This week we welcome, country music recording star, T. Graham Brown!

It was one of the most vibrant and exciting time periods in Country Music history – the mid-1980s. A new and exciting crop of talents were springing up all over the place – and T. Graham Brown remembers it like it was yesterday. “I remember Randy Travis and I hit at about the same time,” he recalls. “Our first singles were so close to each other. I’m not sure if it was the same week or not.

Brown’s initial entry to Country Radio was the sad and soulful “Drowning In Memories.” That Top-40 single helped him to establish himself, and by the winter of 1986, he had warmed up to audiences with the bluesy hit “I Tell It Like It Used To Be.” Other hits quickly followed, with his first self-penned release “Hell And High Water,” which became his first number one song. “I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again” and “Don’t Go To Strangers” were the next releases, which all became chart-toppers.

The soulful vocal stylings of T. Graham Brown were all over the airwaves, as his sophomore
release Brilliant Conversationalist added more titles to his arsenal of hits, such as the seductive “The Last Resort,” and “She Couldn’t Love Me Anymore.” It was a time period that Brown sums up as something of a blur. “Doing shows, visiting radio stations and promoting our records, kept me out on the road over 300 days a year and that was a lot of traveling! This was when I was on tour with Kenny Rogers, who was the biggest thing going back then. His audiences continued to make him a radio favorite as he continued to amass more hits like “Darlene,” the smash duet “Don’t Go Out” with Tanya Tucker, and the regret- filled “If You Could Only See Me Now.”

At the same time his singles were climbing the charts, T.’s powerful voice could also be heard on radio and television. His sense of style provided the platform for a successful series of cameos in commercials for international brands such as Coca-Cola, Harrah’s Casino, Burger King, and Taco Bell. As the 80s progressed into the next decade, Brown continued to flex his artistic muscle. A well-received concert album enabled him a chance to pay homage to his early influences, like the incomparable Otis Redding, and his hero George Jones, who he teamed up with on several projects, including the CMA Award-winning Vocal Event of the

Year release, “I Don’t Need Your Rockin’ Chair.”

It was a gripping 1998 release about his battles with alcohol – “Wine Into Water”- which helped him introduce his music to the Christian audiences. In recent years, his first-ever Gospel album, Forever Changed, netted him a Grammy nomination, with the promise of more such music on the way.

Now entering his fifth decade as an entertainer, T. Graham Brown’s career continues to sail along at a pace that seems to suit him well these days. “I’m having more fun out there now than I ever have had. I’m not out there chasing the hits. I’m just trying to stay out there. We’re planning on doing another Gospel record later this year. And, for T. Graham Brown, it’s all about a career that he enjoys. He’ll tell you with a grin, “I’ve got a band and a bus, and I’ll keep taking the music to the people as long as God lets me. It’s what I love to do!”

For more information visit his website: TGrahamBrown.com. For tickets to his appearance with Rhonda Vincent’s “Christmas In Branson” show, call 615-390-5423, or visit: RhondaVincent.com

This week we welcome Grammy award-winning country star, John Berry!

GRAMMY Award-winning country star John Berry celebrates 42 years as a Country music performer. In 2020 Grammy award-winning country star, John Berry took advantage of being off the road. Highlights include partnering with Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt for his weekly series, "Songs and Stories For Kids," which charted multiple times on the Pollstar Live Stream Chart. He released a new video and re-recorded a new single for "The Graduation Song," started his new podcast, Faith Family & Friends and is ending the year with his 24th annual Songs and Stories with John Berry Christmas. In 2019 John Berry celebrated the 28th anniversary since signing his first record deal with his most recent single “The Richest Man” from the new album Thomas Road. In 2019, Berry was diagnosed with throat cancer, requiring 35 treatments combined of radiation and chemotherapy. In 2018 charted at #30 on the Music Row Breakout Charts with the single, “Beautifully Broken,” which is featured in the soundtrack for the movie of the same name. The singer-songwriter rose to stardom on the country charts of the 1990s with such mega hits as Your Love Amazes Me, Standing on the Edge of Goodbye and She’s Taken a Shine. His annual Christmas tours brighten the holidays for thousands, as does his electrifying rendition of O’ Holy Night.

During the 90’s and early 2000’s, John placed 20 singles on the country charts, 6 of which went Top 5, with Your Love Amazes Me, scoring a #1 on the Billboard and Radio & Records Country Chart as well as Standing on the Edge of Goodbye and She’s Taken a Shine earning the #1 slot in Radio & Records. He has earned multiple Gold and Platinum records over the years. John was nominated for the ACM Top New Male Vocalist in 1994, won a Grammy Award in 1996 for his participation in Amazing Grace: A Country Salute to Gospel Vol. 1, was nominated for another Grammy in 1995 for his smash hit Your Love Amazes Me and was nominated for the CMA Horizon Award and Top Male Vocalist Award in 1995. In 1997 he was nominated for Vocal Event of the Year (for Long Haired Country Boy with Charlie Daniels and Hal Ketchum) and in 2013 John was nominated for the Mainstream Country Male Artist by the ICM Awards. And thanks to the miracles of modern technology, he even sang a duet with the late, great Patsy Cline.

“I love what I do, with a passion not seen in quite some time. I’m hopeful and excited about the future. I love singing and always will. I have a bus, an incredible stage presentation, a great band, hands-on management team and I’m always all dressed up and ready to go.”

John’s enduringly powerful performances draw on a lifetime of making music and living life. Born in South Carolina and raised in Georgia, he began playing guitar at 13, performing shows at age 14 and making records at age 19. “By the time I was 17, I knew that music was what I wanted to do with my life”; and he has done it well ever since.

Between 1979 and 1990 he recorded and marketed six albums on his own labels. The Graduation Song, which he wrote during his senior year in high school, became a perennial favorite at graduation ceremonies. It appeared on two of his early collections. Those early discs and John’s strong regional popularity attracted attention on Music Row. Capitol Records signed him to his first major label contract in 1992. Berry’s co-written hits A Mind of Her Own and Kiss Me in the Car introduced him to radio audiences in 1993. Then Your Love Amazes Me, What’s in it for Me and You and Only You thrust him to stardom in 1994. Standing on the Edge of Goodbye, I Think About it all the Time, and If I Had Any Pride Left at All were all major hits the following year, with Standing on the Edge of Goodbye

This week we welcome, star of The Grand Ole Opry, Jeannie Seely!

On the night of September 16, 1967, Jeannie Seely marked an important milestone in her music career by joining the world-famous Grand Ole Opry. The distinctive-voiced lady referred to as “Miss Country Soul” became the first Pennsylvania native to become an Opry member.

Today Jeannie makes clear that it's still a thrill and an honor each time she performs on the Opry stage. "I feel very fortunate to be part of the Opry tradition," the Grammy-winning singer says, "and I truly am indebted to all the wonderful fans who have supported me over the years.”

Jeannie Seely is among a select group of country artists who have scored chart- topping hits as a solo artist, as a duet partner, and as a songwriter.

Born on July 6, 1940, in Titusville, Pennsylvania – the town where the world’s very first oil well was drilled in 1859 – Jeannie grew up as the youngest of Leo and Irene Seely's four children. The family's two-story farmhouse still stands along a dirt road outside of nearby Townville, a community of about 300 folks located in the northwestern corner of the Keystone State.

Jeannie's interest in music was influenced strongly by her parents. Leo Seely worked hard on the family's farm and at a Titusville steel mill, but found time on weekends to play the banjo and call local square dances. Irene Seely would sing with her daughter every Saturday morning while the two baked bread together.

“I grew up in a time when all the neighbors gathered together to help each other get the hay in and that kind of thing,” recalls Jeannie. “It seemed like everybody back in the country played guitars and fiddles, and when we got together there was always pickin’ and singin’.”

When she was barely tall enough to reach the dial on her family's big Philco console radio, Jeannie was tuning in the Grand Ole Opry on station WSM 650.

At age 11, she began singing for a Saturday morning radio show on Meadville station WMGW. "I can still remember standing on a stack of wooden soda cases because I wasn't tall enough to reach the unadjustable microphones," she laughs. By age 16, Jeannie was performing on television station WICU in Erie.

Jeannie recalls many Saturday nights as a teenager when she would sit in her family's car, eat popcorn and listen to the Grand Ole Opry while her parents played cards at the homes of friends.

"I also remember looking forward to attending country music shows at a place near Franklin called Hillbilly Park," says Jeannie. “They would do an afternoon and an evening

show. Mother would bake a chicken and fix up a picnic basket, and we’d just go there and spend the whole day and the evening. I was always on the ground right in front of the front row, looking up at the stage.”

At Hillbilly Park Jeannie had the opportunity to see performers like Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley, as well as Josh Graves who would later play on her Life’s Highway CD.

"I still have the 8 by 10 photos I bought and had autographed there by stars like Jean Shepard, Little Jimmy Dickens, and Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper," she proudly notes. “I’ve been very blessed to later become friends with these Opry legends.”

A cheerleader, majorette, and honor student while attending Townville High School, Jeannie sang at local amateur contests and began performing at weekend dances throughout northwestern Pennsylvania.

"Back then a lot of people made fun of me because I sang country," she admits today. "In those days calling somebody 'country' was actually a put-down." Jeannie remembers how the residents of tiny Townville didn't believe that anyone, especially a female, could make a living by singing or writing songs. "Some people didn't even think it was right for a girl to be singing with a band at

This week we welcome Doug Gabriel!

Doug Gabriel's #1 Hits Tribute Show is everything the name implies and so much more!

One of Branson's longest running and most successful entertainers, Doug Gabriel gives you everything he's got on songs that everyone knows and loves! Hits from today's artists, yesterday's hit-makers.

Doug started singing at the age of two, and began using his God-given talent professionally at the age of twelve. Several years later he began touring and opening for many other stars like Marie Osmond, Roy Clark, Tony Orlando, Tanya Tucker, Bobby Vinton, Mel Tillis, The Gatlins, Moe Bandy, Ronnie McDowell This is an example of a man who never lost sight of making his professional dreams come true. Doug’s talent, consistency, and his persistence made a diamond in the rough, a shining star.

As a long-time favorite in Branson, it wasn’t a stretch that in 1994 his own show was created, “The Branson Morning Show, starring Doug Gabriel.” His talent has made him Branson’s Most Awarded Performer, and soon he began performing at night to the same ovations he got during the day. He remains very passionate about music and entertaining Branson audiences but, more than anything, he's passionate about family. Plus, Doug plays his World Famous Mufftar, a guitar made out of a 1969 Thunderbird muffler!

He, and his family, are the 8th longest running act in the Branson area. This is due to his seemingly effortless talent, the quality of his show, and the altering of his show each year to keep things fresh. His talent and personal appeal will keep you coming back every time you are in Branson.

Doug has a brand new location for his 2020 show, The Branson Famous Theatre! For more information, or to order tickets call the Branson Famous Box Office: 417-231-4999 or
visit DougGabriel.com.

This week we welcome Bob Davidson and Jason D. Williams!

Bob Davidson, After following in his father's footsteps and playing alongside him in a band, Bob worked in Kimberling City with Jim Weatherly's Ozark Jamboree at the age of 9. Bob never played many sports and instead chose to follow the musical path. After graduating high school, Bob went to work for Lee Mace at Lee Mace's Ozark Opry in Osage Beach, and then became part of the Ozark Country Jubilee, which came to Branson in 1979.

Bob decided to head out and play the road venues after six years in Branson, eventually relocating to Nashville. He did solo gigs and some carpentry work to “pay the bills.” A few years back, Bob got that rambling fever and decided to give Branson one more shot in 2009.

Bob returned to Branson in 2010 with a show titled Swingin’ Doors Country Music Show at the Clay Cooper Theatre. In 2011 he joined Down Home Country at Grand Country and performed there for five years.

In June 2017, Bob rededicated his life to Christ. “God laid upon my heart to write songs of love, hope, and faith because the ‘Old was gone and the new had come’ (2 Corinthians 5:17),” Bob said. “It all began when I laid it all at the foot of the cross. You see, after many years of playing the honky-tonks and writing Country music, I had found that missing piece of the puzzle. Yes, my Lord and Savior said, ‘Pick up your cross and follow Me,’” Bob stated.

Bob continued, “By God’s grace and 10 songs later, hours upon hours in the studio and many sleepless nights writing an entirely new project, God revealed to me His plan for my life: to share the Gospel through a brand new music ministry, which the guys in the studio refer to as ‘Bob Style Gospel’. There’s really no other way to describe it.”

With a new album and renewed faith Bob has a new sound and music ministry. To book a performance or get his new album, visit: MusicByBobDavidson.com. You can also follow Bob Davidson Music Ministries on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and SoundCloud.

Jason D. Williams has spent a lifetime behind the piano connecting with country and rock 'n' roll greats while creating a persona that's 100 percent original. After decades of being celebrated for his take-no-prisoners approach to performing country and rock 'n' roll penned by others, Williams has added a new element to his artistry, songwriting. The rock 'n' roll history of Memphis looms large in Williams' world. He recorded for RCA and Sun Records in the 1980s and '90s, and returned to the recording fold in 2010 and has continued steady since.

At the age of 16, Williams left his tiny hometown of El Dorado, Ark., to perform
with LaBeef who had set up a base of operations in northeast Massachusetts.
Williams, who continues to work with LaBeef on occasion, went solo in the late 1980s and found a steady home at Mallards in the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN when a snowstorm stranded him a few steps from the Peabody door, quickly he attracted a following and the rest, as they say, is history.

After several years, he left after signing with RCA, which released his first album, "Tore Up," and he stayed on the road after Sun Records issued "Wild" in 1993. "Don’t Get None Onya’," released in 2004, captured the power of his blend of honky-tonk country and Memphis rock 'n' roll and was the birth of his own label. “Rockin”, “Killer Instincts” and “Recycled” soon followed and the latest album is in progress now.

Williams is also no stranger to large motion pictures, movies as we call them. Williams performed all of the hand shots for the movie “Great Balls of Fire” starring a young Dennis Quaid and was also featured in “The War Room” documenting Bill Clinton’s race for the Wh

This week we welcome ,from Bluegrass Remedy and The Clay Cooper Country Express, Kari Garrison!

Kari Garrison was born and raised in Denison, Texas, in a musical family where harmony-filled living room jam sessions with her dad and other family members were a part of her daily life. It was there Kari developed her love and passion for singing.

After high school, Kari moved to Virginia and over the next 5 years she shared the stage, as well as the recording studio, with many of the industry's most promising bluegrass artists. Then in 2001, following a dare from her younger sister, Kari moved to the Branson.

After performing in several shows in town, Kari took a job at "The Paul Harris Show". She went on to sing with the legendary entertainer Moe Bandy for eight consecutive years. While performing and traveling with Moe, Kari was honored to sing with him on the world famous stage of the Grand Ole Opry.

It was in 2015, Kari joined the cast of "Clay Cooper's Country Express" where she is the featured female vocalist. Kari was also awarded Branson Female Vocalist of the Year for 2017!

You can check the Clay Cooper schedule or get more information by calling Clay's Box Office: 417-337-7123, or visit ClayCooper.com.

For information on Bluegrass Remedy: Call Choices Concert Hall 417-337-7123.

This week we welcome Travis Scott Clevenger!

Some say Travis Scott was singing before he could even talk! It was at age 16 he got on the stage for the first time and from then on Scott was hooked on singing. He was born and raised in Aurora Missouri. Classic Country Greats such as Merle Haggard, George Jones, Porter Wagner and Ronnie Milsap provided the sound track to his child hood. “I can trace my love of music back to my childhood. As far back as I can remember, my family was musical. It was just there.”

Travis’s Uncle Harold Jenkins played a great part in Travis’s development in a performer. “I listened to him from the time I was 5 years old” Travis took the stage for the first time at 16 with his cousin Jeff Jenkins. He then continued his music career performing with the Spring Creek Boys for three years.

Throughout his 35 years of entertaining, he has toured in over 30 states, and has worked with some of country music's biggest stars. He thrives on singing different genres of music, but traditional country is where his heart is. Keeping the "good ole stuff" alive is what he loves to do and will always do.

You can now see hear him with his band Travis Scott and the Playboyz. For more information visit his Facebook page: TravisScottAndThePlayboyz.

This week we welcome, from The Shepherd of the Hills Chuckwagon Show, The Riders of the Circle B!

Back by popular demand, the Shepherd of the Hills is reuniting the Riders of the Circle B for its 2020 Chuckwagon Dinner
Show! Sheriff Kemp Horn, his daughter Christiana Cordova, and his son Michael Horn are coming out of cowboy

retirement. They’re joined by accomplished mandolinist Samuel Clanton and one of Branson’s most talented fiddlers, JR Marriott.

Together, the Riders will entertain your whole crew with tight vocal harmonies, fun songs, tall tales and poems in honor of the great American cowboy. Treat your family to fresh takes on cowboy music and old-fashioned, family-friendly cowboy comedy. The dinner bell rings at 5PM sharp!

For more information, call Shepherd of the Hills: 417-334-4191 or visit their website:: TheShepherdOfTheHills.com

This week we welcome gospel greats, The Blackwoods, along with the comedy legend, Yakov Smirnoff!

"The Blackwoods" bring the Blackwood family's gospel music tradition to the Branson stage! The son of gospel music royalty, R.W. Blackwood, and his talented wife, Donna, carry on the family tradition of uplifting, inspirational, and just plain good gospel music!

After spending 15 years entertaining packed venues in Pigeon Forge, the Blackwood family had made their home in Branson. They'll be performing the music made famous by the Blackwood Brothers Quartet, and sharing heartwarming stories from the family's history in music.

They also include songs in honor of some of the greatest performers in the world, the very performers they've had the privilege to work with. A solid tribute to honor our Veterans in this great country serves to wrap up this one of a kind of performance. Relive the excitement of the Blackwood Singers performing with Elvis Presley, Charlie Daniels, the Oak Ridge Boys, the Gatlin Brothers, Johnny Cash, Statler Brothers, Barbara Mandrell, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Ronnie Milsap, and the list goes on!

The Blackwood Brothers Quartet was blessed with scores of Dove Awards and multiple Grammy's, and all that incredible talent runs in the family! So, if legendary gospel music touches something inside you, then make plans now to be in Branson for "The Blackwoods!" Blackwood FEVER... Catch it!

For more information, call the Americana Box Office: 417-544-8700 or visit their Facebook page: The Blackwoods.

Yakov Smirnoff will Make America Laugh Again when he returns to the Branson stage in 2020! His hilarious take on all things American, and his humorously heartfelt observations on life and love, and the joys of navigating the ups and downs of both, have kept Yakov on our comic radar for years.

We first fell in love with this charming Russian immigrant back in the 70s and 80s when he dominated television talk shows with his stand up comedy, and then stole the movie spotlight from huge artists like Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, and the late and much loved Richard Pryor and Robin Williams. His movie roles include Brewster’s Millions, Moscow on the Hudson, The Money Pit, and Heartburn -- on television, he had a recurring role on Night Court.

His goal to become the ultimate U.S. citizen didn’t stop with his pledge, Yakov went on to get an impressive formal education, including a degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, and his doctorate degree in Psychology and Global Leadership from Pepperdine University.

He’s made good use of that education teaching courses in Happiness and Laughter, and combining it with his natural wisdom and wit, and an uncanny knack for noticing all the little nuances of human behavior, to keep audiences in stitches around the world!

For more information, call the Yakov Theatre Box Office: 417-336-3838 or visit his website: Yakov.com

This week we welcome, from Mel’s Hard Luck Diner, Kelly Bryant!

Kelly is originally from Ft. Worth, TX. She started performing at the Grapevine Opry at the age of 4. She came to Branson in '82 to perform at Chesai Childs' Starlight theater. In '85 she joined a kids group called the Texas Goldminors. The Goldminors had a matinee for 11 years. 8 of those years were at the 76 Music Hall/ now Grand Country Theater.

She was also on the Bob Nichols morning show, backup singer for Johnny Lee, and had her own band in town for several years.

You can find her now at Mel's Hard Luck diner, (home of the singing servers) where she has been for 12 years. And she also sings at Jackie B. Goode's Uptown Cafe on Monday afternoons.

She's been married to her husband Jeff for 19 years and they have been blessed with 2 beautiful children.

Mel's Hard Luck Diner, is the home of Branson's Original Singing Servers. Talented, professional singing servers entertain you while you enjoy some great food and their famous desserts. The 1950's era diner is the perfect setting for you to stop by, sit back and enjoy great food while having your favorite songs performed live and up close...

For more information call Mel's Hard Luck Diner at: 417-335-2484 or visit Mel'sHardLuckDiner.com.