Team Music Is Love helps feed the hungry
who need it.
Over 1,000 people attended the mobile food pantry hosted by Martina Mcbride where families in need received a week’s worth of groceries. The petite singer personally greeted each family and children in attendance, who also received free summer reading books compliments of The Word Wagon.
A Feed America study reports that one in six adults in Tennessee suffers from food insecurity and one in four children in metro Nashville goes to bed hungry at night. The same situation also goes on in many countries.
Through Team Music Is Love, Mcbride partners with non-profit causes to help many of the communities she’s performing in and invites fans to join her team in making the world a better place through the power of music.
During CMA Fest in Nashville, Mcbride’s fans joined her from 25 states and three countries to unload food trucks and bag food to give away to families in need. This is one of the events where country music works for the cause. This happens everywhere — even on the local scene. Dolly Parton talks about faith to a
trade magazine Country star and savvy business woman Dolly Parton opens up for a warm and heartfelt interview in the new issue of Simple Grace, the first inspirational and devotional monthly magazine.
She shared how her amazing relationship with God helped her through the most difficult times in her life.
“God is my best buddy,” Parton told Simple Grace with her signature joyfilled laughter. “I grew up in a faithbased family. I’ve always loved Him. I’m 71 now and every day I thank God for letting me see another day.”
Parton owes her strong faith to her mother, Avie Lee, who taught her the value of prayers and gratefulness. Dolly recalls: “Mama would say to trust God and pray when you didn’t know what to do.”
Parton grew up in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee; she was the fourth of 12 children in a very united Christian family (which inspired the hit television movies “Coat of Many Colors” in 2015 and “Christmas of Many Colors” in 2016).
Although her parents were able to instil the petite blonde and her siblings with faith, and love, they were extremely poor and couldn’t always protect the family from hardship and pain.
When Parton was 9, she went through one of the most painful times in her life when her baby brother, Larry, died when he was just four days old.
“Losing my baby brother was my first encounter with death and the deepest hurt I’ve ever known,” she told Simple Grace. “It was my first true feeling of loss and of questioning God. I remember asking, God, why are you doing this?”
She realized since, it takes a lifetime to understand that pain and loss are a part of life, a part of growing up. “It’s a hard lesson because we love our families and our babies and our pets, and you can’t lose anything that you love with all your being and it not break your heart,” she said.
“Bad things happen, loss happens, but I don’t think God causes them to happen. I think He’s there to comfort us and help us through it.” Parton has found that praying in times of suffering and keeping in mind that everything happens for a reason helps us become fearless to love and frees us to love more deeply.
“You never know how God works,” she told Simple Grace. “You just have to have faith and know that it’s going to be alright.” Lee Roy Parnell will release new
album in August It has been 11 years since his last project, now Lee Roy Parnell is back with a new collection of songs that will be released in August titled Midnight Believer. That last album shows the Texas Heritage Songwriter’s Hall of Fame member, pushing the envelope past the traditional country genre, touching on blues as well as southern roots.
Since 1990, he has recorded eight studio albums, and has charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. His highest-charting hits are “What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am” (1992), “Tender Moment” (1993), and “A Little Bit of You” (1995), all of which peaked at No. 2.
Four more of his singles have charted in the Top 10 as well. Parnell made a shift in the early 2000s back to the more bluesy sounds of his early work, releasing two blues albums on Vanguard Records and Universal South.
The last two years, Parnell has toured heavily as part of Guitar Army, a diverse combination of music and styles. The band is comprised of three world-class musicians: Robben Ford, Parnell, and Joe Robinson.
Have a great weekend and keep your Country state of mind!