Diane Diekman visited about country music legends Marty Robbins and Faron Young. Diekman is the author of "Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins" and "Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story," both published by the University of Illinois Press. Diekman is in LeMars, Iowa, Wednesday for a festival and book signing. She's also appearing at the South Dakota State Fair in Huron on Friday to give a talk before a Sherwin Linton show. Robbins received the Academy of Country Music's Man of the Decade Award in 1970. Young was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.
Marty Robbins & Faron Young Biographer
