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Here’s my dad Hoyt Axton & his band on the tv show “New Country” in 1987 playing the hit song my grandma wrote for ELVIS PRESLEY called “Heartbreak Hotel.” “New Country” was one of the various shows on TNN (The Nashville Network) that my dad appeared on. TNN was a cable network in the 1980’s that focused on country music. As most of you know, “Heartbreak Hotel” was a song that my grandma Mae Boren Axton co-wrote in 1955 with her songwriting partner Tommy Durden. They wrote it for Elvis, who had