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Classic Country News Archives for 2021-03

Dolly Parton MusiCares Tribute Concert Coming to Netflix

We can never get enough of Dolly!


The new trailer is here for "Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute,"  set to premiere April 7 on Netflix.
In 2019, Parton was the first country artist to be honored as MusiCares "Person of the Year" at the Recording Academy's annual fundraising gala and tribute concert.


Taped just before the Grammy Awards in February 2019, the concert features artists like Katy Perry, Leon Bridges, and Miley Cyrus paying musical tribute to the country legend!


Chris Stapleton, Shawn Mendes, Yolanda Adams, and Willie Nelson are also among the performers. Little Big Town host and sing for Parton.


Great concert to check out Dolly fans on Netflix starting April 7th.

 

 

Remembering Charley Pride on his Birthday!

Born a sharecropper’s son in Sledge, Mississippi, on March 18, 1934, Charley Pride emerged from Southern cotton fields to become country music’s first Black superstar and the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.


“No person of color had ever done what he has done,” said Darius Rucker in the PBS American Masters film Charley Pride: I’m Just Me.


Pride was a gifted athlete who at first thought baseball would be his path from poverty, labor, and strife. But his musical acumen was more impressive than his pitching arm or his hitting skills, and he emerged as one of the most significant artists at RCA Records.


His chart-topping hits included “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’,” “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone,” and “Mountain of Love.” He won the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year award in 1971, its top male vocalist prize in 1971 and 1972, and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.


His final performance came on November 11, 2020, when he sang “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’” during the CMA Awards show at Nashville’s Music City Center with Jimmie Allen, who counts Pride among his heroes.


We lost Charley on December 12, 2020, in Dallas, Texas of complications from Covid-19 at age 86. This heartbreaking news came after his performance at the CMA's which same say is where he contacted COVID-19.