“Oh! Yeah! A picture here!” says Alice Randall, sitting in the office of her apartment in the west end of Nashville. She gets up from her desk and grabs a blown-up, black-and-white photo that’s ...

When Alice Randall first sat down more than 30 years ago to write “The Ballad of Sally Anne” with Mark O’Connor and Harry Stinson, she wanted to use the murder ballad format to discuss a topic — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Alice Randall was writing her life story, she had no idea its eventual publication would coincide with a resurgence of ...

Alice Randall's four-decade-long legacy as one of Nashville's ultimate multi-hyphenates -- chart-topping country songwriter, legendary music publisher, award-winning author and Vanderbilt University's ...

Alice Randall has been in the world of country music for decades. Her professional career started back in the early ’80s, when she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a songwriting career and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alice Randall speaks during the Black Opry 3rd Anniversary Event at City Winery Nashville on April 25, 2024 in Nashville, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the precipice of launching a record label while continuing a nationwide barnstorming tour of songwriting rounds, the ...

Four decades have elapsed since Alice Randall — the first Black woman to write a No. 1 country single, Trisha Yearwood's 1994 hit "XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)" — arrived in Music City on March ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rhiannon Giddens is among the artists covering the songs of Alice Randall on an upcoming tribute album. - Credit: Rob ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns’ “Country Music” — 2019’s eight-part, 16-hour docuseries about the origins and history of country music — inevitably includes details about the Black contributions to what singer ...