Forever and Ever, Amen

legacy of country music. And

We recorded my album Storms of Life

Andy Griffith and his gospel album

No Place Like Home,” another well-written song by Paul Overstreet

Little Jimmy Dickens and I got to be friends. We talked often about music and life, and one night after he

Live at the Nashville Palace

The Wind Beneath My Wings

With this success, Warner advanced us enough money to complete my first full label album. We titled it Storms of Life after the song written by Max D.

on lead guitar, and Gary Carter on steel guitar. As soon as we could afford a fiddle player, we hired David Johnson, a classically trained violinist who had played with the house band at Country City USA in Charlotte.

I did, however, make time to sing at the Opry on March 7, 1986. Also on the show that night were Opry favorites Grandpa Jones, Connie Smith, Minnie Pearl, Riders in the Sky, and my old friend Little Jimmy Dickens.