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…
Carlene Carter climbed onto the tour bus and saw her mother looking back at her from the luggage. Not literally, but there it all was. The juicer. The coffee maker.…
The cassette on a small park table did what years of hoping in Nashville had not yet done. It brought Capitol Records to Suzy Bogguss. She was singing beside a…
The most important seat in Barbara Mandrellβs life was nowhere near the spotlight. It waited in the balcony of Nashvilleβs Ryman Auditorium where she watched performers work the stage below…
Joyce Milsap Heard Nashville Before It Heard Ronnie The trailer behind the Volkswagen of Joyce carried no trophies and no certainty. It carried clothes, household things, and the unfinished life…
The most important object in this story is not the 2009 CD. It is the original sheet of paper made on a moving bus in 1973. Johnny Cash noticed what…
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