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from the CD Life's Highway.

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Charted Billboard Singles

Jeannie placed records on Billboard's country singles
chart for 13 consecutive years from 1966 to 1978.

Life’s Highway

Jeannie Seely displays an infectious smile when she explains how her bluegrass and acoustic project has been on her “to do” list for the past several years. “I’m so happy that I was asked to make this CD,” she states. “It was a lot of fun to put it together and work with such talented people.”

Life’s Highway was released on OMS Records (www.OMSRecords.com), an independent label that features bluegrass and classic country music. The project was produced by Hugh Moore and Billy Troy.

“I’ll always be grateful to my late friend Johnny Russell for planting the seeds for this album,” notes Jeannie. “It was the last of many gifts he gave me.” OMS Records’ second release was a critically-acclaimed all-acoustic rendering of Johnny Russell’s famous song repertoire.

Jeannie enlisted the help of several friends, heroes, and Opry members as special guests on Life’s Highway. The tracks were recorded at Hilltop Studio in Nashville.

From the Opry family are the mandolin sounds of Bobby Osborne, Buck White, and Jesse McReynolds, the guitar work of Steve Wariner, the banjo pickin’ of Sonny Osborne, and the harmony vocals of Charlie Louvin, The Osborne Brothers, and The Whites.

Life’s Highway features the famous Dobro of the inimitable Josh Graves who created his sound on the Opry with Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs – and changed bluegrass and country music forever.

Rob Ickes, who has been awarded “Instrumental Performer of the Year” multiple times by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), also plays Dobro on Jeannie’s project.

Grammy and IBMA honored Glen Duncan, with literally hundreds of Opry appearances to his credit, contributes his fiddle mastery to each track on the album.

“I certainly don’t take lightly how fortunate I’ve been to be a part of the Grand Old Opry and to meet, know, listen, and work with such a talented group of country music artists that I’m also able to call my fiends,” Jeannie notes.

In recent years Jeannie’s recordings have included the duet “I’m Ready To Go” on Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Mountain Sweethearts album which earned the 2002 “Recorded Event of the Year” Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association.

Jeannie also appeared on the 2002 album Bluegrass Goes To Town: Pop Songs Bluegrass Style, singing the Janis Joplin hit “Piece Of My Heart” with John Hartford.

Life’ Highway contains two of Jeannie’s own compositions – the up tempo “Roarin’ And Runnin’” and “Call Of Kentucky”, a tune that would unquestionably win approval from her late Opry friend Bill Monroe.

Songs written by fellow Opry members and friends Bill Anderson (“Cry Myself To Sleep”) and Dolly Parton (“The Good Ole Days”) are also included. “The Next Voice You Hear” was composed by another of Jeannie’s heroes, prolific songwriter and Country Music Hall of Fame member Cindy Walker.

Jeannie dedicates A.P. Carter’s “I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight” to the memory of John and Marie Hartford. “I was asked to sing this song at their wedding and then again at the memorial for my friend Marie,” she writes in the album notes.

The legendary Ernest Tubb once said, “Whether a new song or an old one, when Jeannie sings it, it becomes 'Jeannie's song'.” Jeannie lives up to that assessment on songs ranging from the ‘90’s Garth Brooks’ hit “The River” to the ever-classic “I’ve Got My Baby On My Mind”.

Jeannie provides a captivating rendition of “It’s A Heartache”, a tune made popular in the 1980’s by both Bonnie Tyler and Juice Newton. With its catching arrangement on Life’s Highway, the song has been afforded a whole new life.

“I’ve always had the highest respect for the harmony of bluegrass music,” Jeannie states. With harmony vocal assistance from friends Sharon and Cheryl White, Jeannie revisits the Whites’ own 1985 hit, “If It Ain’t Love”.

On the title track, Jeannie takes Steve Wariner’s No.1 hit from 1986 for a ride on her own acoustic journey – with some assistance from Steve himself on guitar.

“I’m extremely proud of all the musicians and artists who contributed their talent to this project”, summarizes Jeannie. “I am truly grateful that our paths crossed on Life’s Highway.

On November 15, 2003, OMS Records held a “CD Release Party” for Life’s Highway in conjunction with the weekly broadcast of the world-famous Midnite Jamboree. Jeannie served as host of the Jamboree and welcomed a long list of special guests that included Charlie Louvin, Jennifer O’Brien, Terri Williams, Uncle Josh Graves, Hugh Moore, Billy Troy, Jean Shepard, and Jack Greene.

Discography

Charted Billboard Singles

Albums, Cassettes, and CDs

Jeannie Seely Vocals Appear
On The Following Additional Recordings:

Life’s Highway

Discography

Charted Billboard Singles

Albums, Cassettes, and CDs

Jeannie Seely Vocals Appear On The Following Additional Recordings:

Life’s Highway

Jeannie Seely Vocals Appear
On The Following Additional Recordings: