George and Norma Strait did not hide their daughter. They protected her. After Jenifer Strait died in 1986, they refused to turn their grief into a public story. Instead they…
Neal McCoy had just been turned down for a dance when Melinda Williams walked over and changed the story. He was selling women’s shoes in a Texas shopping mall, long…
The photographs were supposed to be proof of success. Jimmy Fortune stood with fans, posing, embracing people and telling audiences how much he appreciated them, doing everything entertainers are expected…
Before Blackbird Studio became a Nashville empire, it was recording gear taking over a family home. Consoles, microphones and machines collected in the basement and garage, anywhere they could fit.…
Lisa Hartman Black was already singing the harmony before she understood she was standing inside the song. Clint Black stood in their kitchen with a guitar strapped around his neck,…
Beside the stage clothes and awards in a Country Music Hall of Fame exhibit, a handmade quilt carried a very different kind of history. It was not evidence of arenas,…
On the drive home from the Choctaw Indian Fair, eleven year old Marty Stuart told his mother exactly what he planned to do one day. One day I am going…
The album everyone expected after their award never came in the 1980s. It arrived in 2014, after Ricky Skaggs and Sharon White had already been married for thirty three years.…
After decades of hit records, television work and awards, Reba McEntire was asked what she was proudest of. She did not choose anything from the career. She chose Shelby. That…
Reba McEntire almost did not finish the drive that changed her life. In early 1975 her mother Jacqueline was taking her toward Nashville to record a demo, yet Reba remained…
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