Monthly Archives: November 2008

Mack Vickery Live at the Alabama Women’s Prison

I tell you what. We’ve played for bigger audiences, but we’ve never played for any greater audience, I guarantee it.  – Mack Vickery, Live! At the Alabama Women’s Prison Johnny Cash started it with Folsom Prison. Playing prisons had been … Continue reading

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W.C. Rice’s Miracle Cross Garden

In a world full of sinners, hypocrites, whoremongers, and thieves, William Carlton (W.C.) Rice saw himself as a modern-day Noah: ordained by God to prophesy destruction, to call the unsaved and endangered to salvation, and to build with his own … Continue reading

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Help Me Understand: Hank Williams as Luke the Drifter

  Roy Orbison had a line in a song called “My Best Friend.” It was a line that says, “A diamond is a diamond and a stone is a stone. But man is part good and part bad.” You know, … Continue reading

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