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Pickin' Grinnin' and Giving

by Pam Windsor

Even though 2007 marks his 60th year as a performer, Roy Clark is as excited as ever about making music.

first appeared: 6/10/2007

Trent Willmon Contest Winners

The cold rain and choppy water didn't stop two Kansas City natives from enjoying their fishing trip with country music star Trent Willmon.

first appeared: 5/15/2007

Alabama Goes Back to Church

by Chris Neal

Randy Owen, lead singer of the country group Alabama, had a couple of very good reasons for wanting to make a CD of gospel music.

first appeared: 4/22/2007

Sharing His Faith

by Beverly Keel

Until they saw him on television playing the bumbling but loveable farmhand Eb on Green Acres in the late 1960s, almost no one in Tom Lester’s hometown of Laurel, Miss., thought he would become a successful actor in Hollywood.

first appeared: 3/4/2007

Spreading the Chicken House Gospel

by Audrey T. Hingley

In 1973, Ray Pollard allowed a local gospel group to use the vacant chicken shed behind his house in Montpelier, Va., for a practice session. Word got around, and about 35 people showed up to enjoy the music.

first appeared: 2/25/2007

Singing the Language of Love

by Cynthia Rubin

At the Sarasota Memorial Nursing Home Center in Sarasota, Fla. (pop. 52,715), an assembled audience of patients slowly but surely perks up...

first appeared: 2/11/2007

Christmas Classics

by Katie Dodd

When you ask people to name their favorite holiday films and shows, few cite recent releases. Instead, more than any other time of year, Christmas inspires movie fans to gravitate toward the classics that they first saw as children.

first appeared: 12/10/2006

'Little House' Popularity Endures

by Bob Gulla

The Little House on the Prairie television series, which ran for nine seasons beginning in 1974, struck a lasting chord with audiences on its way to becoming one of TV’s most popular and enduring programs.

first appeared: 12/3/2006

Dance Hall Days

by Kristen Tribe

A crowd gathers around the stage at Gruene Hall, singing along as Kelly Willis belts out a tune on a steamy summer night in New Braunfels, Texas (pop. 36,494).

first appeared: 11/26/2006

Making 'Kangaroo' Music

by Bob Gulla

first appeared: 11/12/2006

Rockin' Role Models

by Pam Windsor

Seventh- and eighth-graders pour into the gym at South Laurel Middle School in Laurel, Ky., quickly filling the bleachers.

first appeared: 10/22/2006

Happy Birthday, Dick Tracy

by Beverly Keel

Dick Tracy, the stern, upright, big-city police detective in the bright yellow fedora who snagged some of the most sinister criminals known in the comic-strip world, turns 75 years old this week.

first appeared: 10/1/2006

Collecting Treasures of The King

by j. poet

Robin Rosaaen stands in front of her apartment in suburban San Jose, Calif.

first appeared: 9/10/2006

Vintage Rockers Find a Home

by Alanna Nash

Where have the singing stars of the 1950s and ’60s gone? Many are headliners at Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Entertainment Complex, the newest entertainment venue in Branson, Mo. (pop. 6,050).

first appeared: 9/3/2006

Bill Gaither: The Gospel of Giving

by Beverly Keel

Bill Gaither built his Christian music career on generosity

first appeared: 8/27/2006

Jazzing the Airwaves

by John Berlau

first appeared: 5/21/2006

Singing the Gospel

by Michael McCall

The Blind Boys of Alabama represent one of the most enduring partnerships in American music history, and one that involved overcoming enormous physical and racial obstacles.

first appeared: 5/7/2006

Family-oriented Funnyman

by Melonee McKinney Hurt

first appeared: 3/26/2006

Tejano's Little Miss Dynamite

by Katie Dodd

first appeared: 3/5/2006

Martina McBride

by Beverly Keel

Retaining the values of her Kansas upbringing

first appeared: 2/19/2006

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