Rod Brasfield - Miss. Country Music Trail (sitios de interés)

Born in Smithville, Rod Brasfield was the Grand Ole Opry's top male comedian from 1947-1958, a beloved sad sack foil for Red Foley and Hank Williams and a comic sparring partner for Minnie Pearl and June Carter. He played dramatic and comic roles in traveling tent shows before his Opry fame, and appeared as Andy Griffith’s sidekick in the Hollywood drama “A Face in the Crowd”. Brasfield was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame posthumously, in 1987.