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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Newnan’s Jacksons Coming Home
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It was already a big deal from the start: Country superstar Alan Jackson and his successful author wife, Denise, coming back to Newnan Tuesday to be given the first Richard Brooks Award — along with late writer Erskine Caldwell — for their contributions to the arts in Coweta County.
But you know, Denise has a new book out (“The Road Home”). So before the 7 p.m. ceremony April 29 at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts (1523 Lower Fayetteville Rd.) , she will be signing it and her first best-seller (“It’s All About Him”) at 2 p.m. at Scotts Books (28 S Court Square, 770-253-2960) in Newnan.
Now we just learned this afternoon that hubby will join his wife (shown above on their wedding day — everybody saw “awwww”) in the signing, offering up his “Alan Jackson” to his recent No. 1 CD, “Good Time”. It will be the first one they’ve ever done together.
Planning to make your way to Newnan this Tuesday? Or are you already there, and have known the Jacksons for years? Heard “Good Time” and/or read “The Road Home”, and if so, what grades would you give them?
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Gospel All Day And Night
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s Wednesday to you, but it’s Doves Day over at Atlanta’s Gospel Music Channel.
And in celebration of the 39th Annual GMA Dove Awards tonight at 8 p.m., GMC has been airing a Best of the Doves marathon since 7 this morning. It features some 200 performances and 130 artists from the previous 38 years of Doves, including Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Whitney Houston with the Georgia Mass Choir — remember them together for the movie/soundtrack “The Preacher’s Wife”? — BeBe and CeCe Winans, Kirk Franklin, Dolly Parton, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Yolanda Adams and our own Third Day (pictured above).
Who with hometown roots are you rooting for at the Doves tonight? GMC - which will air the broadcast live from the Grand Old Opry in Nashvile — is touted as the nation’s fastest growing television network. Are you a viewer? And if so, what do you think it does well; and perhaps, what could it improve on?
