In the last chapter of his life, Kenny Rogers traded tour buses and sold-out arenas for school runs, family routines, and the home life he had...
A casual hello in a Nashville studio in 1977 turned into an impromptu duet with Kenny Rogers—and gave Dottie West the career revival, creative partner, and...
With Love, Prison, Wisdom and Heartaches, Connie Smith and Marty Stuart deepen one of country music’s most devoted creative partnerships, proving that tradition can still sound...
In the final hours before Dottie West’s death after a devastating car crash, Kenny Rogers stood at her bedside and made one more promise to the...
What began as a warm late-2020 recording session for “You Are My Christmas” became, after Randy Parton’s death in early 2021, an unexpectedly moving final document...
After a lifetime of tours, hit records and arena applause, Kenny Rogers spent his last years in Georgia focused not on one more comeback, but on...
When Marty Stuart produced Connie Smith in 1998, the sessions became more than a comeback record: they captured a marriage, a shared faith in country music...
Connie Smith’s 1998 self-titled Warner Bros. album was more than a comeback record: it was a loving, musically exact collaboration in which Marty Stuart used reverence,...
Marty Stuart’s 1983 marriage to Cindy Cash briefly bound a rising young guitarist to the most famous family in country music, but the pressures of youth,...
For an artist who had spent years chasing the glow of performance, Marty Stuart’s marriage to Connie Smith marked a quieter, deeper turning point: the discovery...