De Forest ??? you must mean DeFord Bailey someone that never got a fair shake while he was with The Opry. What a pity that he wasn't given fair recognition while he was living and having to get by as a shoe shiner on the Nashville streets.

Does this mean that the Hall of Fame is giving old timey music more recognition at last. Must say I was impressed with all the technology when I visited the place a couple of years back but the real roots of the music was given only a small amount of recognition compared to all the glamour and glitz crap.

Not only that very soon after my visit I learned that long serving and very knowledgeable librarians and curators in the reord library that contains all the wonderful old 78@s had been dismissed.

I tend to think of it after that as the Country Music Hall of Shame.