January 2017 – Diane Diekman

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 18 January 2017

January 18, 2017/by admin

FEATURED ARTIST – RONI STONEMAN Roni Stoneman is recovering from her October knee replacement surgery. All those years of carrying around a 30-pound banjo had damaged it. She was back on the stage for the first time on New Year’s Eve when she and sister Donna hosted the Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree. After three months […]

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 4 January 2017

January 4, 2017/by admin

NEWS George Edwards (1937-2016) Sherie Edwards reports the death of her father, George Edwards, on December 29, in Hendersonville, Tennessee, following a brief illness and 16 years after a stroke. “He loved playing steel guitar almost as much as he loved his family,” she wrote on the Steel Guitar Forum, “and his steel guitar friends […]