With a distinctive drawl and commanding vocals, Ms. Montgomery made her name in Nashville as a singer and songwriter of ...

Melba Montgomery, a country singer and songwriter ... Her father was a farmer, and her mother tended to the home and her seven children. Melba's father gave fiddle and singing classes at a ...

Melba Joyce Montgomery was born on Oct. 14, 1938, in Iron City, Tenn., one of nine children of Norman and Willie Annie Mae (Cypert) Montgomery. Her father was a sharecropper — and later ...

Melba Montgomery — who scored a number of country ... Those who wish may contribute to Alive Hospice, Shriners Hospital for Children or the Dementia Society of America in lieu of flowers.

The music world and its fans saw plenty of heartbreak and tragedy in January with at least 20 notable musicians having lost ...

White, along with his daughters Sharon and Cheryl, formed the Grammy Award-winning trio The Whites. Per Taste of Country, the group had several top 10 and Top 20 singles in the 1980s. The Whites were ...

January’s music losses include Marianne Faithfull, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, Sam Moore of Sam & Dave, Wayne Osmond ...

But we're also doing events and activities thinking about how those activities that Dr. King did, like for example the Montgomery bus ... are our generations, our children's, and even children's ...

Melba Montgomery, a country singer and songwriter whose Southern inflections and high harmonies brought a distinctive flourish alongside duet partners such as George Jones in ballads about ...