Dottie Rambo Killed in Bus Accident

[timlan2057]

How very sad.

Now, I was never a super big Rambo fan even when I was a youngster.

But "The Singing Rambos" were such a part of our lives at JCM back in the days when southern gospel was king.

I've come to appreciate her music more now that I'm older.

Many of her songs were more "country gospel", but her soul and heart shone through what she wrote and sang, her Kentucky roots like Loretta Lynn's, or the east Texas piney woods that gave birth to such a great artist as George Jones or the north Alabama roots of Howard and Vestal Goodman.

Dottie, like the others, sang from the heart and captured in their music the true spirit of America, the Kentucky coal miner, the truck driver - the heart, soul, joy and pain of every day living and the hope of something better in the world to come.

The song of hers I'm thinking of right now is one that I'd normally think "corny" but it doesn't seem so corny right now - "Mama's Teaching Angels How To Sing" ...