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Leon Payne

Leon Payne

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Birthday Jun 15, 1917
Died Sep 11, 1969 (52)
Birthplace Alba, Texas, USA
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Updated Aug 21, 2025
Entry Date Aug 21, 2025
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Leon Roger Payne, "the Blind Balladeer", was an American country music singer/songwriter. He was blind in one eye at birth, and lost the sight in the other eye in early childhood. Payne wrote hundreds of country songs in a prolific career that lasted from 1941 until his death in 1969. He is perhaps ... best known for his hits "I Love You Because", "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart", "Psycho", "Worst of Luck" and the 1948 song "Lost Highway", a song made famous by Hank Williams in 1949.

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