John Lingan writes for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Pitchfork, and The Oxford American. He is also the author of Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk, and lives in Maryland with his wife and three children.
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Winchester, Virginia is an emblematic American town. When John Lingan first traveled there, it was to seek out Jim McCoy: local honky-tonk owner and the DJ who first gave airtime to a brassy-voiced singer known as Patsy Cline, setting her on a course for ... SEE MORE