Charley Pride: I’m Just Me traces the improbable journey of Charley Pride, from his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in segregated Sledge, Mississippi to his career as a Negro American League baseball player and his meteoric rise as a trailblazing country music superstar.
The new documentary reveals how Pride’s love for music led him from the Delta to a larger, grander world.
- 00:00 Childhood
- 05:27 Finding baseball
- 09:15 Getting drafted
- 12:14 Early music
- 23:33 Charley Pride’s first single
- 26:35 Facing discrimination
- 36:26 Mental health challenges
- 39:55 Charley Pride and Dolly Parton
- 46:16 Charlie Pride’s legacy
