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Author: Brad Wheeler
Publication Date: January 9, 2026 - 07:00
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Travelling balladeer Stu Phillips journeyed from Western Canada to the Grand Ole Opry
January 9, 2026
While working at Calgary’s CFAC-AM in 1958, on-air personality and country singer Stu Phillips ducked down to the building’s coffee shop one day. He was young, brightly talented and restlessly ambitious. On a whim, he had his tea leaves read by a woman.
The beverage-based prognosticator told him that within three days he would meet a blond man who would change his life forever. He laughed and quickly forgot about it, but some 72 hours later, his manager called him into his office to meet someone.
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