to personally deliver a demo of his music. The stunt worked, and Cash’s cover of “Sunday Morning Coming Down” became a #1 hit in 1970.

The open-tuning finger-picking guitar that delta bluesman Skip James played was so unusual that the guitar style is now called “Bentonia” after the town he lived in.

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