Music legend Marshall Grant, an original member of Johnny Cash’s backing band The Tennessee Three, died last weekend. I had the honor of meeting him about three years ago at the Johnny Cash...
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Kate CampbellJust in time for Mother’s Day, Singer/songwriter Kate Campbell reads “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens (Ode to Poultry in Motion)” from Bert Montgomery’s book Elvis, Willie,...
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I was born in and raised just outside of New Orleans; and when my sons were little, my family and I lived in the heart of Memphis. I dearly love both of these great cities. Though I may have been born in and...
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A funny thing happened during church recently: we were invited to participate in karaoke, with the promise that everyone who sings gets a free shot of liquor. No kidding. Church + karaoke = a free shot of...
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Love God; love yourself as God loves you; and love others as you love yourself. As a Baptist minister, Ash Wednesday and the Christian season of Lent are unfamiliar things to me. But as I have tried to...
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Bert Montgomery & Oteil BurbridgeThis is the second in a two-part series dealing with the “N-word” and White guilt. Oteil Burbridge is an internationally renowned bass-guitar funkmeister who plays just...
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Wanda Stallings & Bert Montgomery(Part One: Confessing my White Guilt to my Black Pastor) I’m a white kid from the suburbs of New Orleans. I was born in 1968, just a few weeks before Martin Luther...
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Photo by Rachelle CrainEditor’s note: Since Fall 2009 Bert Montgomery, a native of New Orleans and the River Parishes, has been collecting stories from his childhood friends, classmates, neighbors and...
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Jesus was dipped by John in the Chattahoochee. That’s how Clarence Jordan’s Cotton Patch Gospels share the story of Jesus’ baptism. I wish I knew Alan Jackson; I would’ve asked him to...
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A.J.s father’s record collection drying on the front lawn.Editor’s note: Since Fall 2009 Bert Montgomery, a native of New Orleans and the River Parishes, has been collecting stories from his...
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Today is the 30th anniversary of the death of John Lennon. FaithLab’s Bert Montgomery muses about the message of John Lennon, and also thinks a bit about another “John.” The following is an...
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Kenny worked with my dad at Wand Rubber Stamp Works, Inc. For a while, my dad and Mr. Sal were business partners and co-owned Wand. Kenny and “Little” Sal (Mr. Sal’s son) worked at Wand for as long as I...
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