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Updated Friday, March 19, 2010 10:23 am TWN, AP

Country music impresario Johnnie High dead at 80

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Johnnie High, a Texas country music showman who gave such performers LeAnn Rimes and Boxcar Willie their early exposure, has died at the age of 80.

High's daughter, Luanne Dorman, says her father died Wednesday after battling heart disease.

The impresario of “Johnnie High's Country Music Revue” began his Saturday show in 1974 after converting an old movie theater in Grapevine, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, into the Grapevine Opry. There, he gave Boxcar Willie and Rimes, then a child, some of their first stage experience.

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