“God was watching and he knows your name / because of you, she’s forever changed.” The song was inspired by an incident in Gill’s own life. “I was not abused as a child.

And these are the songs that map out the story of country music — from Hank Williams howling at the moon to Ray Charles giving “hillbilly” music an R&B makeover to Shania Twain taking her ...

“I sang this song for my fourth-grade chorus audition,” she recalled. “I think it changed the way I saw country music and music in general. Everyone loved ‘This Kiss,’ not just country fans.

@life.with.ronnia. There was a woman he sung to last night, that was 28 months clean. That woman was in the row behind us, and I had her doll for a second and I asked who’s it was they pointed ...