February 2019 – Diane Diekman

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 20 February 2019

February 20, 2019/by admin

This week we especially remember Faron Young, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on February 25, 1932. He would be turning 87 on Monday. IN THE SPOTLIGHT – HILDA YOUNG AND ALANA YOUNGWhen I tried to catch up with Hilda Young and daughter Alana for a telephone conversation, it took several attempts to find the busy pair […]

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 6 February 2019

February 6, 2019/by admin

NEWS Harold Bradley (1926-2019) Harold Bradley, 93, died peacefully in his sleep on January 31 in Nashville. The Tennessean reports he grew up in Nashville and played the banjo as his first instrument. He and his older brother, Owen Bradley, opened Bradley Film and Recording on Sixteenth Avenue South in 1955. Columbia Records purchased the […]