March 2016 – Diane Diekman

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter – 23 March 2016

March 23, 2016/by admin

FEATURED ARTIST – BECKY HOBBS I’ve been a fan of Becky Hobbs since hearing her songs on the radio while I lived in Oklahoma City in the late ’70s. We’re the same age, and I identified with her music. I’ve played All Keyed Up many, many times since the album came out in 1988. I […]

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter – 9 March 2016

March 9, 2016/by admin

NEWS Sonny James 1928-2016 Sonny James, 87, died February 22 in hospice in Nashville, Tennessee. James Hugh “Sonny Boy” Loden, born May 1, 1928, in Hackleburg, Alabama, received his first mandolin at age three. His father made it from a molasses bucket. He also learned to play guitar and fiddle, and became a teenaged fiddle […]