George Jones (click on link to George’s biography in the Country Music Hall of Fame) Anyone who has read my blog for awhile knows that George Jones is my favorite country singer. There is something about not only the range of his voice but the genuine passion with which he sings that has nobody else…
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Women Music March 2022 – Day 23 – Tammy Wynette
Tammy Wynette Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh; b. 5/5/42 – d. 4/6/98) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician and was one of country music’s best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers during the late 1960s and first half of the 1970s. Wynette was called the “First Lady of Country Music”, and her best-known…
Light of Day #3 — “Take Me,” by George Jones
Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling pop music records during his 60-year career. His genres included pop, country, rock, folk, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, folk rock, blues rock, surf, standards, and Tulsa Sound. His collaborations…
#MM Music Challenges — true love’s erasure
Jim Adams is the research-loving host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenges. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on this “The Race is On” and use it for inspiration in any form of creative expression. Lyrics from the song, “written by Don Rollins and first recorded as a demo by Jimmie Gray in 1961”…
