Don Williams – Plays in Franklin, NC (2012)
A Quiet Voice Filled the Mountains More Completely Than Any Shout Ever Could By the time Don Williams arrived in Franklin, North Carolina, in September of 2012, he was no…
A Quiet Voice Filled the Mountains More Completely Than Any Shout Ever Could By the time Don Williams arrived in Franklin, North Carolina, in September of 2012, he was no…
A Voice That Rode Across America Until Silence Became Part of the Legend By the time the question “What happened to Marty Robbins?” began circulating among country audiences in the…
A MAN WHO WALKS OUT THE DOOR ONLY TO DISCOVER HIS HEART NEVER LEFT When Begging to You arrived in late 1963, it became the tenth No. 1 country hit…
When Two Country Troubadours Shared a Stage, the Silence Between the Notes Told the Real Story There are performances that survive because they were technically flawless, and then there are…
Three Voices From Country Music’s Golden Age Turning Television Into a Living Front Porch When Jack Greene, Jeannie Seely, and Marty Robbins appeared together on The Marty Robbins Show, the…
A Whispered Desire Became One of Conway Twitty’s Most Effortless Late-Career Triumphs When Conway Twitty released “Slow Hand” in 1982 for the album Dream Maker, the song did more than…
A clean-cut pop phenomenon suddenly turned up the amplifiers and revealed the restless pulse beneath the smile. When The Osmonds released “Hold Her Tight” in the summer of 1972, the…
A Riot Disguised as Glamour, Where Chaos Became One of Rock’s Most Electrifying Anthems When Sweet unleashed “The Ballroom Blitz” in 1973, the song exploded far beyond the boundaries of…
A SONG ABOUT DESIRE BECAME A MEETING OF TWO LONELY GIANTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC When Roy Orbison stepped onto the stage of The Johnny Cash Show in 1969 to perform…
WHEN A QUIET TEXAS VOICE FOUND A SECOND HOME IN AFRICA By 1997, Don Williams was no longer chasing the machinery of Nashville fame. The chart wars had already been…