Henry Mancini won 20 Grammy awards and all sorts of other awards, mostly for film scores. He also released a pair of albums in the 70s covering country hits. “All His Children” from the movie “Sometimes A Great Nation” is a collaboration with Charley Pride, and it was nominated for an Academy Award, but lost to the “Theme From Shaft.”
Since I mentioned Charley Pride, here’s a great Charley Pride quote: “What we don’t need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn’t.”
In other news, Dr. Jesse Wells, who is now in Tyler Childers’ band, posted an audio clip yesterday from 1999, when Wells was in a band with Chris Stapleton, JT Cure (who is still Chris Stapleton’s bass player all these years later), and BJ Swank: The Woodpickers cover Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice
A video was uploaded to YouTube this week of Lauren Alaina singing “How Great Is Our God” at a church in 2014: Tylis Green upload. I guess it’s because I watched the weekly Opry shows on YouTube and saw Lauren Alaina on there a week or so ago that this video came up as a suggested listen. Speaking of church music, Carrie Underwood announced that her next project will be a gospel album.
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