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Texas Country Reporter turns fifty in October 2022. Each week until then, we’ll share classic episodes from the show’s history and behind-the-scenes reflections from TCR’s creator and host, Bob Phillips. Most Texas towns have a local hero or two, someone that everyone knows and looks up to. Sometimes that person is an elected official, or maybe it’s the owner of an important business or even a big celebrity.In Lockney, it’s the piano teacher.Lucy Dean Record has taught more than two thousand people in town how to play the piano. Two thousand students sounds like a lot, but consider this: that is more than the population of Lockney by a couple hundred people. But, then again, Lucy has been teaching for more than seventy years.You would think that a piano…

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