A hall-of-fame country and gospel musician will be performing live in Orange later this month. Jimmy Fortune, an inductee in the Gospel Music Association and Country Music Association Halls of Fame, ...
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The Statler Brothers are native sons of Staunton, Virginia. They were already establishing their spot in country music history with hits like “Flowers on the Wall,” when singer ...
Jimmy Fortune toured, sang and performed with the legendary Statler Brothers for 21 years. He joined them first as a temporary replacement for Lew DeWitt, after DeWitt heard him singing at a ski ...
Long before he was the tenor singer for the Statler Brothers and writer of such hits as “More Than a Name on a Wall,” Jimmy Fortune was a Nelson County boy. “I was a blessed person to grow up where I ...