Postcards Magazine: Montgomery County Edition, Dec-Jan

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WHAT DO... A Pop/R&B Singer

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PC: What have you found to be your most popular selling album or CD?

A Nobel Prize Winner

HAVE IN COMMON?

Montessori Beyonce Knowles

9 America Pop/R&B singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer. 9 Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she attended St. Mary of the Purification Montessori School for her elementary years

the Year 2012, and a cut from the CD, “When I Grow Too Old to Dream,” is up for song of the year. The award ceremonies are held in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in February. (Good luck at the awards show, guys!)

TH: The first one we recorded for the River Road Boys was, “The Twin Fiddles of Bob White & Clyde Brewer.” It’s all instrumental, but—to this day—it’s still one of the best-selling albums we’ve ever done, and we’ve also put all of our albums into CDs since then. PC: Tell our readers about the current band members now, those who’ve been the mainstay for so many years. TH: I’m on drums and background vocals; Bill Dessens on fiddle, guitar, tenor banjo, and background vocals; Shelly Lee Alley, Jr. on guitar and background vocals; Jim

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

9 Nobel Prize winner for Literature 9 Attended Montessori de Aracataca for 5 years. 9 Credits his time there with making him fall in love with language and gave him the desire not only to kiss, taste, and see literature, but to write it.

Mo

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above: Ralph "Dusty" Stewart plays steel guitar

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Right: Bill Dessens goes to town on the fiddle


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