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On Mother’s Day, we salute the ones who did it their way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Daddy, Reverend Raymond Jones, took this picture on a Sunday morning in 1953 in\u00a0 a little town in Arkansas<\/div>\n
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That’s Mother, the pastor’s wife. That’s me holding the baby and there’s my brother, who’d just lost another battle about wearing a suit to Sunday School.<\/div>\n
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This next picture is also Mother, “Sister Fern” Jones, the songwriter\/singer in her natural habitat.<\/div>\n
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Click the link below to hear her version of “Precious Lord.” I like the musical conversations between Mother and guitar virtuoso, Hank Garland, during Nashville recording sessions in the late ’50s.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“Precious Lord” https:\/\/youtu.be\/xUXZJHwVEv8?si=PDrZumFGC4LFplu2<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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