This year marks Hank Williams’ 100th birthday. I was seven years old when he died at the age of 29 on New Year’s Eve, 1953. I have liked Hank Williams’ music for most of my life, and have a hard time passing up any of it. I buy his records. I buy his discs. If the music industry repackages his songs, even if I have them, I usually buy those, too. Live performance tapes and performances on radio transcriptions have been discovered over the years. I buy those, too. The most amazing discovery occurred when a person was cleaning the WSM radio recording studio in Nashville. A staff photographer happened to walk by a cart full of transcription discs on its way to the dumpster and noticed a huge pile of Hank Williams transcriptions. He retrieved those, and after legal wrangling they were finally released to the public in 2010, doubling overnight the amount of Hank Williams music available. The transcriptions were made to promote Mother’s Best Flower on a 15-minute …
Post 20 – Is Christianity True?
Is there anything more bizarre than a claim that someone rose from the dead? Jesus reportedly performed miracles, such as instant healings. However, Christianity ultimately hinges on whether Jesus rose from the dead after being crucified by the Romans. It is no wonder that many people have a hard time believing the New Testament’s message that the resurrection occurred. However, many do believe it, which raises the question, "Is the resurrection message in the New Testament reliable history?" Historians have developed tools to determine accuracy of accounts in ancient documents. Here are a few Multiple sources of the accounts add to validity. In the Bible, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, James, and the writer of the book Hebrews, cite or allude to the resurrection. The differences in these accounts indicate they are not from one source. In 1 Corinthians 15:3-8, Paul names Cephas and the apostles as eyewitnesses to the resurrected Jesus, but also …
POST 19 – Ancestors and a Powder Horn
I have been blessed to know those who came before. Well, not all of them. A “Fry relative” traced our family back to “Big John” Fry, who lived in Virginia in the 1700s. Given my low-slung height, I was happy we had a tall Fry in the family, but then it occurred to be that Big John might just have been short and fat. The 1700s means the Frys were here during the American Revolution. Were they fighting against the British “homeland,” were they British sympathizers, or did they just hide in a cave until the battles were over? Who knows? One thing for sure, some of them were busy having babies. Fast forward to the 1800s, and Absalom Fry, who lived in Kentucky, made a powder horn and evidently enjoyed carving on it. Absalom was killed in a horse race in 1850 when he fell off the horse (or did the horse fall?) and sustained fatal head injuries with the help of a tree stump (not quite like dying fighting at the Alamo). Shortly before my father died he gave me this …
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A Few Live Original and Cover Songs
A Few Live Original and Cover Songs – Many More On YOUTUBE Dr. Fry’s Texas Medicine Band Only Car In Your Garage Black Magic Woman | Oye Como Va Angel of the Morning Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door Sooner or Later The Rose …
Live at Wunsche Brothers Café and Saloon
Live at Wunsche Brothers Café and Saloon April 20, 1991 Spring, TX Dr. Fry's Texas Medicine Band Live Performance at Wunsche Bros. Cafe and Saloon, Spring, Texas, April 20, 1991 Performances of: Texas Medicine Mr. Heavy Them Rabbits Go Dancin' …
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Jamboree by The Lake
Jamboree by The Lake May 6, 2006 Winchester, TN Clifford Fry and Max Fry Live at the Jamboree by the Lake - YouTube Performances of: To Love You Right Only Car In Your Garage Fat Farm The Reason Every Little Part of the World …