{"id":61455,"date":"2016-11-08T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=61455"},"modified":"2016-11-08T08:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T13:00:43","slug":"country-stars-to-honor-jean-shepard-at-tribute-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/08\/country-stars-to-honor-jean-shepard-at-tribute-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Stars to Honor Jean Shepard at Tribute Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-61457\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/jeanshepard_metatag.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"jeanshepard_metatag\" width=\"750\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jeanshepard_metatag.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jeanshepard_metatag-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jeanshepard_metatag-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jeanshepard_metatag-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/>Lorrie Morgan, Jeannie Seely, Jan Howard &#8230;\u00a0to Honor Jean Shepard at Special Tribute<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-61456\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/jeanposter.jpg\" alt=\"jeanposter\" width=\"199\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jeanposter.jpg 259w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/jeanposter-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>Country music royalty, including Lorrie Morgan, Jeannie Seely, Jan Howard, Leona Williams, Riders in the Sky and more will join together to honor Jean Shepard during an all-star performance Nov. 20 at The Nashville Palace from 7:00 \u2013 11:00pm. Tickets to the event, hosted by WSM\u2019s Eddie Stubbs, are on sale now at the low price of $20 ($25 at the door) thanks to support from Springer Mountain Farms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s one of those people who opened doors,\u201d Opry announcer and WSM DJ Eddie Stubbs said in late 2015. \u201cThere were some she had to push open and some others she had to kick her way through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jean Shepard made her first appearance in country music in 1953 with the duet \u201cA Dear John Letter.\u201d She followed that success with her hit songs \u201cA Satisfied Mind\u201d and \u201cTake Possession.\u201d In 1956, she was invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Sixty years later, she was still touring and gracing the Grand Ole Opry stage to spread the power of country music.<\/p>\n<p>In the couple of years before her passing, Jean was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and released her autobiography <em>Down Through the Years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; \u00a0Posted by Country Girl\u00a0cmtt<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorrie Morgan, Jeannie Seely, Jan Howard &#8230;\u00a0to Honor Jean Shepard at Special Tribute Country music royalty, including Lorrie Morgan, Jeannie Seely, Jan Howard, Leona Williams, Riders in the Sky and more will join together to honor Jean Shepard during an all-star performance Nov. 20 at The Nashville Palace from 7:00 \u2013 11:00pm. Tickets to the event, hosted by WSM\u2019s Eddie Stubbs, are on sale now at the low price of $20 ($25 at the door) thanks to support from Springer Mountain Farms. \u201cShe\u2019s one of those people who opened doors,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/08\/country-stars-to-honor-jean-shepard-at-tribute-show\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}