80 years ago today, Vern Gosdin was born in Woodland, Alabama. He would be known for his nickname “The Voice” as he had a distinguishable vocals when he sang. You believed the sorrow that he sang and the lonesome soul. Vern Gosdin grew up singing in church and would sing
Read MoreOak Ridge Boys at Renfro Valley – Photo by Jessica Blankenship History is always being made when it comes to the Oak Ridge Boys. Saturday night at Renfro Valley Entertainment Center was no exception to that. This year, Renfro Valley is celebrating 75 years of honoring music. Throughout the night, Joe
Read MoreBack in time in 1988, Waylon Jennings, as well as his wife Jessi Colter and son Shooter Jennings, who was 9 years old at the time, invited some pretty cool guests to their home. Those guests were the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team. They were visiting Nashville to take on Vanderbilt
Read MoreBlack River Publishing’s GRAMMY-winning songwriter Josh Osborne was honored in his hometown this week in celebration of the joint resolution passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate adding the Kentucky native’s name to the US 23 Country Music Highway in Pike County. The home state honor was hosted
Read MoreI always love hearing good news about good folks here in Kentucky. Bobby Mackey recently had a stretch of highway named after him. Now that is pretty cool because not that many country music singers can say they have a highway named after them. Click here for the link of
Read MoreToday, the website for Tammy Wynette, the Queen of Country Music, revealed that she is one of several music icons that will be honored with an upcoming U.S. postage stamp. Wynette joins the Father of Bluegrass Music, Bill Monroe, as well as Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, and other music icons
Read MoreThere will never be a timeless voice like that of Johnny Cash. Here is the music video for She Used To Love Me A Lot. It is one of the haunting songs featured on the new album, “Out Among The Stars,” available on March 25, 2014. If you get the
Read MoreA vagabond dreamer, a rhymer and singer of songsSinging to no one and nowhere to really belong I have been a fan of Waylon Jennings for quite some time. There is something about his vocals, his swagger, his guitar playing, and the lyrics that makes anyone a fan of his.
Read MoreThis past Wednesday would have been Johnny Cash’s birthday. On March 1, 1968, Johnny married June Carter at the Methodist Church in Franklin, Kentucky. Carter’s “Ring Of Fire” co-writer Merle Kilgore was best man. While in Nashville this week, I took time to stop by the Johnny Cash Museum on Johnny
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