Persia Woolley as the only child of Lois and William Higman. She studied architecture at University of California, Berkeley, and married James P. Woolley, an engineer in 1956. They had two children before divorcing in 1958; Woolley's experience as a single mother led her to write her first two books, "Creative Survival for Single Mothers" (1974) and "The Custody Handbook" (1979). She married Dr. Edwjard Garwin in 1978. Persia Woolley died October 3, 2017, in Sebastopol, CA, USA, at the age of eighty one. Persia Woolley Persia Woolley (November 8, 1935 – October 3, 2017) was an American author, perhaps best known
I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool ACM Awards organizations. "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" was a song produced by Tom Collins. Mandrell recorded the song as a "live" performance; however the track was actually recorded in the studio with an audience applause track inserted over various sections of the song to fit into the context of the forthcoming live album. The song also featured an uncredited guest appearance on part of the chorus by country vocalist, George Jones. The song was released during a period of rapid growth in the popularity of country music related to a dance-focused form of the genre called neocountry