March 2015 – Diane Diekman

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter – 25 March 2015

March 25, 2015/by admin

NEWS Jerry Brightman (1953-2015) One of Buck Owens’s Buckaroos, Gerald “Jerry” Warner Brightman, 61, died at his home in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, on March 9. At age 14 he joined the Wheeling Jamboree staff band in Wheeling, West Virginia. After Buck Owens asked him to play steel guitar on some recording sessions, he became a […]

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter – 11 March 2015

March 11, 2015/by admin

FEATURED ARTIST – BILL ANDERSON “We’re still iced in down here,” Bill Anderson told me on the phone last week. He said Nashville had received snow on top of the layer of ice already on the ground, and it was “supposed to go down to single digits tonight.” I told him the temperature here had […]