Singer Jimmy Fortune will perform Aug. 16 at Liberty Hall in Tyler. Singer Jimmy Fortune is returning to East Texas for an Aug. 16 performance at Liberty Hall in Tyler. Fortune, a Virginia native, ...

A hall-of-fame country and gospel musician will be performing live in Orange later this month. Jimmy Fortune, an inductee in the Gospel Music Association and Country Music Association Halls of Fame, ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Nashville-based, Americana singer/songwriter Adam Pope holds nothing back ...

Jimmy Fortune toured, sang and performed with the legendary Statler Brothers for 21 years. He joined them first as a temporary replacement for Lew DeWitt, after DeWitt heard him singing at a ski ...

It was after midnight when Jimmy Fortune and John Rimel started writing the song “More Than a Name on a Wall.” The first verse tells of a mother walking up to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in ...

Not with his eyes, but with his voice. The date was 1981, and the place was a ski resort in Virginia when Fortune found good fortune while he sang Roy Orbison’s “Crying.” Lew DeWitt of the Statler ...

Although fame, awards and accolades have been showered on Jimmy Fortune during his singing career, he hasn’t forgotten his way back home. Last spring, the Country Music Hall of Fame member performed ...

Hank Williams lived an all-too-short life of 29 years — Sept. 17, 1923 to Jan. 1, 1953. But the iconic country western singer-songwriter's music lives on around the world, and especially in Montgomery ...