Tag: TN

WATCH: Rory Feek, “Time Won’t Tell”

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Artist: Rory Feek
Hometown: Columbia, Tennessee
Song: “Time Won’t Tell” (written by Harlan Howard and Beth Nielsen Chapman)
Album: Gentle Man
Release Date: June 18, 2021
Label: Gaither Music Group

In Their Words: “I first heard this song in the mid-’90s when I was writing for Harlan Howard, and he and Beth wrote it. I’ve always loved it and my wife Joey and I even had it on a shortlist to record for her to sing one day. All these years later, the lyric is even more special to me. It’s been five years since Joey passed, and there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wonder what life might be like if she was still here. If it was her tucking our little girl Indiana in bed at night and not just me. What the song says is so true… sometimes, ‘time won’t tell.'” — Rory Feek

Photo credit: Michael Hayes

LISTEN: Don Bryant, “99 Pounds”

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Artist: Don Bryant
Hometown: Memphis, Tennessee
Song: “99 Pounds”
Album: You Make Me Feel
Release Date: June 19, 2020
Label: Fat Possum Records

Editor’s Note: This is the first time Don Bryant has recorded “99 Pounds,” the 1972 hit he wrote for Ann Peebles. They have been married since 1974 and still reside in Memphis. They also co-wrote (with Bernard “Bernie” Miller) her signature song, “I Can’t Stand the Rain.” Peebles retired from performing in 2012.

In Their Words: “This new version is a tribute to Ann, for accepting the song when I wrote it for her. I fell in love with Ann when she first came in to Hi [Records]. But there was so much going on with her — recording, travel, so many around her — it wasn’t my time. And I wasn’t in no hurry — I knew I wasn’t going nowhere! We got to know each other better and better and it opened up. It was a long, drawn-out situation, but for me it was love at first sight.” — Don Bryant

Photo courtesy of Fat Possum Records

LISTEN: Tommy Buller, “I Still Call It Home”

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Artist: Tommy Buller
Hometown: Omaha, Nebraska
Single: “I Still Call it Home”
Release Date: May 22, 2020
Label: RBR Entertainment

In Their Words: “‘I Still Call it Home’ is a song written by Billy Droze and Chris Myers. The first time Billy played it for me, I listened to the words and I fell in love with the song because it’s kind of the way I feel. I love being in Nashville, but I always miss being at home with Mom and Dad. I think the direction that country music has taken is really sad. Hearing the ‘bro country’ stuff that is going on in Nashville right now sometimes makes me question what the heck I’m doing there, but I know that real country and bluegrass music isn’t dead. Ya just got to look a little harder to find it these days.” — Tommy Buller

Photo credit: Barbara Potter