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Pioneering country music singer Charley Pride (1934-2020) dies of COVID-19 Country music singer Charley Pride died from the COVID-19 virus on December 12 in Dallas at age 86. He was the first African American artist to achieve major success in country music, signing with the RCA Victor label in 1966. He produced at least 30 chart-topping country songs through the late 1980s and sold over 70 million records worldwide. Pride is best known for songs of love and heartache, including “Kiss an Ange...

Home for Christmas With Christmas coming up on Friday this week, I hesitated to post these videos in a Sunday Morning Coming Down post yesterday so far in advance of the holiday. On second thought, the time has come today. I want to revisit a few of the secular pop songs that seize on Christmas in one way or another for their own artistic purposes. I’ve added one new selection to last year’s lineup. Here they are in chronological order of release along with my notes on them. In the video b...

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jmancini@newsandsentinel.com Buck and Company, a local bluegrass and gospel group, has released a Christmas CD, “My Christmas Dream.” From left, members of the band are Dwayne McCumbers, Connie Hardman, Jerry Hardway, Buck McCumbers and Randy Brady. (Photo Provided) “My Christmas Dream,” a CD by the local bluegrass band Buck and Company is available at local stores and online. Most of the songs were written by Buck McCumbers of Rockport. (Photo Provided) Buck and Company, a loca...

Christmas music is a nostalgia trip. Generally speaking, pop music prizes novelty — fresh songs, surprising sounds, this week’s hit, the Next Big Thing. But once a year, a soundtrack that reaches back decades and centuries chimes into earshot once more. Of course, nostalgia is built into the holiday season, when our secular religion of capitalist consumption gets stirred together with Christian traditions, ancient pagan rites and a vague longing for the old-fashioned comforts of home, hear...