February 2025 – Diane Diekman

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 19 February 2025

February 19, 2025/by admin

Happy birthday to my sister, Lorraine “Kayo” Paver, known in our family as the “blizzard baby” who came home from the hospital to sleep in a dresser drawer. CONCERT REVIEW – CLINT BLACK A younger-generation version of Dolly Parton opened the sold-out show for Clint Black at the Washington Pavilion on Valentine’s Day in Sioux […]

Diane’s Country Music Newsletter — 5 February 2025

February 5, 2025/by admin

NEWS Terry Smith, 80, of Nashville, Tennessee, died January 21, 2025. Born in Oklahoma in 1944 and reared in Texas, he earned a bachelor’s degree in education at North Texas State University. In 1972 he moved to Nashville to pursue a songwriting career and teach middle school English. He released thirteen albums of original material […]