Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 26 March 2014

NEWS Courtney Cash, a granddaughter of Tommy Cash, was stabbed to death and stuffed inside a large wooden box in her home near Nashville a week ago. Her boyfriend, who received multiple stab wounds, managed to take the couple’s 20-month-old daughter and drive himself to a hospital. He provided the information that led authorities to […]

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 19 March 2014

FEATURED ARTIST Johnny Seay hit the Billboard charts with “Frankie’s Man Johnny” in 1959 as a Louisiana Hayride regular. He moved to Nashville, recorded for Capitol Records, and toured under the management of Hubert Long for the next decade.  In 1967, he costarred with Tex Ritter, Al Hurt, and Faron Young in Leroy Van Dyke’s […]

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 12 March 2014

NEWS Mel Tillis, age 81, underwent heart surgery in Nashville this past weekend and is recovering. His daughter Pam called it “a routine heart procedure.” Mel had to cancel four shows.

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 5 March 2014

NEWS The four daughters of Tammy Wynette are asking for public support as they try to get their mother’s stage name restored on her burial crypt at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville. Two years ago, they agreed to change the name temporarily for legal reasons during a planned challenge to the sale of intellectual property. […]