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DOUG DAVIS | Sometimes, things just fall into place
This week in 1983: According to a nationwide poll, most Americans did not know who the United States supported in Central America; The National Women s Caucus asked President Ronald Reagan to forego re-election; Vice President Bush was booed during a NAACP meeting in Louisiana; and a singer from Paintsville, Kentucky, had her 30th hit record.
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This week in 1983: According to a nationwide poll, most Americans did not know who the United States supported in Central America; The National Women s Caucus asked President Ronald Reagan to forego re-election; Vice President Bush was booed during a NAACP meeting in Louisiana; and a singer from Paintsville, Kentucky, had her 30th hit record.
The CMA has announced that it will allow Morgan Wallen, who is under a cloud because of his videotaped use of the N-word in January, to compete in categories in which there are other collaborators on the project, such as album of the year, but not in individual categories, such as male vocalist of the year.
It will be interesting to see if CMA voters nominate Wallen’s
Dangerous: The Double Album for album of the year. The blockbuster is in its 22nd week at No. 1 on
Billboard s Top Country Albums chart. Long-running No. 1 albums are usually nominated in this category. Of the 27 previous albums that have topped the country chart for 20 or more weeks, 20 have been nominated in this category. The most recent album to hit that mark before Wallen’s album, Luke Combs’
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Ty Herndon publicly came out in 2014, but his story begins in Decatur, Ala., nearly 40 years earlier. There, he found his singing voice in the pentecostal church.
“I was singing at tent revivals when I was five years old,” Herndon recalls. “From the time I was five until the time I was 15, I was singing with the Song Masters Gospel Quartet. Mom and Dad were carting me to every tent revival around, and when I turned 15, I definitely knew that I was fighting something at the time that I thought might have been a disease.”
It was an environment and a time even further from acceptance than today. Things became so extreme within the church, Herndon admits, that he felt danger in someone amongst the congregation finding out and forcing him into a conversion therapy camp.
Retired caterer recalls cooking for music legends
By FOX 13 News Staff
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - For decades, Midge Trubey had an all-access pass as a caterer working for music legends. Ray Charles was probably one of the biggest thrills to me because I grew up playing piano, she offered. Crystal Gayle has been one of my dearest friends for years and years and years.
Her catering business grew out of necessity in the 1970 s. She wanted to provide hospitality to the big acts when they came to the Tampa Bay area. I started thinking, if you re such a high-profile person that you can t even go out to dinner, what do you do? said Trubey. I couldn t believe my first contract was with the Isley Brothers. I about fell over. I had my first national contract in two years; I was out on the road with Journey. It went crazy right at the very beginning and I just never looked back it just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.