FEATURED ARTIST Johnny Seay hit the Billboard charts with “Frankie’s Man Johnny” in 1959 as a Louisiana Hayride regular. He moved to Nashville, recorded for Capitol Records, and toured under the management of Hubert Long for the next decade. In 1967, he costarred with Tex Ritter, Al Hurt, and Faron Young in Leroy Van Dyke’s […]
NEWS Mel Tillis, age 81, underwent heart surgery in Nashville this past weekend and is recovering. His daughter Pam called it “a routine heart procedure.” Mel had to cancel four shows.
NEWS The four daughters of Tammy Wynette are asking for public support as they try to get their mother’s stage name restored on her burial crypt at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville. Two years ago, they agreed to change the name temporarily for legal reasons during a planned challenge to the sale of intellectual property. […]
My Faron Young/Marty Robbins e-mail newsletter now contains a variety of country music bits. Please forward to anyone who might like to read this. Today would have been the 82nd birthday of Johnny Cash, tomorrow would be Elizabeth Taylor’s 82nd, and yesterday was Faron Young’s 82nd. NEWS Penny DeHaven died Sunday at age 65 after a long struggle […]
NEWS Country Weekly reports that Suzy Bogguss has a new album, Lucky, that covers her favorite Merle Haggard songs. The album’s title was inspired by “I Always Get Lucky With You.” She chose “If We Make It Through December” as a favorite since her teen years, when her dad gave her his old car and […]
My Faron Young/Marty Robbins e-mail newsletter now consists of a variety of country music bits. Please forward this to anyone who might like to be added to the mailing list. NEWS Randy Travis is “getting his voice back now, little by little,” Randy’s dad, Harold Traywick, told Closer magazine last week. An unidentified friend was quoted as […]
By Roman Krznaric How Should We Live? Great Ideas from the Past for Everyday Life was first published in 2011 and is being reissued in 2014. “I believe the future of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past,” writes author Roman Krznaric in the preface. “If we explore how people […]
NEWS Garth Brooks sold 240,000 tickets in 90 minutes last Thursday. Tickets for two July concerts in Dublin, Ireland, went on sale at 9 am. They sold out so fast a third date was scheduled, and those tickets went on sale at 9.30 am, both online and at Ticketmaster outlets around the country. Police had […]
By William Seidman and Richard Grbavac Organizations usually have a few star performers who are more motivated and dedicated and deliver better results than the others. What if it were possible for every person in your company to be a star performer? The Star Factor: Discover What Your Top Performers Do Differently–and Inspire a New […]
By Eve Haas The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman’s Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret is a nonfiction mystery, with history and aspects of a love story, all wrapped up with a satisfying conclusion. Eve Haas spent thirty years searching for an explanation as to why her great-great-grandfather’s family had apparently disappeared from […]